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Chris White  

A Nefarious Affair

Duration: 05' 41" Year: 1997
for jazz quartet

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Chris Watson  

about nothing...really

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2010
for flute, B flat clarinet, guitar and cello

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  • Programme Note

    NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION 2010: Stop writing dishonest programme notes.

    This work was conceived in the abstract and does not relate to human experience. It does not illustrate the composer’s state of mind, he having suddenly found himself awake in the middle of the night, unable to control his thoughts. While the experience of insomnia, especially when suffered over consecutive nights, can be physically and emotionally crippling, at times the abundance and insistence of multiple streams of unwanted thought (unruly Beta waves) can be, if not pleasurable, then certainly fascinating. This piece does not seek to illustrate this through music, nor does it sonically pose this question: why does the brain seize control of the consciousness and produce such a plethora of unwanted activity that sleep is made impossible and the host becomes miserable?

    At times, certain thoughts seem to somehow rise above the melee of insomniac thought and become quite focused and of seeming import, however inane these might seem in the cold light of day. This is not portrayed in the music by infrequent parings-down of texture and emergence of single, insistent motivic ideas. The music doesn’t describe how such thoughts soon get swallowed up as the jumble of thoughts returns and the victim adjusts position once again, glancing desperately at his or her clock radio and resolving hopelessly to try to make yet another attempt at deep breathing and sheep counting work.

    The composer could claim that the work is about these things, but that would be a lie; he no longer wishes to construct programme notes after the act of composition that conform to some conceivable extra-musical agenda.

    This version of this work is the first of a number of versions, with another swapping cello for viola and another as a solo guitar piece currently projected.

    The work was requested by Dylan Lardelli and is dedicated to this increasingly mythic musician.

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Jenny McLeod  

Africana

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1985
for 2 saxophones (doubling clarinet), trumpet and bass trombone

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    sop saxophone/clarinet, alto saxophone/bass clarinet, trumpet, bass trombone
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John Elmsly  

Afterthoughts

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1978
for clarinet, trumpet, cello and percussion

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Peter Scholes (composer)  

Antikythera

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2006
for flute, 2 bass clarinets and double bass

  • Programme Note

    Antikythera is an island between Greece and a larger island called Kythera. It is the site of a very significant archeological find in 1901. The object was a complex piece of clockwork machinery designed to calculate astronomical positions It has been dated to 150-100 BC.

    The device is remarkable for the level of miniaturisation and complexity of its parts showing a craftsmanship comparable t that of 18th century clocks.

    The music seeks to convey the interaction between the components of the clockwork mechanism and the idea that this think has lain dormant for 2000 years and has been carefully reconstructed.

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Rachel Clement  

Feeblebeast

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2000
for bass clarinet, bass trombone and percussion

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Emma Carlé  

Go Go Gadget Arms

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1999
for three violins and Javanese gamelan instrument (bonang)

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Hugh Dixon  

Into the Silent Valley

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2004
for flute, violin, horn and violoncello

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Stephan Schulz  

Kacapi/Suling

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1989
for treble recorder, guitar, viola and cello

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John Rimmer  

Kakapo Reborn

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2002
for bass clarinet, bass trombone, cello, double bass

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