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Light - SOUNZ virtual concert

Light
SOUNZ Virtual Concert

Ross Harris's luminous 'There may Be Light' begins this programme of works inspired by ideas of light and light phenomena. Glen Downie's 'Light Speckled Droplet' is a musical realisation of light refracted and reflected in water droplets, while Salina Fisher's Murmuring Light' is inspired by an art installation by Studio Drift, made up of swarms of luminous glass tubes. The programme ends with Karlo Margetić's 'Lightbox', a set of wild, overlapping variations, inspired by overlapping images on a photographer's lightbox.

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Contraptions
SOUNZ Virtual Concert

Maria Grenfell's contrapuntal 'Clockwerk' kicks off this programme inspired by construction, robots, and unusual musical instruments. Jason Long expertly melds live electronics with the sounds of a robotic glockenspiel in 'Broken Mirror', while Alex Taylor deconstructs a series of dances in 'burlesques mècaniques'. David Hamilton's lively 'Hurdy Gurdy' evokes the eponymous string instrument with the medieval melody 'Como poden per sas culpas'.

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Circles - SOUNZ virtual concert

Circles
SOUNZ Virtual Concert

Starting off this concert inspired by spirals and circles, Michael Norris’s virtuosic Violin Concerto ‘Sama’ takes the motion of dancers in Sufi ceremony as its point of departure. It is followed by ‘The Exotic Circle’ by John Rimmer. 

The eight musicians are deployed in a circle, passing the music around to each other as they navigate through a colourful voyage of new sounds for the recorder. John Psathas’s ‘Helix’ finishes off the programme, exploring aspects of mediterranean folk music, from the rhythms of ancient Greece to Roma fiddling.

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Place - SOUNZ virtual concert

Place
SOUNZ Virtual Concert

Douglas Lilburn’s classic ‘Overture Aotearoa’ begins this programme of four evocative pieces. The urban landscape is represented by Sarah Ballard’s exploratory ‘street : noise : graffiti’. Christopher Blake’s ‘The Angel at Ahipara’ takes a Robin Morrison photograph of a Northland churchyard as its point of departure, while in ‘Cries of Auckland’ Eve de Castro Robinson throws us into the sounds of Auckland protest marches through the decades.

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Alchemies
SOUNZ Virtual Concert

These three pieces present an ambitious and unique blending of styles and cultural traditions. Philip Brownlee and Ariana Tikao collaborated to create ‘Ko the tātai whetū’, presented here in the version for taonga pūoro and ensemble. Michael Norris’s ‘Sygyt' is likely the first concerto for throat-singer, while Callum Allardice’s ‘A gathering’ combines jazz ensemble The Jac with Black String, a group including traditional Korean instruments and electric guitar.

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seascapes- SOUNZ virtual concert

Seascapes
SOUNZ Virtual Concert

Being an island nation, there is no shortage of New Zealand music inspired by the sea, in all its moods. Gareth Farr’s ‘Te Tai-O-Rehua’ is a dark-hued portrait of the Tasman Sea, while Lilburn’s ‘Three Sea Changes’ provide a balancing tranquility. The programme is rounded out by Eve de Castro-Robinson’s sonorous ‘Pearls of the Sea’, Ross Harris’s ephemeral Etude (Waves) and Jenny McLeod’s piano trio adaptation of three sea-inspired tone-clock pieces.

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