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Juliet Palmer  

5 Cactus Dreams

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1988
for voice and chamber ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    vocalist, oboe, tenor saxophone, viola, cello, cactus and camera flash. Performed in darkness with light flashes to trigger each movement - performers also walk while playing.
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Maria Grenfell  

A Feather of Blue

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2000
for piano trio

  • Programme Note

    Commissioned in 2000 by the NZTrio, A Feather of Blue takes its title from a phrase in a poem called A View From A Window by New Zealand writer Kevin Ireland. I have always admired the wry humour and brightness of Kevin Ireland’s writing and many years ago set three of his poems for soprano and mixed ensemble. As a kind gesture Mr Ireland sent me a copy of his book of poems Skinning A Fish, and I was particularly struck by the imagery of colours, flowers, feathers and birds in this poem, which illustrates rain pouring down a window pane and giving way to a burst of sunshine after a storm.

    Maria Grenfell

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Robbie Ellis  

Alla Marcia Brady

Duration: 05' 00" (can vary) Year: 2012
for a whole bunch of wind & brass

  • Programme Note

    alla marcia – adv. As a musical direction: in the style of a march. Also as adj., n. (Source: Oxford English Dictionary.)
    Marcia Brady – A character from the 1969-1974 American television series The Brady Bunch. (Source: Wikipedia.)

    General instructions/suggestions include:
    - Gather a dozen or so wind and brass players. Have them memorise this music.
    - The players should walk one by one from off-stage to on-stage.
    - If possible, have them do a complete circuit across the stage, off the other side, through the backstage area, then back onto the stage through the original entry point.
    - I encourage the use of surprising points of entry, e.g. balconies, strange doors, trapdoors, zip lines, time machines.
    - Optional: incorporate the theme tune to The Brady Bunch in Bb major.

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Jack Body  

Arum Manis

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1991
for string quartet and tape

  • Programme Note

    An unusual work combining field recordings of fiddle music played by an Indonesian street-seller of candy-floss (in Indonesian, "arum manis, meaning “sweet aroma”) with a string quartet. The listeners’ ears are charmed by music which passes seamlessly between the tape and the live performers. Composed for the Kronos Quartet, this work was presented at the 1996 International Rostrum of Composers.

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Jonathan Crehan  

At the Breaking Point

Duration: 06' 30" Year: 2008
for piano trio

Samuel Holloway  

Austerity Measures

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2012
for recorder, koto and guitar

John Rimmer  

Burning the Calories

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2006
for piano trio

Kit Powell  

Chance Piece for Oboe and Tape

Duration: 07' 30" Year: 2008, r. 2009
for oboe and tape

Jason Long  

Cimmerian Cerulean Orb

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2010
for tuba and live electronics

  • Programme Note

    Cimmerian Cerulean Orb was inspired by the image of our small planet as seen from the outer edges of the solar system, and the idea of its past (or potential future) existence without life. A variety of effects and extended techniques were used to represent some of the sounds of our elements – air, water, fire, earth, combined with certain electronic manipulations that signify the planet’s connection with the cosmos. A structure of sparsity with extended soft sections expresses the desolateness of the expanse, sometimes interupted with violent outbursts.

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John Rimmer  

Composition 1

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1968
for horn and electronic sounds