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Matthew Davidson  

#5

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1991
analogue tape piece

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  This “reverse theme and variations” was realized in Studio B of the Experimental Music Studiols at University of Illinois, Urbana, USA. Distorted beyond recognition, and then increased in speed to the point of white noise, the “theme” or sound source is revealed in the final moments. And, as should be the case, John Barrymore has the last word.

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  • Stolen Music - New Compositions by Matthew Davidson  

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  • Stolen Music - Chamber and Electronic Music by Matthew Davidson  Year: 1996 

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Mark Langford  

21 Graphic Scores

 Year: 1991
A2 graphic scores printed on kinwashi white (Japanese paper)

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  Created for the exhibition ‘Music in the Eye’, curated by Philip Dadson, City of Edinburgh Music Library, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, 2001.

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  • Sauer, Theresa (ed.): Notations 21  Year: 2009 

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Philip Norman  

A Christmas Carol

Duration: 1h 41' 00" Year: 1990
three act ballet with music for computer controlled keyboards

Juliet Palmer  

A Guided Viewing

 Year: 1998
sound installation

Philip Norman  

A Padre's Story

 Year: 1990
theme and incidental music for a TVNZ documentary, for computer-controlled keyboards

John Rimmer  

A Vocalise for Einstein

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1991
electronic music

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  • John Rimmer: Fleeting Images  Year: 1993 

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Martin Lodge  

After Dürer

Duration: 07' 50" Year: 1997
dance film in collaboration with One Fat Man Productions and Daniel Belton

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  Watch a video on YouTube here >>

  “This original music has been scored for solo cello parts by renowned New Zealand composer Martin Lodge. James Tennant is the cellist. Martin sent me a number of short melodic phrases and various texture or sound studies for cello. This work was recorded by One Fat Man Productions and some material digitally altered also. I then “re-composed” the sound to fit with my visual edit of the film. The sound for the film only exists like this and is intrinsic to the complete work."
  -Daniel Belton

John Young  

Allting Runt Omkring

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1998
8-channel electroacoustic

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  8 -channel electroacoustic
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  This work was composed on the 8-channel digital sound system at EMS Stockholm while I was a visiting composer there in 1998. The piece grew out of my encounters with the Stockholm soundscape, which surprised me with its clarity and vitality – both above and below the ground… the chimes of church clocks audible across very large distances…the tunnelbana (subway) with its caverns hewn out of granite, where even quiet shuffles of feet are etched with clarity… skaters on the open air ice rink… footsteps on granite stairs and creaking floors. Along with these I integrated a number of field recordings made in my own country… a fairground, with ghost train and house of mirrors… wind gently resonating a flagpole… I found many of these sounds so captivating that I realised I was carrying impressions of them in my head, and frequently imagining the presence of one sound ‘inside’ another as I was hearing them (both in and out of the studio). ‘Allting Runt Omkring’ attempts to project some of that sensation by creating a new context in which field recordings from the natural world are integrated and transformed. All sound sources in the work are environmental in origin. I work exclusively with my own field recordings, since for me it is important to have a connection with the original context of my sound sources. In this piece the context in which sounds are heard and shaped was an important stimulus, while the tape medium allows me to forge new contextual relationships for the sound. For example, in Stockholm there are a large number of churches and public buildings in the main city area, especially Gamla Stan (the old town), but also across to the islands of Kungsholmen and Soder. At quarter hour intervals the clocks of Stockholm chime, and from a single vantage point one can hear an astonishing depth in the soundscape. The Stockholm tunnelbana also has a great acoustical presence and range of sounds, and in this piece I have tried to fuse sounds of ‘above’ and ‘below’ ground (for instance by linking the bell resonances to the tunnelbana, or by taking the noise of trains to the ice rink).

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  • John Young electroacoustic works 2 

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Philip Dadson  

An Archaeology of Stones

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1996
a sound/performance with 'song stones' and sound stories

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  • The Fourth Window: Artspace  Year: 1999 

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John Rimmer  

An Inner Voice

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1991
electroacoustic work

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  • John Rimmer: Fleeting Images  Year: 1993 

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