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A Cracticus Fancie

for piccolo and fixed audio

Year:  2024   ·  Duration:  6m 18s

Year:  2024
Duration:  6m 18s

Composer:   Tessa Brinckman

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Tessa Brinckman: A Cracticu...

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A Cracticus Fancie melds together an archival recording of Denis Glover (1912-1980) reading his famous New Zealand poem, The Magpies, with field recordings, and contemporary live/processed piccolo sound-worlds. It was inspired an Australian First Nations story of cracticus tibicena saving the people from perpetual darkness, Denis Glover visiting Tessa Brinckman’s grandparents as a mischievous raconteur, a re-imagining of Denis’ poem from the viewpoint of a magpie, the Irish folk song The Magpie, and the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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