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also in a version for 6 perc and improvising piano

For improvising piano and percussion, Napier’s Bones was written for the outstanding improvising pianist Judy Bailey and exists in two formats – one involving 24 percussionists and the other involving 6 virtuoso percussionists.

“The New Zealand work which evoked a similarly strong reaction was Gillian Whitehead’s Napier’s Bones whose protracted time-frame of beautifully controlled percussive and pianistic gestures was music from another sphere – an utterly compelling experience of the type I am always looking for in contemporary music.” (de Castro-Robinson).

For improvising piano and percussion, Napier’s Bones was written for the outstanding improvising pianist Judy Bailey and exists in two formats – one involving 24 percussionists and the other involving 6 virtuoso percussionists.

“The New Zealand work which evoked a similarly strong reaction was Gillian Whitehead’s Napier’s Bones whose protracted time-frame of beautifully controlled percussive and pianistic gestures was music from another sphere – an utterly compelling experience of the type I am always looking for in contemporary music.” (de Castro-Robinson).

Tape and voice

singer, two actors, signal processed voice, live mixed tapes and diffusion. Characters include a singing/talking house, an obsessive compulsive housewife, a Sumerian priestess, home appliances that have their own songs, the 'Great Mother' and a bag lady.

• Susan Frykberg Electroacoustic Music 

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