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YouTube video coming soon score available from Wise Music program note The Sea of Tranquillity on the moon is not really a ‘sea’ as such but a lower altitude plain, the result of earlier volcanic activity. Tracts of land can be purchased on the Sea of Tranquillity at $37.50 (US) an acre. Apparently over 400,000 … Read more
Spotify score available from Wise Music program note The 2017 film, The Space Between Us, features a scene where a boy, born on Mars (of human parents) sees Earth for the first time. Initially from a distance (seen as a planet on approach) and then experienced on the ground. While this work does not convey … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note This instrumental quartet was commissioned for the Australian Ballet’s 2019 Bodytorque: atelier season with David McAllister, Artistic Director and choreography by Timothy Coleman. The music accompanies a scene from the 2000 novel, The Dressmaker, by Australian author Rosalie Ham. The first performance was given by musicians of Orchestra … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note Tetris dreams are not imaginary. Those who have played the computer game for extended periods may experience restless sleep due to somnambulist shape-fitting – the tortured equivalent of treading a water wheel. One imagines that one has achieved progress but the mental exertion, as with a fever, is … Read more
score available soon from Wise Music program note i. Lagoon ii. The Ritz iii. The Jungle iv. Planetarium Submerged v. Heading South “Soon it would be too hot.” This is the opening sentence of J.G. Ballard’s prescient 1962 novel, The Drowned World. It paints a picture of global warming, melting ice caps, rising sea levels … Read more
Spotify CD available 800 Million Heartbeats NZTrio ABC Classics score available from Wise Music program note i: 1815 – And then the Sky was filled with Ash ii: 1816 – The Year Without a Summer The eruption in 1815 of Mt. Tambora on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa was over four times as big as … Read more
Spotify score available from Wise Music program note These two interludes are adapted from the middle two movements of Sonata for Violin and Piano, written in 2000 for Melbourne violinist, Marianne Rothschild. In 2003, Miki Tsunoda and Caroline Almonte (Duo Sol) recorded the 3rd movement, The Infinite Heartbeat for CD and in 2006 they performed … Read more
YouTube score available from Wise Music program note The title of this piece, Organised Lounge, is a play on words in reference to the term ‘organised sound’ invented by French-born composer, Edgard Varèse. Specifically, this piece was created as a companion piece to his famous percussion ensemble work, Ionisation, for 13 players. My work takes … Read more
Spotify recording available The Five Elements Riley Lee and Enigma Quartet ABC Classics, 2020 score available from Wise Music program note Oxygen is vital to human life. It’s all around us. And perhaps there is oxygen on other planets. The Hubble telescope detected evidence of molecular oxygen on Jupiter’s moon Europa. But we haven’t been … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note This brief bon-bon was originally sketched in November 2000 as a belated homage to Argentine composer Ástor Piazzolla who died in 1992. Over a decade later I re-scored this version for piano trio at the invitation of Caroline Almonte and The Sutherland Trio. Piazzolla eschewed the idea of … Read more