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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.

• Powell: Chinese Songs; computer-set 

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• Powell: Prepared Tape  Year: 1994 

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Fluchtig was composed in 1986. The title comes from the German word fluchtig – fleeting – used by Schoenberg and others in various compositions (eg. Op. 19 No. 1). The work is built around the interaction between flute multiphonics (two or more notes played simultaneously) with their characteristic ‘fleeting’ nature, and FM sound on tape.

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• Ross Harris: Inner Worlds  Year: 1993 

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Gestauqua was composed in February and March 1989, for Concord Brass Quintet, then resident at SUNY Fredonia and directed by Grant Cooper

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• Grant Cooper and Concord Brass: Points in a Changing Circle 

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• Rimmer: Marathon; facsimile 

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• Powell: Nelson Songs; facsimile 

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Projections at Dawn is a musical reflection of a pure unpolluted environment. The opening suggests the cool, calm atmosphere of pre-dawn. A lively dawn sun-dance follows.

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• Rimmer: Projections at Dawn; facsimile  Year: 1986 

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• Seaswell  Year: 1992 

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• John Elmsly (ed.): Canzona Vol 7 No 23  Year: 1985 

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Scored for two SSATB choirs with two homs, this work sets a poem by Miguel de Unamuno in Spanish. This work has been performed in Australia, England and the USA, as well as throughout New Zealand.

It is a setting of a short poem by the Spanish poet Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) and begins by setting the text in a fragmentary manner, choosing single key words from the poem: canta (singing), luna (moon), sosegada (lulling), blanca (white), and sola (alone). Throughout, I have sought to evoke a mood of stillness and calm (except at the two main climaxes), and much of the writing consists of simple diatonic chords alternating between the two choirs. The work ends, as it began, alternating the words ‘canta’ and ‘luna’.

The unusual scoring came about through my friendship with a fine horn player and singer – a flippant comment about unorthodox combinations of forces (although I have heard one other work for horn and choir) providing the germ of idea which eventually did bear fruit.

The Moon is Silently Singing is one of my most widely preformed works internationally, having been heard in Australia, Canada, Germany, England and the USA.

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• Hamilton: The Moon is Silently Singing; computer-set  Year: 2004 

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• New Zealand National Youth Choir: Te Roopu Rangatahi Waiata o Aotea Roa  Year: 1992 

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• The Moon is Silently Singing  Year: 1994 

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• Tower New Zealand Youth Choir: Winds that Whisper  Year: 1998 

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• Whitehead: The Pirate Moon; facsimile 

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