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Performed by orkest de ereprijs and Enikő Gősi, and conducted by Rob Vermeulen, at the 20th Young Composers Meeting, Apeldoorn, 2014. Awarded the ensemble ereprijs commission.

Cabbages and Kings

Inspired by "The First Circle" by Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays. Performed by Divergence Jazz Orchestra conducted by Jenna Cave 26 July 2013. Recorded by Greg Ghavalas.

Circles In Life

"Rarified Air Elegy" (excerpt 5mins 59 secs) 2014, by Elissa Goodrich

Cut from: Rarefied Air Elegy - the remixed soundart work (full length 7 minutes 21 seconds) premiered at Sonorities International Contemporary Music Festival (Belfast, UK) April 24th, 2015.

 Original mix from: "Dusk to Dawn D-Evolving - An elegiac audio-visual 'field report' on the loss of birds in the region" (length 35 minutes), by Elissa Goodrich (soundart / artistic director) and Michael Carmody (video).

Caerwen Martin - cello, 
Elissa Goodrich - percussion / bowed percussion, sound art / composition,

"Dusk to Dawn D_Evolving" premiered at ICU, Castlemaine, Victoria, August 23-24th, 2014, as part of Goodrich & Carmody's seedpod residency with Punctum Inc. and projected
in Cardiff, Wales September 17-18th, 2014, for Double Dialogues' Performance Symposium, and at Concha Gallerie de Nazelle, Toulouse, France, March 20-31st, 2015 for 18th Traverse Video Art Festival. 

Image _D2D D-Evolving still by Mchael Carmody (2014)

Rarified Air Elegy

The 'Frida Kahlo Portraits' was premiered by the Australian String Quartet at the National Composers Forum (Adelaide) in 2010. The work is comprised of 5 miniatures, each based on a self-portrait by Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo. The collection musically emulates the forlorn autobiographical themes that Kahlo explores throughout her artistic oeuvre. 

'Frida Kahlo Portraits' for String Quartet (2010)

'Athena' for soprano, cello, and piano (A. Mellos 2013, rev. 2014)
Madeline Cain, soprano; Daniel Pesca, piano; Hyun Ray Kim, cello
Live recording: November 12, 2014, Kilbourn Hall
The Eastman School of Music 
Text by: Emily Kendal Frey (used here with permission)

Athena (soprano version) A. Mellos

This piece was written on AYO National Music Camp 2015 and was performed by the AYO tutors and conducted by James Judd. The work has two movements entitled ­­The Ridge and The Valley. The musical motifs throughout the work reflect the turbulence and tranquility of nature so evident in the appearance of mountains. While the work is not literally programmatic, I experimented with different melodies, rhythms and harmonies that could convey images of mountains and valleys in sound.

Mountains

A little testmix excerpt from a 4 day/night session of long form Rainwire Prototype recordings at The Wired Lab, NSW, Australia. Read an overview on Rainwire here :

http://noyzelab.blogspot.com/2012/02/creativity-complexity-part-2-rainwire.html 

A paper and live performance about this project were recently presented at Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA at  Balance/Unbalance 2015 Conference. A free PDF download of the paper presentation is available :

http://www.noyzelab.com/research/RAINWIRE-PROTO-BUNB2015-4web.pdf

Future updates on Rainwire project will be via :

rainwire-project.blogspot.com

Acknowledgements: Rainwire is currently supported by Australia Council for the Arts, Arts NSW and The Wired Lab

David Burraston - RAINWIRE PROTOTYPE - 18 June 2015 [LittleTstmixExcerpt]

A compositional exploration into sound design and musique concrete. Constructed exclusively with raw and digitally manipulated samples I captured of various springs, wires, metallic and mechanical objects. 

