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This piece was composed in close collaboration with Andrew Sparling whose facility in using quarter-tone fingerings made it possible to experiment with these to produce music which exploits their timbral and colouristic qualities. It was stimulated by a return visit, following a seven-year absence, to New Zealand in 2002. Imagery of the sea is strong within its musical/poetic discourse and the piece is broadly structured over a cycle of seven ‘intensity waves’. The title is shared by an earlier work […and… 11] for 12 players (composed for Lontano in 2002). The link between these contrasting works is the morphology of the wave, encapsulated as a sonic envelope of aspirate (a) – resonant (n) – explosive (d), along with the extremes of space that are characterised in the music by extreme contrasts in dynamic, register and motion. Sparling has performed and recorded the piece in a number of different realisations. In April it was performed by Australian player Richard Haynes at the TURA International Festival in Perth and broadcast by ABC.

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• diffracted terrains: Chamber Music of Dorothy Ker  Year: 2007 

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• Manos Achalinotopoulos: Flight on Light  Year: 2011 

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The title Anxome is a contraction of the word “manxome”, from the phrase in Lewis Carroll’s The Jabberwocky: “long time his manxome foe he sought”. The piece is descriptive of a state of mind: at times anxious and shy, but also playful and cheeky. It was premiered in The Committee’s ‘Lightshift’ concert. Andrew Uren performed it from a high balcony, behind the audience, who were in the dark.

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• Gardner: Are the people happy on your planet, Gina?; computer set 

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Taken from the Spanish word ‘Alborada’, Aubade (dawn) references Ravel’s great work Alborada del Gracioso. Opening with slow lyrical section the mood ranges between languid and energetic, contrasting the opening material with characterful Allegro sections. Originally composed for clarinet and piano, the piece was later orchestrated for Frank Gurr, at that time principal clarinet of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

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• New Works for Clarinet and Piano - Anna McGregor, Emma Sayers and Buz Bryant-Greene 

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• Buchanan: Autograph - Richard Foreman; facsimile 

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• Sinclair: Caprice Intermezzo Dance; computer-set 

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• A Musical Six - Instrumental and orchestral works 

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Cascade on a Ground Bass was written in 1980 for Lawrence Bradley and David Ruddock and had several performances by them in Kent. Lawrence also took it to America and gave more performances of the piece there, and it was performed recently (2001) at the Glamorgan Festival.

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• Margaret Wegener: The Piper of Dreams  Year: 2005 

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• Hunt: Cat Nip; computer set 

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• Natalie Hunt: Cat Nip; video 

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The first in my Chaos of Delight series of pieces based on birdsong, Chaos of Delight I requires the bass clarinettiest to trill, click, screech, book and roll in a virtuosic display of avian sonorities, using the full range of the instrument, from the boom of the kakapo to the shriek of the the morepork and the bleat of the bush falcon. All these can be heard amongst sounds which exploit the unique characteristics of the bass clarinet, such as its uncannily high register, slap tonguing and multiphonics.

The title is taken from a passage in A Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand by Falla, Gibson and Turbott: “…there are still many quiet places far from the madding crowd, where the mind can become, in Darwin’s phrase, ‘a chaos of delight’ at the abundance and variety of birds which pass before the eye or perplex the ear.”

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• De Castro-Robinson: Chaos of Delight I; computer-set  Year: 2006 

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• A Chaos of Delight: music by Eve de Castro-Robinson  Year: 1998 

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• X – Ros Dunlop plays music for clarinet  Year: 2001 

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