Listen back to all the Soundcloud recordings featured during 2016 on Making Waves playlists.

2016 Waves

This is from 2010 - commissioned and performed by Eclectica Trio (Amanda Lovelock, Anna Coleman and Charise Altmann).
The clarinets take on the role of storyteller for this piece – they growl like a wolf, squeal like a pig, and huff-and-puff with increasing vigour to blow the house down. Unfortunately, they do it all in the wrong language (“this contemporary music just sounds like random notes to me!”). Will you still be able to follow the story? Don’t stress, it all ends happily ever after.

The Three Little Pigs

Shine, Glow, Glisten

Dr Heim with host Hurricane H. answer caller’s mental health questions on the 
ihealth channel show “Climb to your Prime with Dr Christian Heim”
Last Friday each month 9pm EST, Saturday 11am AEST


Ask a question live! https://www.theembctvnetwork.com/the-ihealth-channel.html#/

Or email us your episode suggestions: caroline@drchristianheim.com


#115 Do power and status change us?

Dr Heim with host Hurricane H. answer caller’s mental health questions on the 
ihealth channel show “Climb to your Prime with Dr Christian Heim”
Last Friday each month 9pm EST, Saturday 11am AEST


#116 Techniques to cultivate safety and gratitude

If you could ask a couple who’s been together for over 40 years one question—what would it be?
In this episode, Drs Christian and Caroline Heim draws on insights from their world’s largest study on long-term relationships to reveal the top questions young couples are dying to ask those who’ve made love last for decades. From navigating conflict to keeping the spark alive, this is the real talk younger couples crave answered by those who’ve actually lived it.

This is Part 1 of an eye-opening series that connects generations in the name of lasting love.
Whether you’re three years in or still figuring it out, this episode has something for you.

#117 5 Questions Every Young Couple Wants to Ask Couples Married 40+ Years / Part 1.

If you could ask a couple who’s been together for over 40 years one question—what would it be?

In this episode, Drs Christian and Caroline Heim draws on insights from their world’s largest study on long-term relationships to reveal the top questions young couples are dying to ask those who’ve made love last for decades. From navigating conflict to keeping the spark alive, this is the real talk younger couples crave answered by those who’ve actually lived it.

This is Part 2 of an eye-opening series that connects generations in the name of lasting love.

Whether you’re three years in or still figuring it out, this episode has something for you.

#118 5 Questions Every Young Couple Wants to Ask Couples Married 40+ Years / Part 2

#119 Why some people talk too much (and what to do about it)

"A Prototype of Chaos & Love" is a long-form piece that I played on a number of my original and customized instruments (the Experibass, Expericello, deconstructed piano, custom trombone, flutes, metals and cymbals, prepared guitar and violins, bells and objects). The sound of some instruments was processed post recording, but their unique nature was kept intact.

It’s improvised and chaotic, but also delicate and warm, a sense of tonality emerges in different sections, but it doesn’t last too long.

When I recorded it, I left myself feel the intensity of each sound and the effect of different instruments under my fingers. There were no visual cues in my mind, just sounds taking my full attention.

This piece creates an intense and visceral experience; it’s likely going to push your tolerance for unfamiliar sounds and uneven musical structures.

The art cover is made with a chaotic “painting” that I assembled by using pieces of instruments and materials.

A Prototype of Chaos & Love

Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeydzqPpY70
Remix: https://soundcloud.com/benheim/babylon-remix


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String Quartet No. 2 in E minor by Connor D'Netto
recorded live @ MICMC 2015 - 18 Jul 2015

Winner of the Australian New Works Award, presented by Chamber Music Australia

Performed by the Noga Quartet, winner of the 7th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition

String Quartet No. 2 in E minor - live @ MICMC 2015

Minimalist saxophone quartet recorded at Melba Hall at the University of Melbourne. 
The Jive is a lively piece in three sections. It employs minimalist techniques such as canon, adding rhythmic cells, cross-fading, resulting patterns and mensuration canon. Some of these techniques are used more freely than in strict minimalism. I experimented with different canonic textures and the resulting patterns created when shifting motives between the different saxophones. Motives in rhythmic unison as well as cross-rhythms are explored in the last part of the piece. Dynamic swells and funky rhythms make The Jive somewhat unpredictable…

The Jive

I. Suddenly for soprano, flute, and piano (A. Mellos 2014)
Madeline Cain, soprano; Daniel Pesca, piano; Caroline Sonett, flute
Live recording, November 12, 2014 Kilbourn Hall, The Eastman School of Music


I. Suddenly from 'Three Poems of Yannis Ritsos' - for soprano, flute, and piano

for two flutes, percussion, piano
Music X, Blonay, Switzerland
July 2010
Timothy Munro and Pethrus Gardborn, flutes
Jeremy Malvin, percussion
Erika Dohi, piano

These dark notes drifting takes its title from a poem by 9th-century Chinese poet Li Po.  Inspired by a Chinese folk tune, the piece evokes distant flutes, coloured by the sounds that one might hear across a valley at night in the spring.

Spring Night in Lo-Yang hearing a flute
In what house, the jade flute that sends these dark notes drifting,
scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-Yang?
Tonight if we should hear the willow-breaking song,
who could help but long for the gardens of home?

These dark notes drifting

Making Waves is a monthly series of curated playlists streaming one hour of quality, new composed music.  Founded in 2015, Making Waves shines a spotlight on the music of Australian composers. Fresh playlists are released on the first day of each month and older playlists are made available all year round via our archives; perfect for those with just a few minutes to explore one track or for hours perusing a myriad of diverse sound-worlds.


The project offers wider exposure to emerging composers, their music and the talented performers who champion it. We also provide an easy-to-access platform for listeners to sit back and enjoy a curated hour of exciting new music or explore our living composers more actively.  The playlist themes (and media through which they’re shared eg. Soundcloud, YouTube) evolve each month depending on the content received directly from our talented composers.

At its core Making Waves is a curated listening space. In 2016 we branched into producing our own content through a special project, Making Conversation, thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign. Making Conversation: Australian Composers Project is a series of podcasts and vodcasts presenting the human side of living Australian composers, released on popular audiovisual and social platforms mid-2017.
Composers Lisa Cheney (Melbourne) and Peggy Polias (Sydney) are curating this project.

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Ben Heim is an Australian composer and creative technologist currently based in New York City. His work spans contemporary classical music, film scoring, live immersive experiences, audiovisual performance, and virtual reality. He has composed music for banking apps in the UK, virtual reality games in Australia, documentaries in New York, audiovisual mapping works in Iceland, and for contemporary classical ensembles across the world.
In his audiovisual installations Heim creates dynamic systems in which strong two-way connections are forged between auditory and visual components. This produces synesthetic experiences as crosstalk between the senses multiplies. Heim's works have been performed across Europe, Australia and the USA in events such as Tallinn Music week (Estonia) and Splice Festival (UK). He has collaborated with many organisations to create immersive events, including the London Contemporary Orchestra, and at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik.

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