Name: Clapham, Rhyan - Drum Dreamer (WP)*written for Claire Edwardes by Claire Edwardes - PERCUSSIONIST/COMPOSER
Duration: 6 min 6 s
Description: Performed at Canberra Symphony Orchestra's "Power of One" Concert, 2019 National Portrait Gallery

Made with Koup Music Generative AI. AI is the tool, not the creator. 

Koup Music gave me all sounds for this track, which I sampled and re-worked into this arrangement. Full length version and more edits to come!

Big thanks to Koup Music, Kopi Su Studios, and TedxSydney.

Boom Boom Boom - for TEDxSydney 2024

Start with a seed and see how it grows. 

I formed the first ideas for this track by working with Koup Music AI. 

Originally shown at 'You and AI' in 2024 for TEDX Sydney. This track has come a long way since it was first shown, and I'm excited to be sharing it. 

Big thanks to Kopi Su Studio, TEDxSydney, Doug, Alex and the Mixing and Mastering class at Liveschool Australia for their support and assistance with this!

How Things Grow

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Dirty Chai (Coffee Machine Study)

You Are Not Alone (Mix)

Excerpts only. 

Performance by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Matthew Styles (saxophones) and Umberto Clerici (conductor). 

Recording courtesy of ABC Classic

Superhighway (Sax Concerto) Excerpts

Excerpts from Wire and Pine (2025).

Wire and Pine pays tribute to the small, homemade Celtic harp that was fashioned, without any plan or blueprint, by my grandfather. Guided only by his intuition and knack for woodworking, he created an instrument that fostered my love of harp folk music and ultimately set me on my future career path (albeit in an indirect way).

Made from the materials he had to hand - soft pine wood and fishing wire – the instrument can no longer be tuned; the hard metal tuning pegs (read: washers and bolts) having sunk into the pale wood. However, its musical life has taken on a new dimension in Wire and Pine.

One recent summer in my childhood garage (not the most pristine of recording conditions), I sampled each of the harp's strings, naming the pitches one by one as I plucked and recorded. These recorded notes - transformed, re-tuned and for the most part transported from the context of that dusty garage – comprise the backbone of this electroacoustic work, which aims to set free the music inherent in this beloved little instrument. Now and again, the sonic dust of the garage makes it into the tail of a harp note. The sounds cannot be clinically separated from their real-world context without losing some of their spirit.

The work moves from exploring its recognisable sound source to a dense and reverent sound world. The harp’s plucks and scratches are joined by a chorus of morose voices. Finally, fishing wire flies as the notes become unbound from any semblance of Western tuning.

Full track on Bandcamp. 

Listen in full

Wire and Pine - Part I

Too excited to share this special excerpt of Sensitive Instruments with performer, poet and chemist Geosmin Turpin. Performed live in July 2024 at Local Edition, Glebe.

Sensitive Instruments (Live at Local Edition, July 2024)

Performed at Canberra Symphony Orchestra's "Power of One" Concert, 2019 National Portrait Gallery

Clapham, Rhyan - Drum Dreamer (WP)*written for Claire Edwardes

Claire Edwardes is an internationally acclaimed percussion soloist, chamber musician and artistic director of Sydney based innovative new music group, Ensemble Offspring. She has been described by the press as a ‘sorceress of percussion’ and is well known for her powerhouse style of playing and unique stage presence. Claire is the only Australian musician to win the APRA Art Music Award for Excellence by an Individual three times (2016, 2012, 2007), is the recipient of an Australia Council and Freedman Fellowship and the winner of numerous European instrumental and percussion competitions (resident there for seven years) as well as 1999 Australian Young Performer of the Year. Recently appearing as soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the Myer Music Bowl and on Play School to an audience of thousands of children, Claire is passionate about percussion and new sounds being widely disseminated.

Clapham, Rhyan - Drum Dreamer (WP)*written for Claire Edwardes

Claire Edwardes - PERCUSSIONIST/COMPOSER

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