Work
Irirangi (Meditation)
for taonga puoro and flute with pre-recorded backing
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Sample: 0’00” – 1’00”
from Bridget Douglas & Al Fraser | Silver Stone Wood Bone
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About
In Irirangi (Meditation) the composer is seeking to invoke Irirangi, a spirit voice that can be heard at times when music is performed. Of the phenomenon, Johannes Andersen wrote,
“Te Rangi Hīroa remarked casually that the people when singing together often thought they heard a floating voice, or spirit voice singing with them; they called it Irirangi. It was a chance remark but I remembered it when, at Whareponga, I first heard, as it were, a faint voice sounding above the voices of the women singing. I asked Hon. A.T. Ngata who was present, if the faint voice, to which I drew attention, was what they called Irirangi; he said, Yes; and soon one of the women who also must have heard it, raised her pitch and sang the same note as the faint voice.”
Performance history
01 Aug 2019: Performed by Bridget Douglas (flute) and Alistair Fraser (taonga puoro) for Stroma at Hannah Playhouse, Wellington
15 Oct 2021: Chamber Music NZ | Silver. Stone. Wood. Bone. (New Plymouth)
18 Oct 2021: Chamber Music NZ | Silver. Stone. Wood. Bone. (Nelson)
21 Oct 2021: Chamber Music NZ | Silver. Stone. Wood. Bone. (Napier)
03 Nov 2021: Chamber Music NZ | Silver. Stone. Wood. Bone. (Christchurch)
05 Nov 2021: Chamber Music NZ | Silver. Stone. Wood. Bone. (Wellington)
13 Nov 2021: CANCELLED: Chamber Music NZ | Silver. Stone. Wood. Bone. (Auckland)