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John Rimmer  

Beyond the saying

Duration: 21' 00" Year: 1990
electronic music

Michael Norris  

Chrysalis

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1996
for flute and tape

John Rimmer  

Crow

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1991
for oboe and electronic sounds

John Elmsly  

Drift

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1994
for viola and tape

  • Programme Note

    The electronic part for this work was prepared in the computer music studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, using real-time granular synthesis to process samples produced by the viola. A small resource of bowed and plucked sounds has been treated in this way to produce a large-scale mosaic of sounds to background the solo viola part, which explores playing techniques involving small changes, drifts, in pitch. For instance the opening is played with the fingers in closer than normal position to produce rhythmic patterns on very small intervals, a technique which recurs as a sort of technical motto throughout, and later material makes considerable use of much larger slides to produce a very fluid melody in the upper reaches of the instrument.

    The first performance was given by violist David Nalden in the
    ExtravaCANZa festival at Victoria University of Wellington in November 1994. David Nalden describes ‘Drift’ as ‘a vast soundscape of seemingly infinite varieties of colour, pitch and rhythm which bore as much resemblance to the sequence of sounds in my initial recording as a luxuriant garden to a handful of seeds which had given it its existence.’

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John Rimmer  

Galileo

Duration: 1h 30' 00" Year: 1998
a chamber opera using for 6 singers, small chorus and 8 players, also using electroacoustic music and DVD of visuals

  • Instrumentation
    Television newsreader (spoken voice), Nobelman (baritone), Castelli (tenor), Galileo (baritone), Boy/Angel (mezzo soprano), Three Priests (tenor/baritones), Heretic (baritone), Christina (soprano), Military Man (baritone), Sea Captain (baritone), Troubadour (mezzo soprano), Cardinal Bellarmino (tenor), Pope Urban VIII (bass baritone), Pope John Paul II (baritone), small chorus of townspeople; flute doubling piccolo, oboe, clarinet doubling bass clarinet, horn, piano, percussion, violin and cello. Electroacoustic music played through at least eight loudspeakers. DVD of visuals.
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Peter Scholes (composer)  

Islands II for solo clarinet

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1992
for solo clarinet with midi controlled electronics

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Kihikihi

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1998
for orchestra of flexible instrumentation and tape

  • Instrumentation
    fls(recs),obs(rec),cls (saxs), bsns (b.cls); tpts (saxes/hns) tbns (hns/tubas), piano, 2 perc, strings, tape (most players need extra percussion)
  • Programme Note

    Kihikihi was written for an amateur orchestra with players of widely different abilities, therefore it is suitable for anything from a secondary school to a professional symphony orchestra. The conductor must have a suitably theatrical approach.

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David Farquhar  

Palindrome

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1994
for flute and tape

Neville Hall  

Reflexive

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1991
for alto saxophone and electronic sounds

  • Programme Note

    The sound of the saxophone has been processed by computer to create a dark and exaggerated sound world. The live saxophone spars with this new environment, sometimes aligning itself with, and sometimes divorcing itself from the electronic backdrop. Throughout, however, the instrument has only been reacting to a reflection of itself.

    The tape part of this work was composed in the University of Auckland EMS and is comprised of computer modifications of a single saxophone gesture. This work won first prize in The University of Auckland Composition Prize Competition in l991 and received a “Mentione d’Onore” in the 16th Concorso Internationale “Luigi Russolo”, Varese, Italy in 1994. It has been frequently performed in New Zealand, Australia, USA and Europe.

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Jeni Little  

Shanti

Duration: 04' 09" Year: 1999
for 4-part vocal group with digital soundscape

  • Programme Note

    Shanti is an electroacoustic work and an elegy. It is dedicated to four people – my close friend David who died from skin cancer in 1991; Georgia who died in 1997, a past student who was killed in a motorbike accident; my Nana who died in 1997; and Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn who also died in 1997, the world’s finest Qawaali singer from Pakistan.


    All of these deaths had a strong impact on me and inspired the composition of this work. Each of the dedicatees has a section (or verse) which refers directly to them. The piece ends with a life-affirming coda – the simple act of having the sun on our back always makes us feel better. The backing track is a digital soundscape with manipulated vocals layered throughout.

    Jeni Little

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