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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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    “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

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Victoria Kelly  

Angel Wings

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1997
music for short film

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Chris Cree Brown  

In Sympathy

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1981
music-theatre-sculpture for solo trumpet

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    3 trumpets and duck callers (one performer)
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    The film, In Sympathy, is based on a piece especially written for Mary Robbie, and was made to be a document of the inter-media work. The film presents Mary playing three trumpets in an unconventional fashion together with two duck-callers. The work sets out a soundscape of aural gestures, that enable the image and sounds to adopt a persona, and with which (whom) the performer interacts.

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Victoria Kelly  

La Vie en Rose

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1993
music for short film

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Chris Cree Brown  

Oxford Theme

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1976
For voice and piano; composed as theme music for a TV special

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Dorothy Buchanan  

Queen of Rivers

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1985
incidental music for film for clarinet doubling soprano saxophone

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Juliet Palmer  

Soaring Roaring Diving

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2008
a film directed by Miriam Harris and Juliet Palmer

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    Soaring Roaring Diving wins Best Experimental Film award at the 2009 Brooklyn International Film Festival.

    Co-directed by Miriam Harris and Juliet Palmer, Soaring Roaring Diving is an animated film that intertwines drawing, Super8 footage, collage, and 2D and 3D animation, with a textured soundtrack mixing music and found sounds. Miriam Harris as animator and Juliet Palmer as composer worked closely together, aiming for a sequence in which sound and image are organically intertwined. The film swims and dives in a poetic journey through grief and, ultimately, resurfacing. The title alludes to Virginia Wolf’s description of the vicissitudes of both the imagination and of life.

    In communicating the perspective of a child and an adult,
    Harris employs a variety of drawing styles, ranging from
    loose sketches to more representational images. There are
    also two drawings by the then four year old daughter of Juliet Palmer, Miriam. A personal, almost diaristic, scrapbook aesthetic echoes the themes of time and personal
    journeying, and both 2D and 3D animation techniques have
    been utilized, so that the motifs of journeying possess a
    spatial dimensionality.

    Palmer’s approach to sound is similarly eclectic. Recording
    with Toronto musician Jean Martin, she has composed a
    haunting mixture of found sounds, percussion, and voice.
    Childhood echoes with the tinny percussiveness of a toy
    xylophone, as well as the voices of young divers at a
    swimming pool. Palmer sings, mutters, breathes, whistles,
    and hums while the sounds of paper resonate throughout the work. Ripping, fluttering, crumpling and scribbling, they
    create a visceral connection between image and sound.

    Soaring Roaring Diving was created with the support of the New Zealand Screen Innovation Fund.

    The 2009 Brooklyn International Film Festival presented 114
    films out of a record-breaking total of 2,770 submissions
    from 110 countries. BiFF was established in 1998 as the
    first international competitive film festival in New York.
    BiFF’s mission is to discover, expose, and promote
    independent filmmakers while drawing worldwide attention to Brooklyn as a center for cinema.

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Diana Blom  

Songs for Salome

Duration: 08' 45" Year: 1975
for mezzo-soprano and piano

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    Robyn Ravlich is a poet and executive producer of the Radiophonic Unit of ABC Radio National in Australia. The three poems are from ‘Songs for Salome’, published in her collection of poems, The Black Abacus (1971). Each describes different aspects of women and love. Reckless Blues begins with text lines from a Bessie Smith song, and musically, draws on blues idiomatic sounds; Elegy for Judy Garland borrows from the laid-back ballad of the late 1930s-1940s made popular by Judy Garland; and Model reflects the brittle, driving world of the fashion model through constantly changing metres and a staccato repeated figure. The songs were commissioned for, and broadcast on, ‘The Coming Out Ready or Not Show’, ABC Radio 2, in November 1975, performed by Angela Giblin (soprano) and Linn Robertson (piano).

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Michael Jamieson  

Uluru

Duration: 05' 30" Year: 2008, r. 2010
for baritone saxophone

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