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Jeni Little  

Betwixt

Duration: 00' 30" Year: 1999
for flute, bass clarinet, bass trombone, cello and double bass

Martin Lodge  

Cantus Intus

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1980
intuitive music for piano or other solo instrument

James Gardner  

Charge

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1997, r. 1999
for any member of the oboe family

  • Programme Note

    This short piece was written as a twenty-first birthday present for clarinettist Esther Smaill. The melodic fragment heard at the outset soon skitters over its own unstable surface, mutates into fanfare-like repetitions, is spliced with momentary cantabile inserts, is interrupted by slow motion signposts, and blows itself out in a final burst of energy.

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James Gardner  

Charge

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1997
for any member of the clarinet family

Ray Twomey  

Cinc! (Opus 5)

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1962
for marimba (or mandolin) and harp (or piano)

James Gardner  

Given what we gather takes place

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2003, r. 2004
for clarinet and percussion

  • Instrumentation
    can be performed on any of the clarinets; choice of percussion instruments left to performer
  • Programme Note

    This is the “permanent exhibit” from the work in progress called ‘given what we gather takes place’. The model for the whole work is that of a museum in which some exhibits are on permanent display, and others are brought up from the storeroom. In other words, some sections of music are always to be played, while others are chosen by the performers from a pool of material to present a unique exhibition for each performance. The percussionist’s instrumental collection is similarly assembled; some categories of instruments are specified while others are chosen by the percussionist with the added stipulation that some aspect of the instruments chosen must be unique to the location of the performance. The music of this particular “exhibit” alludes to, but does not use, folk-like material and is conceived as a playful sparring match between two friendly opponents. ‘given what we gather takes place’ was commissioned by Resonate Duo, to whom it is dedicated, with funding from Creative New Zealand.

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Jack Body  

In the Curve of Song

 Year: 2003
for voice, tape, viola, flute/ piccolo and four percussionists

Ivan Zagni  

Moments 84

 Year: 1984
design structures of sound and movement in graphic images

  • Programme Note

    Moments is made up of 14 frames, which are a visual guide to the exploration of sound and movement. The structures contained within the images can be freely interpreted in any sequence, providing it is followed through to its conclusion. The various designs and symbols create the tone colour and rhythm.

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Annea Lockwood  

Monkey Trips

Duration: 35' 00" Year: 1995
for chamber ensemble including non-western instruments and slides

  • Instrumentation
    2 wind, 2 strings, piano, 2 percussionists, non-western instruments
  • Programme Note

    Monkey Trips is based upon the Tibetan Buddhist metaphor of the six states/realms of being which we constantly recreate and assume to be reality, six “different kinds of projections or dream worlds” (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche). Each realm is associated with a particular instrument and the piece moves through them successively.

    The Heaven Realm (violin), realm of serenity and stasis in which the monkey dwells on her achievements, blocking out everything undesirable; the intrusion of another player draws her out of this solipsistic state and into dialogue.

    In the Human Realm (cello), realm of passion and intellect, the monkey becomes discriminating – exploring, comparing, reaching out to possess the pleasurable, but discovering that pleasure slips away and craving creates frustrations. However, the idea of unity emerges.

    Those frustrations impel a retreat into the Animal Realm (bass clarinet), away from intensity into the habitual, rooting around in a more limited world, clinging stubbornly to the safely familiar, whether painful or comfortable.

    Then a desperate feeling of starvation sets in, the realm of the Hungry Spirits (flutes); visions of open space and of plenty turn into deprivation. A thirsting for what monkey remembers she once had becomes insatiable. Always reaching out but never realising that in order to drink, you have to first open your throat.


    The Hell Realm (percussion): a feeling of being trapped in a small space, of struggling to control this self-created imprisonment. The more she struggles, the more solid grow the walls until rage is exhausted. Then the monkey begins to let go, and suddenly sees that the walls are self-created, the realms are self-created. She breaks through into open space.

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Robin Maconie  

Pastorale

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1977
for solo violin or other melody instrument