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Bliss Mechanism is a play with the concept of false/true emotional states. The goal is to express a sense of irony contrasted with glimpses of deeper, more spacious, spontaneous/authentic emotion. Irony and pathos are the two principle ideas at play. The emergence of one conquering the other is an import aspect of the piece. The fast rhythmic sections should be played with a relentless, almost desperately positive, energy.

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“Have you ever lost your mouth or anything in that small area… your lips, your teeth, your tongue, your tonsils? The throat … everything around there. You’d be in deep stew, yes. … " Patti Labelle, Moon Shadow

Listening to the Hammond-centred sound of the Peddlers in my parents’ car in 1974, I’d feel positively queasy. Ransacking my Dad’s cassette collection a few years, I stumbled across some of this old ‘driving music’. Somehow I no longer felt nauseous when I listened to it. Around the same time I bought my brother a collection of Rare Groove for his 30th birthday. One of the stand-out tracks is of Patti Labelle singing her version of Cat Stevens’ Moonshadow. The central section is an insanely long rant by Labelle in which each of the musicians solo (including a fabulous Hammond improv). Deep Stew takes it title and its spirit from this crazy sequence of what if’s.

Commissioned by the Composers’ Association of New Zealand with funds from the QEII Arts Council, Deep Stew was premiered in 1994 at Wellington Town Hall, New Zealand and revised in 1997. The Bang on a Can All-Stars gave the work its American premiere in 1995 at New York’s Lincoln Center.

The current arrangement (1997) is a new revised version written especially for the California EAR Unit.

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This piece is a musical foundry. My focus is on metal: sawn, hammered, melted, poured, moulded, cast, polished… The melodic material is based on pitch analyses of the sounds of drilling, hammering and sawing. I want to melt the material down to a metallic gleam. Foundry was commissioned by Continuum with funds from the Laidlaw Foundation.

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In 1987 the composer visited China and searched out the music of some of China’s so-called minority peoples. Field records made on this visit form the core of the work: the instrumental writing is mean as an enchancing backdrop to direct our listening to the ‘interior’ of the music.
First is heard to long-ge, a three-bladed Jews harp of the Yi nationality (Sichuan province). Next three women of the Miao nationality (Guizhou province) sing a melody of strong character with long notes and leaping intervals further enhanced by the gradual melting into a unison. The words mean “though we die, our songs like mountains, go on forever”. Finally we hear an ensemble of lusheng played by youths of the Ge nationality (Guizhou province) accompanying a dance. This six-piped bamboo mouth organ is common in the south of China and is found in various forms throughout Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and parts of Indonesia.

Notes taken from Ritual Auras, Atoll CD (ACD 842)

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• Ritual Auras - Karlheinz Company  Year: 2011 

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Le Marteau du Destin is a collection of haiku set for female voice with chamber ensemble. It is in five movements. The texts were taken from Japanese poets and were chosen because of their association with nature.

“Before this autumn wind/ Even the shadows of mountains/ Shudder and tremble”-Issa

“When I went out/ In the spring meadows/ To gather violets, I enjoyed myself/ So much that I stayed all night” – Akahito

“The long, long river/ A single line/ On the snowy plain” – Boncho

“Gathering wild strawberries/ My humble treat” – Basho

“O autumn winds,/ Tell me where I’m bound, to which/particular hell” – Issa

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Early in 2001, I was elated at the arrival of my first child, George. Observing him grow and develop in the last 6 months has rekindled the vague memories and nebulous feelings from my own early life, and has prompted me to wonder what memories, feelings, sights and smells etc he will remember in years to come. I am sure that these musings are not new and have occurred millions of times for many millennia, but I have still found them rather special. Perhaps the slower parts of the piece portray a nostalgic and retrospective perspective, and perhaps the faster gestures depict some animated conversations as heard by a newborn.

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The nacelle is the main body of the top portion of a modern wind turbine, an enclosure housing an electrical generator, power control equipment, disc brakes and a gearbox. Rotating on its tower to constantly face the prevailing breeze and responding to wind force by setting thresholds for propeller speed, the nacelle is the brains of the operation. Nacelle continues my exploration of metric modulation and its relation to the movement and behaviour of machines, though with the added element of a soloist, who steers the music’s path through different tempi as well as defining the direction of the music’s texture and language; the soloist is the brains of the operation. Two cadenzas allow for an escape from the rigours of the metric scheme, where a subjective take on the timing of proceedings is permitted.

In 2003 I lived close to Wellington’s wind turbine and indulged in regular walks to the landmark.

Nacelle was performed in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland by 175 East in April and May of 2003 with solo clarinetist Gretchen Dunsmore.

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• Chris Watson: Nacelle and Don't Mess with Texas  Year: 2003 

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Fragmentary recollections of beginnings… Miro’s Ladder of Escape: opaque clouds of colour shift enigmatically, lines moving in the foreground with muscular vigour. Brooklyn: walking down my street, summertime, big American cars pulse by me with big stereo sounds. Metal muscle. Travels in Hyperreality: Umberto Eco writes about the transforning effect of wearing jeans on one’s consciousness. Skirt: the edge of things, it is what it does, a feisty/frilly word.

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• Music by Juliet Palmer  Year: 1990 

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The Ripple Effect

In this work one instrument, the horn, gradually triggers musical turbulences and dominates the ensemble. Consequently the music becomes increasingly virtuosic. The calm mood of the beginning is transformed into rhythmic and flamboyant textures as the ‘ripple effect’ grows and takes over.

The Ripple Effect was composed in 1995 and received its first performance in October 1996 at the Music Theatre, University of Auckland by the Karlheinz Company conducted by John Elmsly.

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that moment before you understand from silence stillness
fractured by activity no words memories accumulate
from growth comes from lumps of time mounds of
moments stillness interrupted by activity signifying?
remembering before understanding time accumulates

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• the way time accumulates 

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