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Spotify YouTube recording available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 score available from Reed Music program note This collection was devised by Damian Barbeler, Barry Cockcroft, Stuart Greenbaum and Adam Pinto in haphazard fashion at a dinner party, in October of 1999. After several reds, the proposal … Read more
Spotify recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 Greenbaum Hindson Peterson Glenn Riddle, piano GHP9501 (mov.2) First Light Yvonne Lau, piano Fellowship of Australian Composers (mov.1, The Moon), score available from Promethean Editions program note Ice Man is a programmatic work in three movements. It can … Read more
Spotify recording available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 score available from Wise Music program note These two miniatures were commissioned by pianist, Elyane Laussade, to form a set of variations by Melbourne composers on the unofficial Australian anthem, Waltzing Matilda. Being a national theme, it has … Read more
Spotify recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 Tunes for Mademoiselle John Martin, piano Wirripang Giants in the Land Ian Holtham, piano Move Digital score available from Wise Music program note This piece is inspired by M. C. Escher’s famous 1960 lithograph, Ascending and Descending, showing … Read more
Spotify score available from Wise Music program note i. Remote Connection ii. Satellite Mapping iii. Journey into Darkness The phrase ‘remote connection’ has an inherent friction to it, conjuring both distance and closeness. Its common usage refers to wireless devices sharing information; but I’m interested in the human allegory. We can experience loneliness in the … Read more
Spotify recording available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 score available from Wise Music program note In 2006 Google Earth was just a year or two old and provided an unprecedented ability to view the Earth as photographed from satellites in space on a home computer. One … Read more
recording available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 score available from Promethean Editions program note These pieces present rhythmic puzzles which ‘allude’ to corresponding visual ‘illusions’. Solar Eclipse explores the ratio 3:4. The syncopation within this ratio seems to generate a vortex of rhythmic gravity within a … Read more
Spotify YouTube recording available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 score available from Wise Music program note i. Lavender for Hanna ii. Fanfare for Elizabeth iii. Night Sky iv. Taurus v. Beats per Year vi. 90 Years Living on Earth This collection of piano miniatures spans around … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note This short work for solo piano was commissioned by Vanessa Sharman for an album of new music taking the idea of a lullaby as a starting or departure point. The title of this work – Entering the Universe of Dreams – suggests a doorway into the subconscious, fantasy, … Read more
Spotify recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 800 Million Heartbeats Sarah Watkins ABC Classics CD+score available Firestarters II Emma Sayers Promethean Editions score available from Promethean Editions program note The title of this piece refers to the use of contrary motion, which defines its thematic … Read more