Welcome to ‘Small Ensemble Waves’, our celebration of new Australian music being written for small forces in abundance. In some ways we’re going back to where it all started (Playlist 1: Chamber Waves January 2015), with another chamber music playlist.  This time we’ve kept to quite small ensembles, of 3-6 acoustic instruments.  When we were considering chamber music for inclusion in this playlist, we distinguished between works written for uniform or homogenous ensembles, of instruments from one family (string quartet, clarinet trio, brass quintet), and works written for mixed chamber configurations, with a wide spectrum of tone colour. The playlist here includes works from both groups. We hope that you enjoy!

Small Ensemble Waves - March 2016

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

2016 Waves

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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

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Bottin to the Classics - Bach Air BWV 1068

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

Ruinations is a portrait of the horrific reality we as a human race have created through the pollution, mechanization & destruction of our planet.

This piece was written for Dr. Wayne Dorothy and the Hardin-Simmons University Concert Band.

Ruinations (2016) - for wind ensemble

Jarrett Hoffman, Clarinet
Nicholas Hatt, Violin
Jordan Galvarino, Cello
Magnus Villanueva, Piano 

Transits” is inspired by experiences I've had traveling on planes, trains and buses while half-asleep. The wild sounds of these vehicles are created by independent elements, hard to distinguish from each other, overlapping in repeatedly different ways. Musicians are positioned on all sides of the audience, playing material that is partly un-synchronized.

Transits

unfinished, instrumental (for now) original tune.  Everything written and recorded by me in an outdated version of garage band and an m-audio interface, chambered telecaster made in my shop, bass is a schecter stiletto, drums are a midi loop.  copyright 2018

David Hanlon's Album

rebuild (instrumental)

Recorded with my smartphone, looped with rolandcube 40xl amp
Guitar_loop#4

Ziuuum

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

Composer | Performer | Producer | Artist

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