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Dylan Lardelli  

Musical Box

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2009, r. 2011
for taonga puoro, viola, guitar and harp

  • Programme Note

    Just in the way music boxes are used to store keepsakes and ignite faded memories, the instrumentalists in this piece are called on to respond to the primary instrumentalist by playing a transformed and faded version of the initial musical occurrence. Much in the same way memories are often comprised of reality and ongoing transfiguration’s; the instrumentalists material becomes more disparate and takes on more of a life of its own.

    This work was commissioned by the New Zealand School of Music with funding assistance from Creative New Zealand.

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Philip Brownlee  

Te Hau o Tawhirimatea

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 2004
for flute and taonga puoro

  • Instrumentation
    Flutes: piccolo/alto flute; Taonga puoro: putorino, koauau ponga ihu, pumotomoto
  • Programme Note

    Te Hau o Tawhirimatea is dedicated to Richard Nunns and Bridget Douglas. The music aims to create a space in which the musicians, and the voices of their instruments, may speak together. The musical space is flexible, encouraging spontaneous dialogue between the various instrumental voices. Tawhirimatea, the wind god, child of Earth and Sky, represents powerful elemental forces, but he is also capable of gentle playfulness. Te hau refers also to human breath, the force which animates the wind instruments. From the mingling of breath, sweet voices are brought into being.

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