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Victoria Kelly  

Being Eve - series one

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2000, r. 2001
Music for TV series (13 episodes- 30 minutes each), produced by Vanessa Alexander

Victoria Kelly  

Being Eve - series two

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2001, r. 2002
music for TV series produced by Vanessa Alexander

Kit Powell  

Chinese Songs

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1988
for high soprano and tape

  • Programme Note

    First performed in a concert of the Swiss Computer Music Center with soloist Franziska Staeheli. Later performances in Bern (with a short lecture about it by me) and in Schaffhausen. Bruno Spoerri also played the tape abroad, in a demonstration of our work here.

    Preparation for the work involved analysis of several Chinese instruments; Ch’in (a zither), gong and wood block. The wave analysis was done with a computer program and my imitations were realized on the Computer Music Center’s DMX. There are two sets of texts: from the Tao Te Ching (Lao Tse) and from the I Ching. The Lao Tse texts were chosen by me and set with traditional notation. The I Ching texts were chosen by chance (with the computer) and set with a computer generated graphic notation. Proportions within the piece were also made with a computer program using chance and units of Golden Section. (More details in the introduction to the score).

    This piece could be performed with two singers: one singing the Tao texts, the other singing the I Ching texts.

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John Rimmer  

Composition 10

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1977
double bass and electronic sounds

John Rimmer  

Composition 8

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1974
for violin and electronic sounds

Denis Smalley  

Cornucopia

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1973
amplified horn and tape

John Rimmer   Richard Nunns  

Cosmic Winds

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2004
for traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoro) and tape

John Rimmer  

Crow

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1991
for oboe and electronic sounds

Susan Frykberg  

Desires

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1990
for tape, singer and 2 actors

John Elmsly  

Drift

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1994
for viola and tape

  • Programme Note

    The electronic part for this work was prepared in the computer music studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, using real-time granular synthesis to process samples produced by the viola. A small resource of bowed and plucked sounds has been treated in this way to produce a large-scale mosaic of sounds to background the solo viola part, which explores playing techniques involving small changes, drifts, in pitch. For instance the opening is played with the fingers in closer than normal position to produce rhythmic patterns on very small intervals, a technique which recurs as a sort of technical motto throughout, and later material makes considerable use of much larger slides to produce a very fluid melody in the upper reaches of the instrument.

    The first performance was given by violist David Nalden in the
    ExtravaCANZa festival at Victoria University of Wellington in November 1994. David Nalden describes ‘Drift’ as ‘a vast soundscape of seemingly infinite varieties of colour, pitch and rhythm which bore as much resemblance to the sequence of sounds in my initial recording as a luxuriant garden to a handful of seeds which had given it its existence.’

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