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

2016 Waves

Intro/tattoo

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets) and Shannon Luk (viola da gamba & nyckylharpa)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Some Kinda Way

intro/tattoo

Some Kinda Way: part 1 (without)
By Connor D'Netto

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Some Kinda Way: part 1 (without)

Some Kinda Way: part 3 (through)

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Some Kinda Way: part 3 (through)

Some Kinda Way: part 2 (over)

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Some Kinda Way: part 2 (over)

outro/piercing

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets) and Shannon Luk (viola da gamba & nyckylharpa)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

outro/piercing

interlude/nails

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets) and Shannon Luk (viola da gamba & nyckylharpa)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

interlude/nails

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

Feeling More Like

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Shannon Luk (viola da gamba)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Feeling More Like

The Long Way Home feat. Big Billie Roy

Today we’re talking about a feeling that can hijack your life in seconds: anger.

Dr Christian Heim opens with a gripping real-life case, someone whose explosive anger nearly cost him his family and career. Then we go under the hood of the “anger engine”: what fires in your brain, what floods your bloodstream, and why your muscles tense the moment frustration flips to fury.

But this isn’t just theory.
You’ll learn two science-backed tools Dr Heim uses with his patients:

A rapid reset to stop a blow-up before it happens

A long-term retraining method that turns raw anger into calm, focused determination

Want more self-control and emotional strength? Pull up a chair.

#128 Turning anger into determination: Dr Heim’s Two-Step Anger Fix

In this episode Dr Christian Heim explores why we feel so isolated in a world ruled by scrolling, notifications and social media. He explains the quiet global shift away from screen-time and toward real human connection, community, conversation and face-to-face time. Practical ideas for reducing loneliness, improving digital wellbeing and rebuilding genuine relationships

#129 The Great Turn Back: from Phones to People

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


BenjaminHeimxCourtenayCleary - Babylon

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.


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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.

BenjaminHeimxCourtenayCleary - Babylon

Ben Heim

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