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...

The piece was written in collaboration with Andrzej Nowicki, a NZSM student who dances with a Polish folk group in Wellington. The clarinet carries the dance...

Jangeran seeks to bridge the musical gap between East and West: a Balinese melody is appropriated by the Western orchestra and is recast in a range of West...

Inspired by my transcribing of Benicio Sokkong's singing of a fragment of the Ullalim epic of the Kalinga, northern Philippines.

"From Shadows" contrasts improvised cadenzas (ugal, kendhang and violin) with sparse, glistening melodies on the one hand, and dense kotekan sections on the ...

Dedicated to Jack Body, this work is a revisiting of an earlier work of mine, Waiting for the Aeroplane, written when I was a composition student at Victoria...

Composed for the memory of a dear friend in August 2009.

“Duggan” was a television police-drama series in which Detective Inspector John Duggan (played by John Bach) was given grisly murder cases to solve, set agai...

Among the many subtleties that can be found within gamelan music, I have always been struck by the exquisite rhythmic dichotomy between the main body of inst...

This work was written especially for two great friends (and myself): clarinet virtuoso and winner of the 2009 NZSM Concerto Competition, Andrzej Nowicki, and...

A medicine bundle is part of the traditional teachings and practices of the First Nations peoples of North America. The title of this piece, which I wrote as...

This piece was written in 1975 when Allan Thomas first brought his Cirebon gamelan to Victoria University. I encouraged a composition class to join in learni...