Name: The Girl with the Ash Brown Hair by Jane Aubourg
Duration: 4 min 39 s
Description: This piece was written in April 2014 for a dance/art short film by Tamara Elkins (yet to be released). The title is a reference to Debussy's The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, which was sampled to create this work.

"Regrowth" is an electro-acoustic track for pre-recorded string ensemble. The piece was written inspired by the beautiful scene of our Australian forests regrowing after the catastrophic bushfires of 2019-20. Seeing our forests stripped bare as far as the eye could see was immensely disturbing. And in stark contrast, only one month later, seeing how strong the force of nature really is as greenery began to emerge from the blackness was truly astonishing. Not only did this catastrophic event highlight the strength of nature, but the strength of humanity. In hardship, communities came together, people of all backgrounds helping each other, showing immense courage and compassion. But even more astounding, was as nature rebuilt, so did the people. People whose land had been burnt to nothing told inspiring stories of birds, pythons and kangaroos returning to their habitats, of the beauty they saw as nature rebuilt itself and of how grateful they were to live in their country and community. 

Using my string instruments, I tried to re-create the sounds and atmosphere of a forest rebuilding itself; rain falling, wood cracking, birds returning and leaves growing. The track begins imitating the organic sound of rain. I did this by recording the wood of my bow tapping on the strings (colegno) of my violin and viola. I layered about 15 different recordings of this sound, time stretching half at random to produce more chaotic rhythms. As melodic lines gradually emerge, the ‘randomicity’ of the rain sounds become progressively more and more organised, and as rhythms emerge, so does harmony, melody and structure. This represents our forests complex eco systems rebuilding and hopefully embodies the incredible resilience of our Australian people, Flora and Fauna,

Regrowth

danica hobden - guitar
elizabeth jigalin - accordion

soundtrack to a silent film with no silent film

PART TWO: a drinklet devine 
i. press play on a drinklet divine
ii. mix a teaspoon of sugar and a gentle shake of cinnamon on a plate 
iii. moisten the rim of your finest teacup with a lemon wedge
iv. dip your teacup rim in sugar/cinnamon mixture
v. in your teacup, poor and mix approx 150ml ginger beer,
15ml lemon juice and 60ml rum (optional) 
vi. garnish with a sprig of rosemary

track 1 - a drinklet divine

PART THREE: cheers for the ears
i. press play on track two at the qr code above
ii. raise your teacup and prepare a toast - either the toast on the tip of your tongue or using one of the toast prompts below
iii. toast to all those who might hear!

PROMPTS FOR TOASTS
* wink with one eye, then the other, whisper “swim carefully!”
* “shall all you cares beguile. only if you agree..”
* “you shall have a fishy on a little dishy, you shall have a fishy when the boat comes in, yo ho little fishy don’t cry, don’t cry, yo ho little fishy don’t cry”

Cheers To The Ears was created for House That Dan Built's "Festival in a Box" 2021

track 2 - cheers to the ears

This piece was written in April 2014 for a dance/art short film by Tamara Elkins (yet to be released). The title is a reference to Debussy's The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, which was sampled to create this work.

The Girl with the Ash Brown Hair

"The Synthetic Glasshouse" is an electroacoustic work inspired by Australian artwork "In Dreams" by Lilli Waters (pictured).
 The piece imagines the sound world of the fish as it moves from being motionless to trying to escape from the plastic bag. The music reflects the immense beauty of the fish, as well as the reality that this fish is trapped.

November 2017.

The Synthetic Glasshouse

SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS TRACK WITH YOU ALL!!! 

In Due Season
Music by Rachel Bruerville
Texts by Valerie Volk
Premiere performance by Adelaide Chamber Singers conducted by Carl Crossin in St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide, May 2018
Commissioned by Adelaide Chamber Singers Supporters Fund 
Audio recording by Disk Edits

Video available on YouTube:https://youtu.be/9ROjp5JWdJ0?si=52Cf0KDxT5FJybA0

Brahms' Requiem

In Due Season

Written by Emma Whitworth
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Josh Mills

The Long Road Home

This live recording of 'Aroha' for string quartet was made at Wigmore Hall at its world premiere by the Elias Quartet on May 23rd, 2019.

Aroha (Māori) – (noun) affection, sympathy, charity, compassion, love, empathy; also a given name. This work is dedicated to my partner Natalie Aroha.
 
I wanted to capture the wit and excitement of conversation in this quartet. Sometimes players are “speaking” together to form a coherent shared thought; at other times they are very quickly responding to, imitating, or interrupting one another: the juxtaposition of these two types of material also forms a global, structural conversation.
 
Much of the material is derived from either exploring or responding to the song Pokarekare Ana, which gives some of the melodic, harmonic and intervallic ideas heard throughout. The song is heard in its original form only at the end of the piece, where it emerges from the piece’s climax that brings together both the slower and faster material from earlier in the work. 
 
Pokarekare Ana is a traditional love song from New Zealand, most probably composed, or disseminated, by Māori soldiers training for the First World War. The last line of the refrain is “Ka mate ahau i te aroha e”.

Aroha

Written and Recorded by yMusic
Mixed by Jason Lader at Soundslikemylife Labs

Turkey Transfer

for violin and stereo electroacoustic tape

Studio recording: November, 2020; Lily Tait (vn); Nathaniel Currie (audio engineer/production)

premiered: 7 March 2020 at "Supernaculum" at the Brooklyn Arts Hotel, Fitzroy; Lily Tait (vn)

[image: detail of photo taken at Aireys Inlet, Victoria(January, 2019)]

sun study ii

maker of music, mischief & other fine things
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I am a composer, violinist, and media artist. I love playing with loops and interactive systems. I love both the sense of detail that looping affords, and the serendipitous moments of interaction or improvisation.

This has led to a diverse range of collaborations such as performing as an electric violinist with loop pedals, performing as an improviser, creating interactive installations, composing game soundtracks, and writing research papers.

My work draws from minimalism, post-minimalism and folk music, and is rooted in my practice as a violinist. I have studied composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, as well as media arts and philosophy at the University of Wollongong.
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In 2010 I won a MusicOz Independent Artist of the Year Award (InstrumentaI) and was an Artist in Residence at the Wollongong Youth Centre during 2013/14. I currently play solo and with new music group the music box project.

The Girl with the Ash Brown Hair

Jane Aubourg

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