SOUNZ

David Hamilton

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1987

Instrumentation
for SATB choir and orchestra, 3232, 3331, Timpani, 3 Percussion, Piano, Strings
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Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1987
for SATB choir and organ

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1987
for flute and SSA choir

Programme Note

Five Vignettes of Women was commissioned in December 1987 by Christchurch flautist, Rebecca Steel, and was first performed by her in April 1988 with a women’s choir conducted by the composer. Each work has a subtitle and the texts are taken from the writings of the subject of each song: Virginia Woolf, Olivia Spencer-Brown, Robin Hyde, Fanny Buss and Katherine Mansfield.
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- Dorothy Buchanan: Olivia from Five Vignettes of Women; Con Brio; video
  
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- Music for Vienna: Bel Canto Choir
  
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- The Big Sing Finale 2005 Year: 2005
  
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Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1987
for SSA voices (ad lib) and chamber orchestra

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1987
for 16 voices, SATB and 4 unpitched gongs

Programme Note

Saouah! is a nightscape – sounds having the fleet and fluid disembodied quality of sounds overheard at night, snatches of human melody, clusters of close pitches with the hazy quality of sounds on the threshold of hearing. Separating the groups of singers allows me to play with sound as movement, to send syllables darting across the space, or circling and reversing direction.

Sound changes, not always predictably, as it travels across water, which interests me very much, and at first I planned to literally move the groups of singers around, to have them glide, silently changing position. But there seemed much to explore simply in designing paths for the sounds to travel from group to group, without complicating things with a choreography of boats.

Many of the words used in the text I invented for their sonic properties. The title derives from the onomatopoeic Samoan words which describes a speeding car’s swoosh – saoasaoa.

Annea Lockwood
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