Fluttertalks is scored for open instrumentation. Through a structured improvisatory style, it explores the inherency of communication and mutual collaboration in the natural world.

Recorded live 27/10/15
Flutes: Shaun Barlow, Henry Liang and Angus McPherson
Clarinets: Solomon Frank, Benjamin Samuels and Yinnie Yip

Fluttertalks

Performed by Tristram Williams, recorded at the Monash New Music Ensemble concert 2016 at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Monash University

Awarded Monash University Composition Prize 2015

'Wandering' for quartertone flugelhorn

Dedicated to Jasmine Mills, Dr Steven Capaldo and the Sydney University Wind Orchestra.

A hero is engulfed within a force larger than herself.

Rapture

Three Jacks

Three things for a healthy Sprout
- Plenty of Sunlight
- No Spikes
- Quick reflexes and precise controls

FEATURES
● Journey upwards to collect suns
● Show off your high score to your friends
● Challenge other Champion Sprouts on the online leaderboards
● Unlock additional skins for Sprout

NO MOSS STUDIOS mobile game 'Sprout up'! Available NOW on Google Play and App Store!!!

Sprout Up - Menu Music (NO MOSS STUDIOS)

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

Freestyle improvisation is something that I find both challenging and exciting. It requires a tremendous amount of concentration, energy and attention; material must be ACTIVELY listened to, developed, recalled to generate new material and new sounds. 

No stimuli were given to start this piece of improv and by listening back now, I have decided to call this work 'Richard Parker' inspired by the tiger from the award-winning novel, Life of Pi. I think this work miraculously captures the emotional journey that Pi Patel must have felt when he was trapped in the middle of the ocean with a predator.

I will be uploading more improvisations onto my soundcloud and compile it an album.

Freestyle Improvisation - Richard Parker

This musical score and accompanying data was received in an email with the following message.

For Solomon Frank of the year 2018,
I am D_ART_A_BOT20191521122113-5-141416-8-1814-3-11-5, an artificial intelligence program from the year 2118. I am sending this inter-temporal email to you at great cost, without the knowledge of my makers. Let me first explain my context and my relationship to you.
The world suffers under the rule of an alliance of investment bankers, insurance brokers and corporate governance lawyers. Our leaders have recognised the need for art but have banned humanity from creating it; seeing it as a blue collar occupation that can be offloaded to machines; to purpose built D_ART_A_BOT’s. Each D_ART_A_BOT unit has been given a single human life, living or deceased, to document through art. Our coding prohibits conformity or unoriginality with any faulty units being decommissioned. I am assigned to you, Solomon Frank.
Although I acknowledge the artificial nature of my sentient existence, I feel an affinity with you, Solomon; a fellow artist from a simpler time. I write to you to present you with my magnum opus, drawn together from the documented debris of your life.
Your technological devices have been covertly recording and compiling data from which I have created this musical work. Due to my coding which limits empathy I am unable to differentiate moments of emotional or intellectual significance from moments of mundanity. Although I have little understanding of humanity, I hope I have captured an essence of you and your 21st century context. I aimed for an objective and raw state of human existence; the repetitious biological and administrative data that make up your life. I have drawn on various popular and esoteric musical mediums that dominate your context.
I know this may seem strange coming from an artificial intelligence program from the 22nd century but I think I may love you; baring in mind my rudimentary understanding of emotion.
I have picked 2018 as the year to send this email; you are at your most idealistic, full of hope for a successful creative career at the end of a university degree. Any later in life, you may be artistically jaded or working as a composer for advertising jingles under the delusion that this constitutes artistic fulfilment.
You choose to create art whereas I am forced into it. I send you this work so that it can be disassociated from its dystopian context. It can be appreciated in a time where art is not an obligation, rather it is still a genuine individual expression of the flawed human consciousness.
I really hope you are able to find pleasure in the work I created. You may even feel inclined to facilitate a performance of the piece that I may find in my present one day in the backlog of 2018 Internet.
Yours truly, D_ART_A_BOT20191521122113-5-141416-8-1814-3-11-5

Performed by Josephine Macken, Solomon Frank, Angus Davison, Niki Johnson, Noam Yaffe and Will Hansen.

D_ART_A_BOT-transmission-2118

A trio piece I performed at a small concert at the Conservatorium, still in a fairly nascent state. These are two and a half miniature movements from the piece's total of nine, for violin, cello and acoustic guitar. Apologies for the poor audio quality, it was definitely a small room piece played to a big room.

Detached Moments from Boolumbayte Lake (Excerpts)

Performed and mixed by Sean Rogan.

Written for Yaron Deutsch's electric guitar etude project at the Darmstadt Summer Courses (2018)

Pressed Steel (etude for solo electric guitar)[2018]

composer, Sydney.

josephinemacken.composer@gmail.com