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Double Resonances explores the idea of the resonances of two cultures (East and West) as a resource for establishing a personal sound resonant of my Pacific locale. Out of stillness half resonances from prepared and altered piano techniques merge with Korean temple gong and Samul Nori metal resonances. Bass sounds in shifting, Filipino-inspired ostinato rhythms propel the piece forward against sudden jazzy intrusions based on dissonant interval-colours. A Filipino scale borrowed from the percussive gone-chime beauty of a particular kulintang – that of world musician, Michael Atherton – underpins the percussion pitches in this stormy first section and later, during recurring still centres, it merges with the gentle sounds of the Chinese Shang-tiao mode as moments of sparky tranquility. They jazz-inspired intrusions and developed repeated note drivers return to form a massive sonic climax which includes moments of controlled improvisation for the players; the climax subsides, ebbing back to the half echoes of prepared piano and transcendence of a temple gong sound.


Double Resonances was written for the Music of the Spirit concert at the Aurora Festival in 2008.


Bruce Crossman

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“Today, New Zealand Forests are quiet but in 1770 Joseph Banks wrote thus about Queen Charlotte Sound: ‘This morn I was awkd by the singing of the birds ashore……the numbers of them were certainly very great……’ He would be shocked at the silence that greets the dawn there now.” The Lost world of the Moa – Worthy and Holdaway. "Aotearoa’s multitude of birds performed that symphony each dawn for over sixty million years. It was a glorious riot of sound with its own special meaning for it was in confirmation of the health of a wondrous and unique ecosystem. To my regret, I arrived in New Zealand in the late twentieth century to find most of the orchestra seats empty. Walking through the ancient forest…….I heard nothing but the whisper of leaves blowing in the wind. It was like the rustle of the last curtain fall on an orchestra that will be no more.’ Tim Flannery – Future Eaters

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