'Still Life' is a graphic work for solo kingma-system flute. The score is presented in totality as a work of visual art, with reference to the Dutch still life paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries. 

The instrumentalist chooses the temporal form of the work, and each performance is therefore different.

This work was commissioned by flautist Saskia Willinge, and premiered at The University of Western Australia, 5/11/22.

Still Life (2022)

The Forecast (Live)

Performance-installation for alto flute, viola, percussion (water gong, coin chimes, prepared vibraphone), spatial electronics, and wishing well. Premiere 13/12/23, The Rechabite (AU). 

Comissioned by Decibel Ensemble with assistance from The Digital Score Project funded by the European Research Council European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme.

The Forecast

Dunes is a realisation of graphic score/art piece Contours (2017), and a response to Maureen Hudson Nampijinpa's painting Sand Dunes (Sunrise). Winner of the People's Choice Award at the 2017 UWA Ransom Prize for Composition.

Soprano: Jennifer Barrington
Violin: Shaun Lee-Chen
Violin: Jasmine Middleton
Viola: Rachel Hicks
Cello: Jeremy Garside

Performed on the 24th August, 2017.

Dunes (2017)

Pauline Oliveros' 'The Tuning Meditation', performed by the Chapel Choir of St George's College on 13/10/18.

Oliveros - The Tuning Meditation - Chapel Choir Of St George's College

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II: 6:00
For bass clarinet, snare drum, and quad-channel electronics (2017).

This two-movement piece samples from the speeches of a broad range of Australian public figures. The highly politicized content of the speeches, however, is shrouded. In this way, Impressions asks many questions pertaining to the politicization of art, and the role of music as a medium in our society. The ‘conversation’ of the vocal and instrumental components may be read as symbolic of the ways in which music can shape public opinion and action, and vice versa. 

Performed by Eljo Agenbach, Ben Greene, and Kate Milligan.
10th November 2017.

Impressions I, II (2017)

For baroque flute and electronics, composed in collaboration with flautist Jonty Coy. 

This work draws on the sound-world of the French Baroque, and makes many direct references (some subtle, others more overt) to historically informed performance. The electronic component of the work uses Ableton Live as the performance platform, and features both pre- recorded audio and effects applied to live performance.

Performed 16th November 2018.

Behind Closed Doors (2018)

Performed by the Perth Orchestra Project, November 2019.
With admiration and thanks to the busking community of the Métro de Paris.

Migrations is a work for electronics (tape and two stereo sets), string quartet, and four flutes. The work explores movement, transience, unrest, and the unfamiliar: commonplace sounds become disconnected from their sources and drift in patterns of migration within the performance space. Field recordings—which document various journeys in the Paris metropolitan rapid transit system—have been assembled into a lyrical montage, paying homage to Pierre Schaffer’s work in musique concrète and acousmatic listening.

Migrations offers the listener space to reflect on one of the defining elements of the contemporary zeitgeist: displacement, and its effect on the human condition. In a world where the global has, in many ways, become the local, what does it mean to feel at home?

Migrations (2019)

Disco dystopia
Textural study after film. Watch here: https://www.katemilligan.com.au/glomesh/
Found sounds processed in Ableton Live.

Kate Milligan

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