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When Silencio Ensemble asked me to write the original piece, it was suggested that I write something inspired by or relevant to Canterbury – one possibility being a piece inspired by the landscape. In a funny kind of way, Mad Cow-Farmer’s Disease is inspired by the landscape – going to a Canterbury river and seeing the signs that say “Do Not Swim” or another where cows are loose in the riverbed and cow shit is all over the place.

It is inspired by dry riverbeds surrounded by farms with pumps constantly irrigating the land – the premise being that any ounce of water that makes it to the sea is wasted. These same farmers, self-titled “environmentalists,” use hypothetical science to justify their wanton destruction of the natural environment.

• Chris Adams: Mad Cow Farmers' Disease (Jazz Band version) - hardcopy score & parts 

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• Chris Adams: Mad Cow Farmers' Disease (Jazz Band version) - downloadable PDF 

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‘Voices of Tane’ (1976) was the first piece I wrote on my first return to New Zealand after nine years away. It was written for my sister, Joyce Whitehead, to play at the Registered Music Teachers’ Conference in Auckland that year. A series of seven short piano pieces, written with children in mind (although some of them are difficult for children to play), was written for my godson, Kit Boyes. There is little to say about the pieces themselves except that the last repeats the first, the third has to do with birdsong, the fifth with the wind, and the sixth consists of nine ideas that the pianist plays in whatever sequence she or he wishes.

• Whitehead: Voices of Tane; computer-set 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Voices of Tane; audio 

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A one movement work composed for the Silencio Ensemble for the Canterbury Composers Series.


This piece in three main sections features the piano, saxophone and flute respectively, each section is derived from similar material but differs in its texture. The two outer sections are cloudy, sustained and expressive. The middle section is more jazz like with the ensemble playing together behind an improvised saxophone solo. The piano divides the sections with strong forceful material to insert depth and weight into a piece which has a very refined, reserved and obscure quality much like being on a canvas.

• van den Broek: White and Pink on Light Red; computer-set 

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• van den Broek: White and Pink on Light Red; computer-set 

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• Alex van den Broek: White and Pink on Light Red 

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• Silencio - New Music Ensemble - Canterbury Composers 2008 

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