Chance Piece for Flute and Tape is a variation of Chance Piece for Oboe and Tape.

For my 70th birthday (02/12/07) I was given a concert by the ICST (I...

First performed in a concert of the Swiss Computer Music Center with soloist Franziska Staeheli. Later performances in Bern (with a short lecture about it by...

Nga Tapuwae o Kupe is a music drama directed by Rangimoana Taylor. It is based on the story of Kupe's journey from Hawaiki to Aotearoa and his discovery o...

‘Calm morning, mid-winter’ (mvt 1) was written on a calm, clear and sunny morning (stretching to mid-afternoon) a few days before the winter solstice in Xinz...

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...

A suite in seven movements, the first and last of which (for piano solo) act as a prologue and epilogue to the main part of the work. The genesis of the piec...

When The Royal New Zealand Ballet commissioned Composer Claire Cowan to write the score for Hansel and Gretel in 2019, she became the first woman in NZ to ...

An improvisatory impulse is at the root of this work which involves the performers embracing and engaging with a process, a language, a degree of risk and th...

Splinters of light explode from a central point of combustion, sparks shoot out and follow spontaneous trajectories – each fragment transforming its momentum...

The electronic part for this work was prepared in the computer music studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, using real-time granular synthesis to proc...

For several years I had been promising Andrew a new piece for bass clarinet, and previously worked in Vancouver with Barry Truax's POD system to produce some...

Sketches is a contemporary concerto for bassoon and orchestra written to feature the extraordinary talents of bassoonist Colin Hemmingsen. The bassoon part...

The word Requiem comes from the Latin "requies" [rest]. In choosing a text for my piece, I chose not to use the regular texts from the Roman Catholic Liturgy...

It is for amplified clarinet (with Ibanez Digital Delay DM1100), percussionist and drum machine (Roland TR606). It is for two human performers and a machine...

Like many whakataukī, or traditional sayings, ‘he rimu pae noa’ conveys a rich range of meanings. Literally, it describes seaweed set in motion by the tide. ...

The title is quoted from Nigel Cox’s novel The Cowboy Dog. In the novel, there is a poetic contrast between the constant presence of the landscape, and an ...

The first stirrings of this piece coincided with the birth of my second child. So it may be heard as a small gesture of welcome. However, as often happens, m...

Scottish elements have been purposefully incorporated into this work and are a feature. These include aural references to bagpipes – the opening linking into...

'Fantasy' for flugelhorn and piano by Auckland composer, Chris Artley, is written in a jazz ballad style and is an adaptation of a song written by the compos...

Silk Dialogue (VI) is the sixth in a series of works that I have been working on in the last few years related to the work I have been doing in Taiwan and ...

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

One of the best pieces of theatre I ever saw was a West Indian street juggler on Sydney's harbourfront.

Balls, knives, truncheons, flaming torches - you ...

Ruapehu is the middle movement in a three piece orchestral suite exploring New Zealand landscapes and their link to the four elements. Punakaiki (water) ...

Nga ha o nehera, which translates from the Maori language as 'a breath from the past', was commissioned by and written for Ben Hoadley, with financial assi...

Installation consisting of sonic and visual elements, designed to provide an unsettling experience through use of non-tactile sensors, reactive moving parts ...

Hinetekakara is the ancestress of Aroha Yates-Smith, the kaikaranga (singer) who provided the idea and the text of this piece. Hinetekakara lived on the shor...

Hinetekakara is the ancestress of Aroha Yates-Smith, the kaikaranga (singer) who provided the idea and the text of this piece. Hinetekakara lived on the shor...

Hinetekakara is the ancestress of Aroha Yates-Smith, the kaikaranga (singer) who provided the idea and the text of this piece. Hinetekakara lived on the shor...

This song cycle for soprano and piano has texts by the composer in Maori and English.

"_Awa Herea memorably evokes the physical appearance of symbolic s...

The derailleur is that piece of bicycle componentry which crudely knocks the chain from one sprocket or chain-ring to another, resulting in a higher or lower...

Salvador Dali is probably the world’s best-known surrealist artist, famous for pictures of melting watches, and paintings that evoke dreamlike weirdness and ...

Anacrocosmos, written in 1972 in Berlin, a divided city just becoming used to being surrounded by an impenetrable wall and having acres of barbed wire and ...