Performed by Yoshie Ueno (Piccolo) and Tosiya Suzuki (Great Bass Recorder) at Ebila Hall, Tokyo, 26 November 2020.

Supported by the New Zealand Japan Exchange Programme.

Video and Audio: Takuma Kamaishi.

https://vimeo.com/486578461

Expanding Pixel Threshold (2020)

for Solo bassoon
Written for and performed by Jack Cremer as part of the ANAM Set commissions in 2021.

Recording credits:

RISE Funding
ANAM
ANAM musician and associate artists
Producer: Duncan Yardley
Engineer: Russell Thomson

Temporal Sweetness Profile (2021) Live Recording

Deepfake was commissioned by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players for their 2020 season. The premiere performance was displaced by the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic and was finally premiered by the SFCMP on 3 April 2022. Thanks are due to Eric Dudley, Richard Aldag, Lisa Oman and Amadeus Regucera.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Eric Dudley, Conductor

Jeff Anderle, bass/contrabass clarinet
Tod Brody, bass flute
Kate Campbell, piano 
David Chisholm, Electronics
Stephen Harrison, cello 
Jeff Robinson, contrabassoon 
Richard Worn, double-bass

deepfake (2022) Live Recording

From SOUNZ 2022 NZ Composer Sessions Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Benjamin Northey
Audio recorded by RNZ Concert
Film funded by NZ On Air

Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, 23 September, 2022.

Pierre Boulez a la discothèque (2022 version) Live recording

Generative AI training, prompting and concatenation by Rodrigo Cádiz

Fountain: Form 1; after "Pierre Boulez a la discothèque"

Form 1 (after "Pierre Boulez a la discotheque"  by David Chisholm)
AI training, direction and structural concatenation: Rodrigo Cádiz 
Orchestral adaptation: David Chisholm
Auckland Philharmonia 
David Kay, Conductor

November 13th 2024
Kiri Te Kawana Theatre, Ao Tea Centre
Tamaki Makaurau|Auckland 
Aotearoa |New Zealand

Fountain | Four Generative AI Forms for Orchestra : Form 1 (2024)

Composed for BalletLab's "Origami" by Phillip Adams
Performed by Silo String Quartet

Origami (2006) for string quartet

Composed for BalletLab's ORIGAMI by Phillip Adams

Pavane for a pop-up book (2006) for string quartet

Composed for BalletLab's ORIGAMI by Phillip Adams
Octet performed by Silo String Quartet (live and virtual versions)

Ikebana (2006) for semi-virtual string octet

Composed for BalletLab's ORIGAMI by Phillip Adams
Performed by Silo String Quartet

Mountain (2006) for string quartet (sans electronics)

To watch the live premiere performance - go to https://vimeo.com/channels/284823/36073473

Live recording of the premiere performance of KURSK:An Oratorio Requiem at the Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre on October 22, 2011 for the Melbourne Festival. 

Music David Chisholm
Poetry Anzhelina Polonskaya

Conductor Eric Dudley

Producer Sarah Greentree
Recording Producer Myles Mumford

Bass-Baritone Christopher Richardson
Soprano Jessica Aszodi
1/4 tone Flugel Horn/B♭ Trumpet Tristram Williams

Male Consort
Steven Hodgson, Jerzy Kozlowski, Irving Dekterev, Anthony Mackey, Timothy Reynolds, James Payne, Brenton Spiteri, Daniel Todd

Arcko Symphonic Project
Flute 1/Pic 2 Emma Sholl
Flute 2/Pic 1 Andrew Macleod
Clarinet/Bass Clarinet Aviva Endean 
Contrabassoon/Bassoon Brock Imison
Wagner Tuba/French Horn Geoff Viking Lierse 
Trombone John Gluyas
Bass Trombone Charles MacInnes
Tuba Jonathan Woods
Timp and Aux Percussion Timothy Phillips 
Percussion Arwen Johnston
Holographic Singing Bowl Liz Millar
Harp Jessica Fotinos
Prepared Piano James Rushford
Violin 1 Aaron Barnden, Andrea Keeble, Charlotte Ryssenbeek
Violin 2 Jessica Bell, Zachary Johnston, Elizabeth Welsh
Viola Ceridwen Davies, Phoebe Green, James Munro 
Cello Caerwen Martin, Judith Hamman, Edwina Cordingly
Bass Nic Synot, Chloe Smith

Male Consort Preparation Timothy Phillips 
Russian Language Coach Nicholas Cowall 
English Translation Andrew Wachtel 
Répétiteur Kim Bastin
Orchestral Assistant Kiya Van der Linden-Kian

KURSK-AN ORATORIO REQUIEM (2011 Live recording)

