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Anton Killin  

Absence

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 2010
electroacoustic

• Programme Note

  Absence is a short electroacoustic work which comprises recorded fragments, some electronically manipulated, of Andrzej Nowicki performing my clarinet piece, Primes, which was composed and dedicated to him in 2009.

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Breathe

 Year: 2010
electroacoustic

• Programme Note

  Breathe was commissioned by Irish flautist Bill Dowdall and features the sounds of him performing on both bass and sliding headjoint flutes. The other sonorities are vocalisms made by a young Italian visual artist, Alice Grassi, I met while we were both Associate Artists at the Atlantic Centre for the Arts in Florida in 2010. I was taken with her lilting voice and made many recordings. Breathe is an amalgam of breath, voice and flute sounds in a sensuous and suggestive interplay. It is included on the Atoll CD Breathe, new notes for flute from Ireland & New Zealand (ACD 111).

• Availability

  • Eve de Castro-Robinson: Breathe; video 

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  • Eve de Castro-Robinson: Breathe 

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Jason Long  

First Contact

Duration: 09' 15" Year: 2010
electroacoustic

• Instrumentation
  four speakers
• Programme Note

  This piece explores minute physical textures through the use of a custom-made piezo-electric disc. The composer uses these malleable sounds sounds with a multi-speaker arrangement to create an introverted, microscopic sound-world to envelop the listener from all angles.

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  • Jason Long: First Contact (left); part 1 of 4 

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  • Jason Long: First Contact (right surround); part 4 of 4 

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  • Jason Long: First Contact (right); part 3 of 4 

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  • Jason Long: First Contact (left surround); part 2 of 4 

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Briar Prastiti  

In The Classroom

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2012
an electroacoustic work

• Programme Note

  “In the Classroom” was inspired by what I call the ‘21st century classroom’ which is mostly comprised of laptops and the sound of typing with the occasional manic scribbling of the old fashioned pencil: The piece focuses on the percussive sounds of typing and gestural sounds of scribbling, and how one can lose their concentration for this very reason. The irony behind the piece is that the idea was conceived during a music lecture in which I simply could not concentrate on the lecture about music, but instead the music that was happening all around me. Texture provides the basic layer of the piece but within this texture, rhythms are brought out to draw attention to the musicality of classroom noises.
  —Briar Prastiti

• Availability

  • Briar Prastiti: In The Classroom - downloadable mp3 

    Digital sound file - MP3
    
    $3.00

Hannah Gilmour  

Ode to a Cricket

 Year: 2010
electroacoustic

• Programme Note

  It is easy to overlook things that seem insignificant in life and forget the need to stop and pay attention to details. We can miss the joy and importance of small things.

  In this work I developed the sample of a cricket to symbolise the solitary voice of one overlooked by society. By drawing the audience’s attention to this sound, I have attempted to portray how, even though it has a small role, there is something charming and captivating about the cricket’s call and the great lessons that can be learnt from it.

  I have explored this idea in three movements: a moderately slow melodic movement, a rhythmic second movement and a slower harmonic final movement.

  Hannah Gilmour

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  • Hannah Gilmour: Ode to a Cricket 

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  • Music at the Edge: OKTA 

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Reuben Derrick  

Poranui

Duration: 10' 40" Year: 2011, r. 2012
a soundscape work featuring the beach at Birdlings Flat, Canterbury.

• Programme Note

  Birdlings Flat/Poranui is located in the South Island of New Zealand between Christchurch and Akaroa at the point where Lake Forsythe enters the sea. Its main feature is the particularly hostile beach with a heavy swell and undercurrents that have claimed the lives of people attempting to swim or wander too far down its steep bank. The landscape is harsh, bleak and exposed. Banks Peninsula can be seen to the North and East, Kaitorete Spit stretches 25 km to the West and to the South is the Pacific Ocean. The peninsula and spit are both affected by human activity, particularly grazing stock. There is a small settlement, of less than 200 residents, where the sound of the sea is always present.

  Material used in this piece was recorded over three visits between November 2010 and July 2011. I have endeavoured to allow the place to ‘sing’ for itself, by re-locating its voices and drawing out their nuances to express its uniqueness. Particular attention has been given to record from perspectives that visitors to this astonishing environment are unlikely to otherwise experience, such as very close proximity, where these voices become hyper-real through the ‘acoustic lens’ of the microphone. The piece seeks to define the uniqueness of the location by examining its ‘sound objects’ in terms of their individual characteristics, as well as by how they fit together and inter-relate when re-combined in different permutations.

• Availability

  • Reuben Derrick: Poranui; audio 

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Denis Smalley  

Spectral Lands

 Year: 2011
an acoustic work in six channels