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YouTube – (from 16:29 to 22:26) score available from Wise Music program note This serenade for cello and piano is taken from a larger work, Dance Music for Concert Halls. There is a form of ‘dance music’ in the classical tradition whose purpose does not require any dancing. And I often wonder what it means, therefore, … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note The Moon is in synchronous rotation with the Earth, always showing the same face. The most visible celestial object in night sky, the Moon’s phases have been a guide, mystery and delight to humanity for millennia. This piece was commissioned by Cherry Hense and Will Ekselman to celebrate … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note Life in a Day was commissioned by Riley Lee for the 2008 World Shakuhachi Festival (Sydney) with assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. It exploits the natural tuning of the shakuhachi but also seeks to re–contextualise its cultural association through the influence … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note A natural satellite, moon, or secondary planet is a celestial body that orbits a planet or smaller body, which is called its primary. Earth has one large natural satellite, known as the Moon. No “moons of moons” (natural satellites that orbit the natural satellite of another body) are … Read more
/ 039 Spotify CD available Deep Time Nicholas Fitter (bassoon), Anthony Lais (piano) Salisbury Records score available from Wise Music program note This piece is inspired by M. C. Escher’s famous 1960 lithograph, Ascending and Descending, showing stairs which descend impossibly back to an upper starting point. This illusion can also be found in music. … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note i. luminous, radiant ii. serene, ethereal, timeless iii. drifting away This duo is written for my good friends Paul and Trish Dean. Northern lights provide one of Earth’s beautiful ‘unearthly’ spectacles. A trick of science and nature, charged particles from the sun are trapped in our planet’s magnetic … Read more
CD available Beat Me Barry Cockcroft (tenor saxophone), Matthew Boden (piano) Reed Music Drive James Nightingale (tenor saxophone), Kerry Yong (piano) JLN Productions score available from Reed Music program note Noyz in th’ ‘Hood is in a blues–rock style with a rap shuffle thrown in for good measure. It is a celebration of all the … Read more
score available soon from Wise Music program note Elsewhere. What is elsewhere? Where is it? It’s other, but it is also inside us. We can be absent from a place. We can also be absent in the present. Lost in time. It can fill our thoughts. It can be transportive. Nostalgic. The life of the … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note Escape Stairs was written for and is dedicated to Melbourne flautist, Helen Williams. Cast in two movements, the first features minimalist patterns in the piano while the flute plays unsynchronised in different metre and tempo, creating a dreamy, disconnected atmosphere. The second movement is more of a whirlwind … Read more
Spotify score available from Reed Music program note These four short pieces were designed for school–level players. I wrote what I would like to play if I was learning a new instrument and the subtitles are a reflection of my school days: 1 or 2 old mints in my pockets 3 or 4 laps around … Read more