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John Psathas  

Antara

co-composed with Manos Achalinotopoulos for clarinet and synthesizer, co-arranged with Steve Garden

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  • Manos Achalinotopoulos: Flight on Light  Year: 2011 

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John Rimmer  

Au

concerto for bass clarinet

Reuben Derrick  

Castle Hill April Fool

Duration: 05' 56" Year: 2012
a field recording featuring exploratory performance at Kura Tawhiti, Canterbury.

• Instrumentation
  solo clarinet
• Programme Note

  Kura Tawhiti, also named Castle Hill by early European travellers, is a conservation area located between the Torlesse and Craigeburn mountain ranges in the South Island. Its most distinctive geological feature is rampart-like limestone rock formations, making it a popular site for climbers. Because of its exposed alpine location weather conditions can be extreme.

  Kura Tawhiti, meaning ‘the treasure from a distant land’, has great historical significance for Ngāi Tahu, who are actively involved with the management of its conservation. Knowledge of trails, shelters, rock drawings and historical food cultivation sites is an intrinsic part of past and present tribal identity.

  Towards the northern end is an area facing several escarpments, the most distant is about 200m away from the recording location. In still weather these can generate multiple echoes of varying length, direction and timbre. Typical soundscape components are pulsating insects, transient birds, gusts of wind against grass and rocks and distant traffic on state highway 73.

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James Gardner  

Charge

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1997
for any member of the clarinet family

• Programme Note

  This short piece was written as a twenty-first birthday present for clarinetist Esther Smaill. The melodic fragment heard at the outset soon skitters over its own unstable surface, mutates into fanfare-like repetitions, is spliced with momentary cantabile inserts, is interrupted by slow motion signposts, and blows itself out in a final burst of energy.

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  • 175 East Vol. 1 

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  • James Gardner: Selected Works 

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  • Ears Wide Open Taringa Areare Education Resource CD  Year: 2000 

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  • Sound Barrier  Year: 2006 

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  • Andrew Uren: Steep Steps  Year: 2011 

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Jonathan Besser  

Coldwater Light Bulb

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2005
improvisation for bass clarinet and piano

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  • Jonathan Besser and Andrew Pask: Griffith Park  Year: 2005 

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Yvette Audain  

Compendium Improvisation

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2006
improvisation for solo clarinet

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David Downes  

Crystalline Athos

co-composed with Manos Achalinotopoulos for clarinet and other instruments

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Michael Norris  

De corporis fabrica

 Year: 2012
for amplified solo clarinet and video

• Programme Note

  De humani corporis fabrica, a 16th-century anatomy textbook by Andreas Vesalius, was an important step in the Renaissance advancement of medical and anatomical knowledge. Divided into seven chapters, the book groups the myriad elements of the body into seven broad categories. This work for solo clarinet, divided into seven movements, responds to these categories through gestures, energy profiles and structural processes that take their cue from Vesalius’s taxonomy:

  Book I: The bones and the ligaments that interconnect them
  Book II: The ligaments and muscles, instruments of voluntary and deliberate motion
  Book III: The series of veins and arteries throughout the body
  Book IV: The nerves
  Book V: The organs of nutrition and generation
  Book VI: The heart and organs serving the heart
  Book VII: The brain and organs of sense

  Quite apart from the intertextual references, however, the extreme demands of the music heighten the role of the performer’s own body as a site for the literal embodiment of the physiological processes described in the text.

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Alex Taylor  

deepwalker

Duration: 09' 30" Year: 2011
work for vocalising clarinetist

• Instrumentation
  solo clarinet
• Programme Note

  In many ways this is a companion piece to an earlier work, Vivid for solo trumpet, which also sets a powerful, sexually charged poem by Will Christie. But where Vivid is very often overtly violent and forceful in its gestures, deepwalker is mostly much subtler, almost passive-aggressive in outlook. The opening lines of the poem – “the day is a drum that connects these vocal loops with grey traffic circles bridge after bridge” – are mirrored in the cyclical, sometimes elliptical form of the work, loops and circles that play between registers of the clarinet. Sexual tension and aggression bubble away in the background, periodically rupturing the musical surface with piercing, angular outbursts, sometimes in parallel with the rather tender, fluid lines of the low register, and with the spoken text itself. This violent interplay creates a kind of disordered internal conversation, a bizarre hermetic character opening and shutting her windows; a clarinet of many voices.

  Warning: contains coarse language

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John Psathas  

Heliotrope

co-composed with Manos Achalinotopoulos for clarinet and electroacoustic

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