Work
Ode to a Cricket
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About
It is easy to overlook things that seem insignificant in life and forget the need to stop and pay attention to details. We can miss the joy and importance of small things.
In this work I developed the sample of a cricket to symbolise the solitary voice of one overlooked by society. By drawing the audience's attention to this sound, I have attempted to portray how, even though it has a small role, there is something charming and captivating about the cricket's call and the great lessons that can be learnt from it.
I have explored this idea in three movements: a moderately slow melodic movement, a rhythmic second movement and a slower harmonic final movement.
Hannah Gilmour
Contents note
1. Chill Before Dawn
2. Hor D'oeuvres
3. Waves of Light
Performance history
25 Mar 2010: Realised at Galapagos Art Space in New York City, in USA
07 May 2010: Music at the Edge: OKTA
21 May 2010: Realised at Academy of Performing Arts, Waikato University, in Hamilton
01 Jun 2010: Realised as part of the International Music Conference in New York
03 Jun 2010: Realised as part of the Sound, Sight, Space and Play Graduate Symposium in Leicester, England
24 Jun 2010: Realised as part of the Australasian Computer Music Conference in Canberra, Australia