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Oliver Hancock  

chor-respondent

 Year: 2009
live algorithm which interacts with an improvising human performer

• Instrumentation
  laptop, microphone
• Programme Note

  chor-respondent is a computer program that interacts with a live performer. The interaction is managed purely through sound, there is no complicated MIDI equipment or electronic sensors – just a microphone. chor-respondent listens to the sounds that the performer plays, and responds by producing sounds of its own. It builds up chords based on the performer’s recent notes, and any notes that it is currently playing. The result is swelling chords of beautiful but often unexpected harmony. A performance lasts as long as the live improviser wishes.

  The program had its first performance at the Songs for Dynamic Systems concert organized by the Live Algorithms for Music network. The performance was with Finn Peters on flute, at Café Oto in London, August 6th 2009.

• Availability

  • Hancock: chor-respondent; pure data file 

    Part - recorded | CD
    

  • Oliver Hancock: chor-respondent 

    Digital sound file - MP3
    

Dorothy Buchanan  

Hinemoa and Tutanekai

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1978
suite for piano

• Instrumentation
  No.4 improvised; No.7 for piano duet.
• Programme Note

  Written to provide a dramatic programme to capture student’s imagination. Words are provided, so that singing can be included in the study.

• Availability

  • Buchanan: Hinemoa and Tutanekai; facsimile  Year: 1980 

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    $12.00
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Jenny McLeod  

Kumara, E Tupu! (Grow Kumara!)

 Year: 1997
for three part or four part choir, percussion with improvised drum part and optional piano accompaniment

• Instrumentation
  The upper percussion part could be played by claves and/or Maori sticks or Maori poi. The lower percussion part could be played by a small hand-drum
• Availability

  • McLeod: Kurama, E Tupu! (Grow, Kumara!); computer-set 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    $5.00
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  • McLeod: Twelve Maori Songs; computer-set 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    $35.00
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Chris Adams  

Mad Cow Farmers' Disease (Jazz Band version)

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2011
An arrangement for Jazz Band by the composer of the original for mixed ensemble of 9 players.

• Instrumentation
  Jazz Band: 2,2,1;4;4; Pno, Drums, Bass
• Programme Note

  When Silencio Ensemble asked me to write the original piece, it was suggested that I write something inspired by or relevant to Canterbury – one possibility being a piece inspired by the landscape. In a funny kind of way, Mad Cow-Farmer’s Disease is inspired by the landscape – going to a Canterbury river and seeing the signs that say “Do Not Swim” or another where cows are loose in the riverbed and cow shit is all over the place.

  It is inspired by dry riverbeds surrounded by farms with pumps constantly irrigating the land – the premise being that any ounce of water that makes it to the sea is wasted. These same farmers, self-titled “environmentalists,” use hypothetical science to justify their wanton destruction of the natural environment.

• Availability

  • Chris Adams: Mad Cow Farmers' Disease (Jazz Band version) - hardcopy score & parts 

    Score and parts | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    $50.00
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  • Chris Adams: Mad Cow Farmers' Disease (Jazz Band version) - downloadable PDF 

    Score and parts | Pdf - computer set
    
    $35.00
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Felicity Williams  

Prism, Street Music and Astronomy Music

 Year: 1988
three classroom improvisations

Rosemary Russell  

Psalm 19

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2010, r. 2011
for unison voices and piano or guitar with optional choral harmonies

• Programme Note

  This contemporary worship song is energetic and a congregation can really get into it.
  It enables us to respond to both the brilliance of God’s creation and his love for his creatures.
  For our church’s 50th Jubilee in July 2011, I added choral parts.
  G major, 4/4 time at a good speed.
  Improvise the piano part based on the guitar chords.
  

Felicity Williams  

The Spangled Pandemonium and other poems

 Year: 1988
poems with sounds and improvised percussion

• Instrumentation
  classroom instruments

Felicity Williams  

The Taniwha's Afternoon Snooze

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1990
poem with sounds

• Instrumentation
  improvised percussion and classroom instruments

John Elmsly  

Tui

Duration: 01' 45" Year: 2007
for piano

• Availability

  • Sunrise: Music from New Zealand for Young Pianists  Year: 2008 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    $20.00
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  • Sunrise - Music from New Zealand for Young Pianists  Year: 2008 

    CD
    

Gillian Whitehead  

Voices of Tane

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1976
Seven piano pieces for children

• Programme Note

  ‘Voices of Tane’ (1976) was the first piece I wrote on my first return to New Zealand after nine years away. It was written for my sister, Joyce Whitehead, to play at the Registered Music Teachers’ Conference in Auckland that year. A series of seven short piano pieces, written with children in mind (although some of them are difficult for children to play), was written for my godson, Kit Boyes. There is little to say about the pieces themselves except that the last repeats the first, the third has to do with birdsong, the fifth with the wind, and the sixth consists of nine ideas that the pianist plays in whatever sequence she or he wishes.

• Availability

  • Whitehead: Voices of Tane; computer-set 

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    $7.00
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  • Gillian Whitehead: Voices of Tane; audio 

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