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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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Anthony Ritchie  

A Poem Just for Me

 Year: 1988
arranged by Anthony Ritchie for soprano, baritone and piano

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

A Resonance of Emerald

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1988, r. 1990
for mixed chamber ensemble

David Hamilton  

An Offering for Parihaka

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1988
for traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoru) and string orchestra

Andrew Perkins  

Brass Quintet 'Lux et Origo'

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1988

David Hamilton  

Caliban's Song

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1988
for a cappella SSAATTBB choir

Felicity Williams  

Carol of the New Zealand Bush

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1988
for SATB choir

Kit Powell  

Chinese Songs

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1988
for high soprano and tape

  • Programme Note

    First performed in a concert of the Swiss Computer Music Center with soloist Franziska Staeheli. Later performances in Bern (with a short lecture about it by me) and in Schaffhausen. Bruno Spoerri also played the tape abroad, in a demonstration of our work here.

    Preparation for the work involved analysis of several Chinese instruments; Ch’in (a zither), gong and wood block. The wave analysis was done with a computer program and my imitations were realized on the Computer Music Center’s DMX. There are two sets of texts: from the Tao Te Ching (Lao Tse) and from the I Ching. The Lao Tse texts were chosen by me and set with traditional notation. The I Ching texts were chosen by chance (with the computer) and set with a computer generated graphic notation. Proportions within the piece were also made with a computer program using chance and units of Golden Section. (More details in the introduction to the score).

    This piece could be performed with two singers: one singing the Tao texts, the other singing the I Ching texts.

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Bryony Jagger  

Christmas Cake Carol

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1988
for SATB choir with soprano solo and organ

Bill Barclay  

Circular Concerto

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1988
for string quartet