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Patrick Shepherd  

Intrada

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1994
for four trombones, timpani and recorded tape

Chris Watson  

Jangeran

Duration: 09' 30" Year: 2005
for orchestra and gamelan

  • Instrumentation
    2222; 4331; gamelan; perc; strings gamelan: suling, kendang, ceng ceng, gongs, 2 gangsa, 2 calung
  • Programme Note

    Jangeran seeks to bridge the musical gap between East and West: a Balinese melody is appropriated by the Western orchestra and is recast in a range of Western contexts. At various points a gamelan ensemble, embedded in the Western orchestra, emerges and reasserts ownership of the musical source materials while at other times the two bodies combine to explore new and strange syntheses of culture, movement and soundworlds.

    Jangeran was commissioned and premiered by the Nusantara Symphony Orchestra in Jakarta in May 2005, conductor Edward Van Ness, with further performances in Osaka and Tokyo, Yogyakarta and Jakarta.

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Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Kihikihi

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1998
for orchestra of flexible instrumentation and tape

  • Instrumentation
    fls(recs),obs(rec),cls (saxs), bsns (b.cls); tpts (saxes/hns) tbns (hns/tubas), piano, 2 perc, strings, tape (most players need extra percussion)
  • Programme Note

    Kihikihi was written for an amateur orchestra with players of widely different abilities, therefore it is suitable for anything from a secondary school to a professional symphony orchestra. The conductor must have a suitably theatrical approach.

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Chris Adams  

Mad Cow Farmers' Disease (Jazz Band version)

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2011
An arrangement for Jazz Band by the composer of the original for mixed ensemble of 9 players.

  • Instrumentation
    Jazz Band: 2,2,1;4;4; Pno, Drums, Bass
  • Programme Note

    When Silencio Ensemble asked me to write the original piece, it was suggested that I write something inspired by or relevant to Canterbury – one possibility being a piece inspired by the landscape. In a funny kind of way, Mad Cow-Farmer’s Disease is inspired by the landscape – going to a Canterbury river and seeing the signs that say “Do Not Swim” or another where cows are loose in the riverbed and cow shit is all over the place.

    It is inspired by dry riverbeds surrounded by farms with pumps constantly irrigating the land – the premise being that any ounce of water that makes it to the sea is wasted. These same farmers, self-titled “environmentalists,” use hypothetical science to justify their wanton destruction of the natural environment.

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Ross Carey  

Medicine Bundle (No. 2)

 Year: 2003
for any number of performers, and allowing for varying page orientation

  • Instrumentation
    unspecified instruments and for any number of performers
  • Programme Note

    A medicine bundle is part of the traditional teachings and practices of the First Nations peoples of North America. The title of the first Medicine Bundle piece, which I wrote as one of the many invited composers worldwide to contribute a piece for pianist Ananda Sukarlan’s Concerts for Bali commemorating the Bali bombing of October 2002, was my response to an article published in the Toronto Star, where an elder of the Six Nations Reserve of southern Ontario spoke of a ‘medicine bundle’ found within each of us; a place of healing and transformation which we can tap into in times of strife and need. I envisaged the bundle in this case as a bundle of notes from which the performer(s) can freely bring their own sensitivities, experiences and responses to the work’s realisation.

    The score consists of one page allowing for a varying page orientation.

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Ross Carey  

Medicine Bundle (No. 4)

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2005
for any number of pianists playing in unison

  • Programme Note

    A medicine bundle is part of the traditional teachings and practices of the First Nations peoples of North America. The title of the first Medicine Bundle piece, which I wrote as one of the many invited composers worldwide to contribute a piece for pianist Ananda Sukarlan’s Concerts for Bali commemorating the Bali bombing of October 2002, was my response to an article published in the Toronto Star, where an elder of the Six Nations Reserve of southern Ontario spoke of a “medicine bundle” found within each of us; a place of healing and transformation which we can tap into in times of strife and need. I envisaged the bundle in the three previous Medicine Bundle pieces as consisting of a bundle of notes from which the performer(s) can freely bring their own sensitivities, experiences and responses to the work’s realisation. Unlike my other medicine bundle pieces however, this Medicine Bundle does not allow for different realisations of the score – instead, the focus is on the different voices “speaking together” in a common tongue.

    ‘Medicine Bundle’ was first performed in a version for solo piano by Ross Carey at the Dunedin Composers’ Group concert in August 2005.

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Anton Killin  

Melody for Violin and Yangqin

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2010
for violin and yangqin (dulcimer)

Ray Twomey  

Music for Harpsichord (Opus16b)

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1998
for harpsichord

Yvette Audain  

O'Jonathan's Concerto

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2001
concerto for recorder and strings orchestra

David Farquhar  

Palindrome

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1994
for flute and tape