By:

• Michael Norris

Duration:

12' 00"

Samples

	Score (104k)	Pages 1-3	© Michael Norris
	Recording (936k)	0:00-1:00	© Michael Norris
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Availability

• This work has 2 scores and 2 recordings

Programme Note

dirty pixels was written in response to two stimuli: an exhibition of the same name (curator, Stella Brennan) in the Adam Art Gallery featuring New Zealand artwork of a certain rough-hewn, ‘gritty’ nature; and hearing the work Jagden und Formen by German composer Wolfgang Rihm, an unremittingly wild and preposterous discourse of extremes.

These two stimuli caused something of an aesthetic dilemma: leaving behind my rather French fondness for euphonious washes of sound, I became interested in the characteristics of ‘roughness’ and ‘raggedness’, and in how a ‘pure’ conceptual scheme, such as the quite systematic construction I had formulated just prior to starting this piece, became ‘dirtied’ by intuition, by the exigencies of the material and by the reality of having it performed.

Michael Norris
Notes taken from The NZTrio – Spark Morrison Music Trust MMT2066

Commissioned:

Commissioned by the New Zealand Trio with funding from Creative New Zealand

• NZTrio

Difficulty:

Advanced

Funders:

• Creative New Zealand

Performance History

	22 Aug 2004	Performed by the NZTrio at Music Theatre, School of Music, Auckland University
		NZTrio
	30 Nov 2007	Performed by the NZTrio as part of FUEL 2007 Festival of New Zealand Music at Gallagher Concert Chamber, Hamilton
		NZTrio

Awards

• IAMIC 'Sounds of the Year' (2005)
  

  Dirty Pixels by Michael Norris was chosen for the list of mixed chamber works presented in 2005 for ‘IAMIC sounds of the Year’.’