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Dorothy Ker  

[...and...11]

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2002, r. 2006
for twelve players

  • Instrumentation
    alto flute/piccolo; clarinet in A; bass clarinet/small bamboo chimes to hang on music stand; horn in F/small bamboo chimes to hang on music stand; bass trombone/small bamboo chimes tohang on music stand; percussion: 2 suspended cymbals, hihat, sizzle cymbal, 3 toms, medium bass drum, 3 woodblocks, three sets of maracas, bamboo or wood chimes; harp; violin;viola; cello and bass
  • Programme Note

    In this work, cycles of accumulation and decay move in broad wave-like gestures, recalling the sea. I am fascinated by the potency of the tiniest gesture, syllable or phoneme. Having no ‘meaning’ in itself, the syllable ‘and’ is weightless and transient, yet holds enormous power to link ideas; to create anticipation/momentum. It is like a wave bearing thought towards utterance. …and…11 was composed for, and is dedicated to, Chachi and Lontano.

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Chris Gendall  

Bop

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2003
for solo trombone and chamber ensemble

Chris Adams  

Chamber Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Contrabassoon/Bassoon

Duration: 08' 30" Year: 2010
for tenor saxophone, contrabassoon/bassoon and ensemble

Stephan Schulz  

Dolphin Overture of Land and Sea

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1991
for wind, brass, percussion and tape

James Gardner  

Fetish Effigies

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2000
for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass

  • Instrumentation
    flute (doubles picc. and alto fl.); oboe (doubles cor anglais); B flat clarinet; horn in F; 1 percussion: marimba, vibraphone, bass drum, tam tam, sandpaper blocks and percussion cluster
  • Programme Note

    “The boundary between collection and fetishism is mediated by classification and display in tension with accumulation and secrecy.” Two musical strands run virtually throughout this short piece, sometimes clearly differentiated, at other times more obscure and confused, but always at some level presenting an opposition between an ‘organic’, accretional layer and an ‘inorganic’ abruptly changing one. This opposition can operate not only at surface level – as it does at the beginning, when two highly differentiated instrumental combinations are presented, each with their own characteristic modes of behaviour – but also at a subcutaneous level, when applied to various ways of generating or modifying the basic material. These concerns form only the technical armature and implementation of the piece, of course, and much of the original musical imagery was suggested by Borges’ short story The Circular Ruins.

    While giving the obligatory (questionable?) disclaimer about the piece in no way being programmatic, much of the mood and atmosphere of the story was certainly in my mind during the initial sketching stages, and it seems to me that its central conceit – one human dreaming another into existence, by sheer will – is a marvellous metaphor for the act of composition.

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Dylan Lardelli  

Four Fragments

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2002, r. 2003
for large chamber ensemble

William Harsono  

Gelora

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2003
for Indonesian zither and 10-piece chamber ensemble

Mark Langford  

Geoffrey-a motley feathered duck-glimpses distantly and ponders.

 Year: 1994
for wind and percussion

Michael Norris  

Icons and Artifice

 Year: 2007
for bass clarinet duo, ensemble and electronics

Brigid Ursula Bisley  

In Memoriam

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 2004
for ensemble, taonga puoro, and voices

  • Instrumentation
    2 fl. (dbl. alto flute, 2 players), oboe (dbl. cor anglais, 1 player), clarinets (1), piano, percussion (1 player: vibraphone, triangle, maracas, rainsticks, 3 gongs of different sizes, small tambourine), drumkit, violins (2), viola, cellos (2), bass, taonga puoro: wooden koauau, iwi kuri, iwi maire, large putorino, putatara, porotiti, birdcalls; 1-2 baroque sopranos, 1 chamber soprano, 1 Maori female voice (alto range)
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