Mana Cycle (for Planeswalker Positivity)

Soundtrack for a documentary film of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 2004
All sounds recorded with clarinets only.
Produced and mixed at Cl-Audiostudio, winter 2003 by Claudio Puntin

solo: Universe

Written for Planeswalker Positivity Week 1: Gideon Jura

Intended as a battle hymn for Gideon as he learns to become a knight on Bant. After his first planeswalk and the loss of his friends due to his own hubris, Gideon begins the long path to redemption.

Composer & Vocalist: Cameron Lam
Sound Engineer: James Passfield

Album art by Luke Shilson-Hughes
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Path To Redemption (Gideon Jura)

Written for Planeswalker Positivity Week 2: Jace Beleren

Jace is a mind mage with the power of telepathy and the ability to erase memories. This piece gives us a look into Jace's damaged mind, hearing the inner voices of others blend with his own nearly-forgotten memories.

Composer: Cameron Lam
Voices: James Passfield, Cameron Smith, Cameron Lam
Sound Engineer: James Passfield

Album art by Luke Shilson-Hughes
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Where Do The Memories Come From? (Jace Beleren)

Written for Planeswalker Positivity Week 3: Liliana Vess

Liliana is a dark mage unafraid to utilise the powers of death and unlife to achieve her goals. Macabre Waltz depicts Liliana raising the dead forcing them to dance until their limbs give way.

Composer: Cameron Lam
Solo Cellos: Scott Gambling
Sound Engineer: James Passfield

Album art by Luke Shilson-Hughes
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Macabre Waltz (Liliana Vess)

Written for Planeswalker Positivity Week 4: Chandra Nalaar

Chandra Nalaar is a pyromancer, unafraid to trust her emotions and instincts to lead her to where she needs to be. When she finds herself incarcerated and awaiting execution for being different, Chandra's planeswalker spark ignites leading her to another place in the vast multiverse.

Composer: Cameron Lam
Solo Piano: Damian Griffin
Sound Engineer: James Passfield

Album art by Luke Shilson-Hughes
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Ignition Point (Chandra Nalaar)

Written for Planeswalker Positivity Week 5: Nissa Revane

Nissa Revane draws her power from an instinctual connection to her homeland, granting her dreams and visions. Her connection even allows the land itself to come alive to guide and defend her. But something sinister has been trapped inside the world, and all Nissa can hear now is it looming, ready to break free.

Composer: Cameron Lam
Percussion: Kaylie Dunstan
Sound Engineer: James Passfield

Album art by Luke Shilson-Hughes
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Anima: Soul of the Land (Nissa Revane)

Written for Planeswalker Positivity Week 22: Nahiri, The Lithomancer

The working of stone into tools or weapons is an ancient art, that often marks the dawn of a civilisation. Nahiri, the Lithomancer uses magic to form perfect weapons straight out of stone, teaching this art to the Kor of Zendikar in the ancient past. Up until recently she slept, a dormant mother of 
civilisation.

Composer: Cameron Lam
Flute: Alvin Mak
Recorded by Peter Smith, Mixed by Cameron Lam

Album art by Luke Shilson-Hughes
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Sleeping Sword and Stone (Nahiri, The Lithomancer)

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Performed by Harry Heart and Gordo. Written by Harry Heart.
Recorded at REC Studios by Tom Garnett and at Arthur St Studios by Harry Heart.
Mixed and produced by Vincent Nydam and Harry Heart.
Mastered by Andrew Edgson at Studios 301.

Epiphany

'The Fine Art of Conversation' (2015) for string quartet performed by the Huon Quartet.

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'The Fine Art Of Conversation' for string quartet (2015)

POWERFUL WOM*N, 2017! A new song cycle in three movements. Music by me, text by Mary Eliza Fullerton (Australia, 1868–1946), Lesbia Harford (Australia, 1891-1927), and Elinor Morton Wylie (USA, 1885-1928). 

This sneak peek contains excerpts from each movement. Performed live (brilliantly) by Cassandra Humble, soprano, and Andrew Georg, piano. Thank you! 

Program notes by Cassandra: "Rachel and I share a strong interest in equality, feminism and in observing how we fit into this world. The stories we chose to tell through this cycle reflect the journeys of Australian women through life - whether that journey starts as a little girl in rags singing on a door step or as a socialite disconnected from the world. The power of a story loved well and the magic that comes with the retelling is such that the injustices and struggles in the world can be forgotten for a while, and just being present can be enough."

SNEAK PEEK! Excerpts from song cycle "Powerful Wom*n"

When We Speak (2016) by Lisa Cheney (Australia, 1987)
for cello and electroacoustic track
Commissioned by the VIPA Festival for Ensemble Interface
Premiered June 30, 2017 in Valencia, Spain
Recording Engineer/Mixed by Jason Thorpe Buchanan

Ensemble Interface
Christophe Mathias, violoncello

PROGRAM NOTES & BIO:
When We Speak for solo cello and electroacoustic track seeks to comment on broader issues surrounding gender inequality and these considerations on my compositional practice. Throughout the work the interweaving of many ‘voices’ is present in: my own musical language, the music and speech of respected Finnish composer, Kaija Saariaho, the expression of the live cellist and their own literal voice.  This, at times semi-improvised cello part, weaves its way through an atmospheric soundscape challenging and questioning the role of the live musician to blend in, fight against or rise above the sound world. The accompanying recorded musical sounds are extracted from Saariaho’s own compositions, with special weight placed upon manipulated excerpts from Saariaho’s own solo cello work Sept Papillons.

Lisa Cheney is based in Melbourne. Her music communicates through varied styles which often explore notions of connection and authenticity through fascinations with the ‘edge’ of beauty; expression, poeticism, fragility, delicacy, resonant space, pacing, light and dark and atmospheric soundscapes. Cheney’s work has been described as ‘atmospheres of unfathomable spaciousness’ (Partial Durations), ‘melodic slivers with plaintive intensity’ (The Australian) and ‘fantastic and frightening in its detail and colour’ (Resonate). Her body of work incorporates orchestra, chamber, voice, acousmatic collaborations and works for theatre and ballet. Her music has been commissioned and performed by The Southern Cross Soloists, The Australian Voices, the Queensland Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, Plexus, Syzygy Ensemble, Sydney Antiphony, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Ballet amongst others. She is a Director and Curator of Making Waves: an online listening/podcast space dedicated to Australian composition and is currently completing her PhD in Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM), supervised by Elliott Gyger.

When We Speak (2016) by Lisa Cheney - Ensemble Interface

@2017 
for solo double bass

Written for Will Hansen (SPIRAL) 
Premiered March 2017 @ the Red Rattler, Marrickville

Dark Matter to me is the indescribable. No arrays are the same; each with their own flickers and flecks. I wanted to capture out of the double bass the unexpected. The sound worlds I’m exploring come from the bass’ natural resonance, yet in these sounds lie so much intricacy, each microsection so intrinsically ornate and rich.

Dark Matter

Original orchestral work by Lisa Cheney that includes an orchestration of the Russian folk song Along the Peterskaya performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by Elena Schwarz.

Audio recorded by Toby Frost and Veronika Vincze of ABC Classic FM.

Sleeping Sword and Stone (Nahiri, The Lithomancer)

Cameron Lam - Composer

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