Fragments of Gratification

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

Ice Man

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

Matilda Deconstructions

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

New Roads, Old Destinations

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

Piano Sonata No.2

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

Satellite Mapping

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

Three Optical Allusions

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

Four Thoughts

YouTube (The End of Winter) recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 Mercurial Patrick Lawrence, piano Reed Music score available from Wise Music program note These Four Thoughts (2001/04) reveal the use of solo piano as a direct medium for artistic expression but also as a … Read more

But I Want the Harmonica

Spotify recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 But I Want the Harmonica… Jeanell Carrigan, piano Vox Australis Giants in the Land Ian Holtham, piano Move Digital score available from Promethean Editions program note When I was about 6 or 7 years old, the school librarian … Read more

Collected Miniatures (1989

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 i. Innocence (in stillness) ii. Portrait and Blues Hymn iii. Homage iv. Looking to the Future Innocence (in stillness) was written in 1995 to mark the birth of Olivia O’Brien. It … Read more