In these pieces for a 'chamber grouping' of just three gamelan instruments, I used as the basis for composition a combined scale made up of pelog and slendro...

The machinery of Concertino for Five Instruments operates like the switching on and off of a light. When the light turns on the music is illuminated. When ...

"Two Transcriptions" combines two snapshots from Western music repertoire, transcribed for Javanese gamelan (pelog) - a peasant song and a 16th century canon...

Rona e te Marama was written for a collaboration between dancer Didik Nini Thowok, and Gamelans Taniwha Jaya and Padhang Moncar. In the traditional Maori S...

Sun Wu Kong "Monkey" is a tribute to mentor and friend Jack Body. Jack invited me to write this piece for his retirement concert "Gong Crazy" during my ter...

This work uses four short passages from Canadian composer and ethnomusicologist, Colin McPhee's famous account of his experiences while living in Bali in the...

The gamelan is a percussion orchestra from Indonesia, made up of gongs, drums, metallophones, wooden xylophones, strings (bowed and plucked), bamboo flute, a...

In Procession I use several unorthodox playing techniques on the gamelan. The tunings of pelog and slendro are combined freely throughout; the piano remain...

Tabuh Pacific was composed as a lively dialogue between two diverse instrumental ensembles, the symphony orchstra and the Balinese gamelan. Like the orches...

The poem is a reflection of the transient nature of love and life. The gamelan, being an intergral part of a traditional which sees life as cyclic, maybe off...

This piece uses material from a piano piece I concurrently composed for Ross Carey, which was based on bird song. I enjoyed the challenge of having to trans...

Hymn to the Virgin, sung on Easter Day – "He whom thou bore, has risen from the dead, as was promised".

Hymn to the Blessed Sacrament, attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas – bread and wine become Christ's body and blood.

This is an arrangement for Javanese gamelan of a song by a British musician made famous in Indonesia by its use in a Sony ad featuring the Filipino singer, M...

This piece is a directed improvisation for full Javanese gamelan (pelog and slendro) and accordion. Together, accordion, kenong and rebab ground the soundsc...

The title, Now I Know, is a play on an initial misunderstanding over the name of the clarinet soloist for whom, along with Gamelan Padhang Moncar, the work...

Wan ge (Elegy) uses a poem by Tao Qian (Tao Yuanming) (365-427), who is one of the greatest poets in the Weijing period. The poem embodies the poet's conce...

Shifting Shadows (2012) is inspired by Stockhausen's Mikrophonie 1 (1964), in which the sounds of a tam-tam are manipulated in real time by the movement of h...