HeartSpring

Pedro Alvarez 
New Forms of Asymmetry (2015) 
for guitar and ensemble 
Diego Castro Magas, guitar 
Ensemble Interface 
Leeds, UK, 18/11/2015 
www.pedroalvarez.info

New Forms of Asymmetry

Opening section of work Chromoson - an immersive audio-visual experience

Chromoson

A Sense of Space (2015/16)
for flute, guitar, and soprano with percussion – 10′

Premiere: 5 March 2016, Alba Bru Carci (flute), Diego Castro Magaš (guitar), Peyee Chen (soprano/percussion)
St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield, UK.

View score -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NQqjQV-aYBRUJvi413yqjfr0LyHRS_u-/view?usp=sharing

A Sense Of Space

Jassa Joint

1st movement of "An Australian Backyard Suite". This 6-part composition depicts various flora and fauna commonly found in Australian gardens.

The movements are:
Lorikeet
Fire Ant
Tree Fern
Blue Tongue Lizard
Cicada
Poinciana

This piece received 2nd Prize in the Franz Schubert International Composition Competition in Vienna in 2012.
It was also selected for performance by the Fresh Squeezed Opera Company in 2014.

Lorikeet (Live)

5th movement of "An Australian Backyard Suite". This 6-part composition depicts various flora and fauna commonly found in Australian gardens.

The movements are:
Lorikeet
Fire Ant
Tree Fern
Blue Tongue Lizard
Cicada
Poinciana

This piece received 2nd Prize in the Franz Schubert International Composition Competition in Vienna in 2012.
It was also selected for performance by the Fresh Squeezed Opera Company in 2014.

Cicada (Live)

Also known as "Sol Tempest", if you want the more pretentious title. Written in December 2011, revised January 2012 at National Music Camp.

Summer Thunderstorm

Matthias Bamert
West Australian Symphony Orchestra

This work was commissioned as an education piece, and is
designed to showcase the sections of the orchestra at the circus or at the zoo:
Brass (opening): fanfare, welcome to the circus/zoo;
Woodwinds: the monkeys;
Strings: the trapeze/the swans;
Percussion: lions and tigers;
Tutti, and brass fanfare to end.
The conductor may pause at each new section to introduce the instruments
of the orchestra, or may have the opening few bars of each section of music
played before performing the piece without pause.

Roar!

For solo soprano and SSAATTBB. Commissioned and recorded by The Australian Voices, 2012. Conducted by Gordon Hamilton.

Dedicated to William Duckworth and Jocelyn Wolfe.

Text:
DROUGHT

BY JUDITH WRIGHT

The summer solstice come and gone,
now the dark of the moon comes on.
The raging sun in his pale sky
has drunk the sap of the world dry.
Across the plains the dustwhirls run
and dust has choked the shrivelling tree.

This is my world that dies with me, 
cries the curlew in the night.
I have forgotten how the white
 birdfooted water in the creek
used in spring to call and speak.
All is fallen under the sun
and the world dies that once I made.

The strength that brandished my green blade,
the force uncoiling from the cell,
 drains like water from a wrecked well,
 says the dried out corn of the earth.
The seed I cherished finds no birth.

Now the dark of the world comes on.

Drought (choral)

Title: la grotta azzura (ambient mix)
Date: 2007, 2009 

Description: Ambient mix of 'la grotto azzura' (the blue grotto), originally created for AAIR Radio Ana Capri Remix competition hosted by the London School of Architecture in 2007. All samples utilised in the remix were recorded around the Island of Capri and provided by AAIR. Sound editing and composition/remix performed in Logic Pro.

​Competition judges included Brian Eno (UK) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (JAP/USA).  As there were too many good submissions, AAIR decided to not award only one winner. La grotto azzura was featured first amongst all international submissions published online. Remix Competition site now inactive.

IMAGE CREDIT: 'The Blue Grotto' by late Romantic Painter Heinrich Jakob Fried.

la grotto azzura (ambient mix) - 2009

Fold

Cello duo about a blowfly, a rhinoceros beetle, and a mosquito. 

Bugs was performed live on 3MBS on 9th November 2010 as part of their Live at the Convent series.
Cellists: Alister Barker and Chien-Hsie Ong

Bugs - Cello Duo

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