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Jack Body  

In the Curve of Song

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

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  A setting utilizing extended vocal techniques and a recording of early English riddles.

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Ross Harris  

Incantation

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1981
For Soprano and Tape

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Susan Frykberg  

Insect Life

 Year: 1993
for tape, voice and signal processing

• Instrumentation
  voice part written in treble clef
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  • Susan Frykberg Electroacoustic Music 

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  • Susan Frykberg: Astonishing Sense 

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Jordan Reyne  

Karlsruhe

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2004
for voice and electronic instruments

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Jordan Reyne  

Letters Home

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2004
For voice and electronic instruments

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John Rimmer  

Motet for Hildegard

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 2008
for soprano, oboe and electronic sounds

• Programme Note

  In composing Motet for Hildegard, I imagined Hildegard von Bingen communing with nature while singing her song O Virga Mediatrix (O branch who mediates for us) to the universe above. She listens to the planets as they emit their ‘Harmony of the Spheres’ with certain pitches from her song. The nearby Rhine echoes parts of her song in its occasional turbulent displays. She hears a sequence of notes from her song in the strange resonances of an angelic choir and also in an eastern reed instrument. Then she listens to the morning stars singing and is reminded of a passage from the Book of Job. Finally she hears her own voice in the quiet eddies of the river.

  The electronic music is based partly on tiny fragments of pre-recorded soprano voice and oboe which are resonated and also split into many grains of sounds. In contrast, the ‘harmony of the spheres’ timbres appear as simple granulated sine tones which move in elliptical orbits..

  In the middle of these textures Wendy Dixon’s original recording of Hildegard’s song appears phrase by phrase after which the live soprano and oboe become increasingly florid in keeping with the ornate nature of Hildegard’s song O Virga Mediatrix.

  Other medieval aspects are enhanced by intervals such as the perfect 5th sounding at the ends of phrases, by the harmonic style of organum in the opening and closing phrases of the voice and the oboe and also by the structural use of Golden Section and Fibonacci proportions.

  The process of basing a piece on an existing song seemed to parallel the work of 15th and 16th century composers who often based their sacred pieces – Motets and movements of the Mass on existing plainsong, hence the title of this piece.

  Motet for Hildegard was first performed by Wendy Dixon, soprano and Diana Doherty, oboe in the Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium on 7 December 2008.

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Susan Frykberg  

Mother Too

 Year: 1991
For voice, tape, live signal processing and small meditation bells

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  • Susan Frykberg: Astonishing Sense 

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Susan Frykberg  

My Mother

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1991
for male voice, tapes and signal processing, live mixed and diffused

Kit Powell  

Nelson Songs

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1986
for male singer and tape

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  • Powell: Nelson Songs; facsimile 

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  • Harlow - Powell: Radio NZ Archive Recordings 

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Annea Lockwood  

Night and Fog

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 1987
A song cycle for baritone, tape and ensemble

• Instrumentation
  For baritone voice, baritone saxophone, piano (as percussion) wine glasses, claves, amplification and two-channel tape
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  • Thomas Buckner - Full Spectrum Voice  Year: 1991 

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