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

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

HYPHAE (2024) for full orchestra. Performed by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dmitry Matvienko. Recording provided courtesy of ABC Classic.

Hyphae(2024)

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

Selected songs from our new album 'Life' - OUT NOW

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THE GOVT. KNOWS : youtu.be/4zH9Zca1vRM

Pizza

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

Points of Infinity (2017)
For viola and playback

Performer: Beth Meyers

Points Of Infinity

Recording of world premiere performance of Biome, by Alex Turley, commissioned and performed by Forest Collective, conducted by Evan Lawson.
Recorded at the Australian Institute of Music, November 15 2018.

http://www.forestcollective.com.au/gala
http://alexturley.com/

Alex Turley - Biome

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

A new album from Third Coast Percussion and Devonté Hynes. Available October 11 from Cedille Records

Perfectly Voiceless

Inspired by the way colours refract and separate as light passes through glass, reflected in the slow movement and close harmonies of the four voices.  

Voices - Ffion Edwards, Ana Isabel Beard Fernandez, Alice Bell, Emma Roberts
Conductor - António Breitenfeld Sá Dantas

Performed in the Unheard Concert Series at Burley Fisher Books, 5th July 2019.

Shaded Glass - Four Voices [2019]

Weeds

All Star but They Don't Stop Comin' but It's a Phasing Piece a la Steve Reich

BUBBLES (2019)
For Double Bass and Ensemble

Composed by: Valentin Jost
Commissioned by: Network For New Music, Philadelphia, USA
Performed by: Robert Black and Network For New Music Ensemble


Program note:

This work, dedicated to Robert Black, explores a light, fun, playful, innocent, and childlike musical space. The entire Solo Double Bass part, as well the rest of the sound world in general, is filled with many kinds of unique bubbles, floating and popping all around.

JOST - BUBBLES

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

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

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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.

 Listeners, we encourage you to explore current and past playlists and discover more about our featured composers. 

Composers, we encourage you to send us links to your streamable audio via our website. Visit: www.makingwavesnewmusic.com for more information.

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

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