score excerpt from 'Reveria im neuen Stil' (1994, solo piano)
download Scores and Manuscript Facsimiles
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'Reveria im neuen Stil' (1994) solo piano - facsimile of manuscript, 17 pages
Download ZIP folder (10.4meg)
'MODULES FOR PIANO' book one - 2006-07 - download score PDFs below
SCHERZO
TRANSVERSAL
REPTILIAN PATTERNS
LEAF
CRESCENT
ALPHAMIRRAR
ALPHAMIRRAR two-pianos Version2
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program notes and project descriptions
March 2004
Notes on BLUE SECTOR
Commissioned through the ABC REGIONAL PRODUCTION FUND 2003-04
The pieces in blue sector were constructed via digital processing and
manipulation of field recordings gathered in north east victoria, january
and february 2004.
All share similar material and formal elements ; re-framed/re-shot/re-focused
via discrete addition and subtraction of layers of acoustic 'film'/or
transparencies - vignettes open into vistas and vice versa.....
My grandmother's old bluthner piano ringing out against the evening
cicadas, the hum of a local quarry, a dawn cacophony of birds, splashing
in the creek on a sunday morning... found sound objects and organic
materials exist in symbiotic relationship with each other; as an
observational, aural and formal experience, the barriers between natural and
machine environments become increasingly arbitrary in a sonic sense -
formally distinct integrities become interchangeable with those of the
other.
Blue Sector attempts to synthesize various aspects of these diverse
environments via 'organic' forms and structures suggested and partially
determined by the flow of natural events in time - simply by listening and
observing the goings-on of reality in a temporal scheme.
Echoes of stockhausen, musique concrete, gavin bryars, b-grade horror films,
harold budd, ryuichi sakamoto, wagner's 'parsifal' - they're in there
somewhere, a segment of an old piece 'reveria im neuen stil' appears in the
blue sector 2 remix piece. everything else happened in real time, and I
tried not to get in the way too much.
Thanks to Anthony Burgess and his book 'Earthly Powers' which I read while
doing the piece. And finally, thanks to everyone at the ABC and the
Regional Production Fund for making this work possible.
JGA '04
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June 2005
project blurb, BIOCENTENARARY-AFTERIMAGE - commissioned through the ABC REGIONAL PRODUCTION FUND 2005
An evolutionary and aesthetic theme park of the digital world, Biocentenarary-Afterimage explores differing
cultural and perceptual modes of experience via abstract musical representations and textual interpolations.
Blurring the bouundaries between art, science, technology and the media, and utilising (for its inspiration and content) texts
as diverse as Marshall McLuhan's 'The Gutenberg Galaxy', Terence Mckenna's 'New Maps of Hyperspace' and 'The Geometric
Model of Consciousness' ; newly-posited futures across all areas of next-stage human evolution - scientific, aesthetic,
biological, technological, perceptual and conceptual - are embraced in a genre-defying voyage of discovery
in non-linear and modular, technological-aesthetic forms.
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June 2007
project blurb, TRANSTEMPORAL EMPIRES
- commissioned with assistance from the Australia Council for the Arts -
'the audio object article Trantemporal Empires contains the following discrete and indiscrete object-elements :
entropied spherical implosions
dub and modified enviroments
hyperdimensional acoustic re-fractions
modal transparencies and reflections
a fulcrum of equidistant dodecaphony
the multiplication and extension of homophony into space
quantum-aesthetic dilemnas
an undersea orchestra
rehabilitated meta-acousticians testing sand particles from the beach at eternity
interstellar emotional migrations
mixed media messages
the virtual hokum baroque ensemble
disembodied rhythmic dissension "
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2005
blurb, MUSIK FOR 10 PIANOS
Like arctic water coursing through a glacial monolith, or a balloon trip across an ancient countryside (without Richard Branson),
Musik for 10 Pianos is a work of polymath depth and beauty.
Fusing minimalism, modality and counterpoint, 'MUSIK....' draws on the influences of Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Brian Eno, the
music of Palestrina and Victoria, musique-concrete and the avant-garde - to forge a new hybrid from the chrysalis of these
soundworlds.
Myriad piano lines morph into melodic textures, shifting continental plates of harmonic rhythm into new temporal dimensions,
across an expanse of evolving sonic euphoria.
The novel instrumentation and arrangement features piano, strings, guitar, mandolin, dobro, harmonium, miscellaneous kitchen
percussion and other sequenced found sounds, drawn from field recordings - and used in the special enviromental remixes
included as part of the release.
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