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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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• Biddington: A New Zealand Fable; computer set  Year: 2007 

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• A New Zealand Fable - Eric Biddington  Year: 2008 

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For some reason we never seem to fully escape our formative influences. In this case it is the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s 1959 Time Out album, featuring the smooth, lyrical alto saxophone sound of Paul Desmond, as well as time signatures not yet widely heard by the general public on a jazz recording.

Why Grooves Unspoken? Because we do not speak music, we play (or sing) it.

• Audain: Grooves Unspoken; tenor or soprano saxophone version; computer-set 

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• Audain: Grooves Unspoke; tenor or soprano saxophone version; computer-set 

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• Audain: Grooves Unspoken; alto or baritone version; computer-set 

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• Audain: Grooves Unspoken; alto or baritone version; computer-set 

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• Yvette Audain: Grooves Unspoken 

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Hawk: Seeking dust from a distant sun.

• Hunt: Three Quirky Microscores for Clarinet Quartet; computer-set 

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• Hunt: Three Quirky Microscores & A Flock of Fleeting Microscores; computer set 

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• Natalie Hunt: Hawk; audio 

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• Microscore Madness! - the New Zealand Clarinet Quartet 

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January. Everything stops. Ah well, write a piece about it.

• Audain: January Blues; computer-set 

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• Audain: January Blues; computer-set 

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• Audain: January Blues; computer-set 

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Stop! Kaka-time.

• Hunt: Three Quirky Microscores & A Flock of Fleeting Microscores; computer set 

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• Hunt: Three Quirky Microscores for Clarinet Quartet; computer-set 

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• Natalie Hunt: Kaka; audio 

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Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.

• Hunt: Three Quirky Microscores & A Flock of Fleeting Microscores; computer set 

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• Hunt: Three Quirky Microscores for Clarinet Quartet; computer-set 

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• Natalie Hunt: Kawau; audio 

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• Microscore Madness! - the New Zealand Clarinet Quartet 

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• Wilby: Lagu; computer-set 

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• Biddington: Lincoln Green Suite; computer-set 

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• Eric Biddington: Tunes and Airs  Year: 1998 

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This work was purpose-written upon request from one of the schools I work in, as a companion piece for my solo work Hazine (Treasure). The musical material here needed to be in a similar vein: that is, using exotic modality in a Middle Eastern/Mediterranean style, which in this case alternates with a more jazz-fusion-based, contemporary sound.

The title originates from a tale by the great storyteller Nasreddin Hoca, called ‘Hide and Seek’. The protagonist says at the end “If you do not look in your own heart first, then you will not find wisdom”. My work consists of 5 short, intuitively-composed ‘meditations’, linked together by either solo saxophone cadenza-like passages, or pianistic interludes.

To reflect a little upon the purpose of this work’s composition, the last of said meditations is actually ‘old wine in new bottles’, so to speak: it revamps and then develops, in a written-out improvisation, a melody and accompaniment I composed when in my final year of high school, seeing as I was writing this for an advanced student in their own final year of high school.

Yvette Audain

• Audain: Meditations Upon Nasreddin Hoca; computer-set 

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• Audain: Meditations Upon Nasreddin Hoca; computer-set 

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