HARP GUITAR DOUBLE CONCERTO (2016) 
David CHISHOLM

Jessica FOTINOS, Harp
Mauricio CARRASCO, Guitar
Maxime PASCAL, Conductor

ARGONAUT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Alister BARKER, Cello
Madi CHWASTA, Percussion
Natasha CONRAU, Violin
Rohan DASIKA, Double Bass
Melissa DOECKE, Piccolo | Flute | Bass Flute
Sam DUNSCOMBE, Clarinet | Bass Clarinet
Aviva ENDEAN, Clarinet | Contrabass Clarinet
Laila ENGLE, Piccolo | Flute | Alto Flute
Phoebe GREEN, Viola
Judith HAMANN, Cello
Jonathan HEILBRON, Double Bass
Sef HERMANS, Trumpet
Brock IMISON, Contrabassoon
Zachary JOHNSTON, Violin
Jasper LY, Oboe
Charles MACINNES, Trombone | Bass Trombone
Benjamin OPIE, Oboe
Roman PONOMARIOV, Horn 
Leigh RAYMOND, Violin
Christian READ, Viola
Louisa TREWARTHA, Trumpet
Erkki VELTHEIM, Concertmaster
James WANNAN, Viola
Elizabeth WELSH, Violin
Paul ZABROWARNY, Cello

World premiere performance recorded by Jem SAVAGE at Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo on 2 September, 2016 at the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music 
Mixed by Myles MUMFORD

Argonaut was supported by the Australian Government through Australia Council for the Arts, Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, the Sidney Myer Fund and the Robert Salzer Foundation.

Maxime Pascal’s appearance at 2016 BIFEM was supported by Joan and Barry Miskin with international travel support from Institut français

Harp Guitar Double Concerto (2016) Live Recording

from Nine Last Turns, a collaboration with Myles Mumford, Studio Periscope and the Australian Mechanical Organs Society in 2008, Loaded Barrel is a transcription for midi generated barrel organ samples (from a 1896 Harmonipan Fr.Wrede) of a work for Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ "the end of the illusion:homage a jean baudrillard).

for the full Nine Last Turns web experience go to www.davidchisholm.com then under work, and web and installation embedded links you can see and hear more....

Loaded Barrel (2008)

Part of the development in September 2011 of "Parlour Trick: an electromagnetic peepshow" with Aria Co, Latitude 37 and Ashley Smith. This work was written for Latitude 37 as a show piece which they have subsequently performed and is now part of their repertoire of new works for old instruments. For more on Parlour Tricks - check out Aria Co's sound cloud which features the four songs developed at the Melbourne Recital Centre in September , with words by the amazing Elizabeth Campbell.
http://soundcloud.com/aria-co/sets/parlour-tricks-development/

But here you can enjoy Latitude 37's Laura Vaughan on Viola da gamba, Julia Fredersdorff on Baroque Violin, and Peter de Jager guest harpsichordist from Aria Co. 

Photo image by Albert Comper. Recorded by Myles Mumford.



Trick (2011)

Rung(first movement)
for electric guitar, contrabass recorder, violin, double bass and sensor-triggered bells
In memoriam Kian Rezwan
2014, revised 2015

Ensemble Vortex (Suisse)
Performing at Société de Musique Contemporaine de Lausanne
29/2/2016

Rung: I

Rung (second movement)
for electric guitar, contrabass recorder, violin, double bass and sensor-triggered bells
In memoriam Kian Rezwan
2014, revised 2015

Ensemble Vortex (Suisse)
Performing at Société de Musique Contemporaine de Lausanne
29/2/2016

Rung: II

Midi-triggered "Frankenstein" guitar finale from The Experiment: A musical monodrama (2015)

Galatea Instrument built by Nara Demasson and Benjamin Kolaitis

To watch The Experiment go to 
https://vimeo.com/125866083

"Galatea" from The Experiment

World premiere LIVE performance of Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eric Dudley at Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo on Friday 7th September, 2018 as part of 2018 BIFEM.

...and I am but an echo, a ghost, a mirror of your flower (2018) Live Recording

Tammy Brennan, Librettist
David Chisholm, Composer

Aivale Cole, Soprano
Myriander Hill, Double Bass

Live recording, Level 3, Black Box Okhla, New Delhi, Sunday January 5, 2020
Mathias Durand, Recording Engineer
Mazen Murad, Mastering Engineer, Katara Studios

Tian's Fado

David Chisholm is internationally recognized as a composer defined by diverse and hybrid collaboration and a curator and producer of vision and courage. He was composer in residence for Philip Adams’ BalletLab and an Associate Artist for Malthouse Theatre, before becoming the founder and director of the highly acclaimed Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music and its roster ensemble Argonaut. David has been an artist in residencee at HIAP in Helsinki, EMPAC in New York, Centre Intermondes in La Rochelle and Camargo Foundation in Cassis. He was the first Australian composer to be a featured guest of the Encuentro Internacional de Compositores in Santiago, Chile. David was an inaugural recipient of the Victorian Government’s Creator Grants. He holds a PhD from University of Melbourne and is currently Urumatua o te whare o ngā pukōrero pūoro|Head of the School of Music at Waipapa Taumata Rau|University of Auckland, Aotearoa|New Zealand.  A member of SOUNZ and the Australian Music Centre, David is published by Babel Scores, Paris.

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