Clocked Out

"Love to love your strings, baby" is an affectionate homage to disco strings.  I've taken inspiration from Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra, from the New York, Philadelphia and many other symphony orchestras, and the great arrangers who had a role in developing the disco sound.  My piece takes motifs and fragments from the golden era of disco and weaves them together with my own original themes to present a fantasy montage.  The title refers, of course, to the 1975 Donna Summer hit "Love to love you, baby."  It was composed for, and is dedicated to the Camerata of St. Johns.  Many thanks to the Australia Council for the Arts for their generous support.

Camerata of St. Johns string orchestra, Brisbane.
Performed 14th December 2013 at Queensland Conservatorium.
Created with generous support from Australia Council for the Arts. 

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www.camerata.net.au

Love To Love Your Strings Baby (2013) - Camerata of St. Johns string orchestra

From the album "From Small Things Grow"
Summer of Wisteria was composed for Topology and Clocked Out, and premiered on the “Seven Headed Music Machine” show in Brisbane Powerhouse.  Both of those ensembles thrive on rhythm, and the three movements of Wisteria abound with intricate cross-rhythms and syncopations.  When I came up with the opening motif, a line from William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! popped into my head – “It was a summer of wisteria…”  This seemed to capture something about the relaxed feeling and the dreamy textures which wend their way in and out of the music.  Mint juleps on the veranda, anyone?

Performers:
Soprano Sax - John Babbage
Violin - Christa Powell
Viola - Bernard Hoey
Bass - Robert Davidson
Piano - Erik Griswold
Recorded at Brisbane Powerhouse
copyright 2007 Erik Griswold all rights reserved

Premiered at Brisbane Powerhouse, 11 November 2007.

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Summer Of Wisteria - from From Small Things Grow (2007)

Clocked Out 
Erik Griswold and Vanessa Tomlinson
Prepared Piano and Found Objects
from the album "Foreign Objects"
Clocked Out | 2009

Foreign Objects (2009)

Water Pushes Sand is the title track of Clocked Out Duo's second album.  The album draws heavily on our studies of Sichuan percussion music, as well as our increasing interest in music for toy instruments.  

The track "Water pushes sand" uses rhythms from Sichuan Opera, substituting gongs and cymbals for prepared piano and western percussion.  We use the traditional rhythms as a springboard for increasingly abstract improvisations. In other pieces we use processed recordings of Sichuan percussion (Lindsay Vickery's "Delicious ironies (Sichuan)") and bicycle bells.

Water Pushes Sand (2002)

'Crocodile' - from Rogue

'Swimming' from Rogue

Clocked Out
Erik Griswold and Vanessa Tomlinson
Prepared Piano and Vibraphone
from the album "Time Crystals" 
Innova | 2015

Time Crystals (2015)

Bells

Fast-paced improvisation for restless times.

Clocked Out - Restless Times (2017)

Vanessa Tomlinson - Sonic Dreams (2018)

This Land is Mine (arr. Neal)

Heather
by James Wilkinson 
( & Steve Heather)
Strings: Neal

Heather (strgs: Kate Neal)

Afterall - from the staged theatre work 'Permission to Speak', produced by Chamber Made, directed/conceived Tamara Saulwick, sung by Gian Slater, Georgie Darvidis, Josh Kyle, Ed Fairlie

Afterall

Annie's Violence - from the staged theatre work 'Permission to Speak' produced by Chamber Made, directed/conceived Tamara Saulwick. Sung by Gian Slater, Georgie Darvidis, Josh Kyle, Ed Fairlie.

Annie's Violence

From the animation 'Novel Instrument' - animation Sal Cooper, Piano Jacob Abela

Novel Instrument

Falling from staged show While You Sleep. Strings: Phoebe Green, Zac Johnson, Isabelle Hede, Katherine Philip

Water Pushes Sand (2002)

Erik Griswold

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