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I did intend to sit down and compose an orchestral epic. I really, really DID, honest. Could I help it that as soon as I made that decision, the saxes started up a 1920s tea dance in my computer?! Only it’s not all sweetness and light and good ol’ days, in fact it sometimes gets a little murky in there, to say the least…

• Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps; computer-set 

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• Two works by Yvette Audain 

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I did intend to sit down and compose an orchestral epic. I really, really DID, honest. Could I help it that as soon as I made that decision, the saxes started up a 1920s tea dance in my computer?! Only it’s not all sweetness and light and good ol’ days, in fact it sometimes gets a little murky in there, to say the least…

• Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps – alto sax quartet version; computer set 

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• Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps – alto sax quartet version; computer set 

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• Yvette Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps – alto sax quartet version; video 

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• Lardelli: Arrangements; computer set 

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• Dylan Lardelli: Arrangements; audio 

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• Burch: Capriccio for Four Saxophones; facsimile 

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• Burch: Capriccio for four saxophones; facsimile 

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• Chamber Works Vol 1 (NZ Composers Edition) 

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 2  Year: 1972 

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• Saxcess 10th Anniversary  Year: 2002 

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eight pieces for wind quartet was inspired by Ligeti’s extraordinary, dramatic work Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet, and my eight pieces uses this work as a model, where movements alternate between slow-moving, cloud-like textures and jittery, virtuosic interjections. The fragments of melody are constantly reaching outwards, the tense, at times nightmarish, harmonic language constantly straining, edging towards the elusive octave. Within the twelve-tone framework I wanted to create as much diversity and flexibility as possible, always keeping a tension between motion and stasis. Each piece is a kind of elaboration of the same melodic idea, a blueprint that is constructed differently each time, like seemingly unrelated episodes in a dream. Below is a short poem that I think embodies the miniature nature of each piece and the work as a whole.

miniature

if a dream came to you
you might catch it, hold it,
sculpt from it an elaborate

memory, the husk of a rushed
feeling, the miniature
interior of a moment

- alex taylor

• Taylor: eight pieces for wind quartet; computer-set 

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• New Zealand Music for Woodwind 

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• Holmes: Flute Quartet; facsimile 

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• Norris: Honk!; computer-set 

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• Norris: Honk!; computer-set  Year: 2003 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 7 - Emerging Composers  Year: 2003 

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Huff is both the act of exhaling, and the sound of air moving through a wind instrument. The piece starts as a saxophonist would: after the instrument comes out of its case and gets put together, the first thing the player does is blow warm air.

I wanted to write something that would work for both professional quartets such as Saxcess, and proficient school ensembles in both SATB and AATB formation. As a composition, it didn’t come together straight away: the 12/8 time signature sidetracked me into a maniacal type of Mexican banda music, which turned into a work called Banda Chiflada. That and Huff are very different in character, but they are still two pieces cut from the same compound time cloth.

• Ellis: Huff; computer set 

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Improbable Mechanism is dedicated to the Bellatrix Recorder Quartet. The title conjures Heironymus Bosch and Heath Robinson in equal measure: it is an elaborate mechanical contrivance, serving no discernible purpose; a rough assemblage of phrases on the verge of grammatical expression. Simultaneous mechanistic processes are used to generate material, and much of the music lies in the friction between the these layers. Through this there is an undercurrent of melodic outbursts, further subverted by quotations from the composer’s idiosyncratic recorder improvisations.

• Brownlee: Improbable Mechanism; computer-set 

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• Brownlee: Improbable Mechanism; computer-set 

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• Brownlee: Improbable Mechanism; computer-set 

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• Brownlee: Improbable Mechanism; computer-set 

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• Philip Brownlee: Improbable Mechanism; audio 

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• Margetic: Rarefaction Game; computer set 

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