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Peter Scholes (composer)  

Time For Three

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1986, r. 1988
for amplified clarinet, percussionist and drum machine

  • Instrumentation
    It is for amplified clarinet (with Ibanez Digital Delay DM1100), percussionist and drum machine (Roland TR606). It is for two human performers and a machine.
  • Programme Note

    It is for amplified clarinet (with Ibanez Digital Delay DM1100), percussionist and drum machine (Roland TR606). It is for two human performers and a machine.
    After extensive use of realtime signal processing during live performances with Ivan Zagni, Peter Scholes composed this piece for a series of concerts and a Radio New Zealand recording with percussionist Bruce McKinnon. The music contrasts the human performers with the mechanical precision of the drum machine. Sometimes the clarinet or the drum machine are processed through a delay device, the settings of which are varied throughout the piece to create different delay times and feedback effects.

    The use of real time signal processing was also used by the composer in his composition “Islands II” which represented New Zealand in the 1993 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers.
    Later, Peter Scholes composed “Bonk” for Bruce McKinnon and the NZSO.

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Chloe Moon  

Trio

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1983
for clarinet, viola and cello

John Charles  

Utu

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1987
suite for orchestra adapted from incidental music for the film Utu (1982)

Ross Harris  

Variation

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1983
for solo piano

  • Programme Note

    Written at Waikanae beach, ‘Variation’ was inspired by the natural environment. Rapidly evolving, elaborate patterns are a feature of the work. Chromatic textures reflect wind and surf, swirling, then pause for breath before hurtling off again, intentionally avoiding metered structures. Harris has always viewed the work as a ‘New Zealand piece’, although commentators from the period labelled it as belonging to the European art music tradition. The artist’s response: “I was thinking about New Zealand things. Sea, wind”. David Guerin gave the first performance of ‘Variation’ in 1982, but the technical challenges of the work have meant that it has seen few performances since.

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Lyell Cresswell  

Variations on a Theme by Charles Ives

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1987
for flute and cello

David Farquhar  

Waiata Maori

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1985
for SATB choir

Peter Scholes (composer)  

Wireless for Clarinet

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1987
for solo clarinet

John Rimmer  

With the Current

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1986
for flute, cello, percussion and piano