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This is from 2010 - commissioned and performed by Eclectica Trio (Amanda Lovelock, Anna Coleman and Charise Altmann).
The clarinets take on the role of storyteller for this piece – they growl like a wolf, squeal like a pig, and huff-and-puff with increasing vigour to blow the house down. Unfortunately, they do it all in the wrong language (“this contemporary music just sounds like random notes to me!”). Will you still be able to follow the story? Don’t stress, it all ends happily ever after.

The Three Little Pigs

Pf. Garrick Ohlsson

In 2021, I was approached by Paul Kildea from Musica Viva Australia to write a piece for Garrick Ohlsson for his 2023 Australian tour. He would be playing music by Franz Liszt, Samuel Barber, Franz Schubert, Alexander Scriabin, and Frédéric Chopin (of which Garrick is a famous interpreter). While researching and reflecting on how my creative voice could complement the program I stumbled on a description of Garrick’s playing saying that he possesses a “calmly demanding presence”. 

I decided I would channel a piece by Liszt which evokes the same descriptors for me, Sposalisio (meaning marriage) from Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage). In this piece, Liszt describes Raphael’s high-renaissance painting, Sposalisio, in musical form. Though some of the motivic and structural scaffolding owes to the Liszt, conceptually and stylistically, the piece has come to resemble something more pluralistic than a marriage. Convocations combine the unlikely and disparate elements of the romantic piano giants, modernist styles, an Australian tour, a Tasmanian composer, and an American concert pianist in a congregation that aims to give life to a spiritual soundworld.

Convocations (2023)

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Divinity (ODESZA Remix) [feat. Amy Millan]

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String Quartet No. 2 in E minor by Connor D'Netto
recorded live @ MICMC 2015 - 18 Jul 2015

Winner of the Australian New Works Award, presented by Chamber Music Australia

Performed by the Noga Quartet, winner of the 7th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition

String Quartet No. 2 in E minor - live @ MICMC 2015

Minimalist saxophone quartet recorded at Melba Hall at the University of Melbourne. 
The Jive is a lively piece in three sections. It employs minimalist techniques such as canon, adding rhythmic cells, cross-fading, resulting patterns and mensuration canon. Some of these techniques are used more freely than in strict minimalism. I experimented with different canonic textures and the resulting patterns created when shifting motives between the different saxophones. Motives in rhythmic unison as well as cross-rhythms are explored in the last part of the piece. Dynamic swells and funky rhythms make The Jive somewhat unpredictable…

The Jive

I. Suddenly for soprano, flute, and piano (A. Mellos 2014)
Madeline Cain, soprano; Daniel Pesca, piano; Caroline Sonett, flute
Live recording, November 12, 2014 Kilbourn Hall, The Eastman School of Music


I. Suddenly from 'Three Poems of Yannis Ritsos' - for soprano, flute, and piano

Pink Season

23 Dog Festival Directions

34 Goofy's Trial

All credits go to the original owner(s) of this Musical aka Joe Tracz and Joe Iconis. I own nothing. 

Lyrics:


[Rich]
Freshman year
Didn't have a girlfriend or a clue
I was a loser just like you
Good times would only
Soar by

I was gross
As every female would attest
My sexting was a futile quest
My little penis was depressed
He was so lonely
Poor guy

I was hopeless, hopeless
I was helpless, helpless
Every time I walked the hallway I would trip
I was stagnant and idle
I was so suicidal and then, then, then
Then, then, then, then, then
Then, then, then, then,
Then I got a Squip

[Jeremy]
You got quick?

[Rich]
Not quick. Squip.

[Jeremy]
I've just never heard of it before.

[Rich]
That's the point. This is some top-secret-can't-even-look-it-up-on-the-internet shit.

[Rich]
It's from Japan
It's a grey, oblong pill
Quantum nanotechnology CPU
The quantum computer in the pill
Will travel through your blood until
It implants in your brain and tells you what to do

[Jeremy]
So... It's like drugs?

[Rich]
It's better than drugs, Jeremy.

IT'S FROM JAPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
It's a grey, oblong pill
Quantum nanotechnology CPU
THE quantum computer in the pill
Will travel through your blood until
It implants in your brain and tells you what to do
It tells you what to do

It's pre-programmed
It's amazing
Speaks to you directly

You behave as
It's appraising
Helps you act correctly

Helps you to be cool
Helps you rule

Picture this
Nobody cares if you are late
'Cause even teachers think you're great
Your weekend's just a full-on slate
Of blowout benders
Of teenage rockstar splendors

Right now you're helpless, helpless
You are almost hopeless
On the school social map you're just a blip
But if you take my advice and if you
Pay the listed price, well then you
Go from sad, to interesting, to hip
Yeah, your whole life will flip
When you buy a squip

Hey, yeah, a squip
Yeah, yeah, a squip
A-ah a squip

No longer a drip when you've got in your grip
A SQUIP
A SQUIP
A SQUUUUUUIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPP


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IT'S FROM JAPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN

but srsly rich goranski could step on me and id probably be okay with it.

(plus holy shit, awesome vocals gerard teach me ur ways.)

The Squip Song

Mazes and Shit

Music, Lyrics: Dasu
Vocals: Kagamine Len * Dasu
Youtube MV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbEE17J3MIg

LYRICS
Pasintabi naman, ano?
Itatali na kita sa lubid ko
Sawang-sawa na rin ako
*Mama, Papa-'tay-

Sana nga'y magkasakit na lang ako
Para 'di na ko nasasaktang husto
"Isa pang panis na Bulalo!"
Mama, ma-tutulog na ako.

CHORUS
Tatakasan ko ang lahat ng 'to~
Wo-oh~
Mas maigi ba na ako'y tumakbo,
Papalayo sayo?
Nakakalunod ang kalokohan ko~
Wo-oh~
Kinabukasan sana'y wala na ko~
Wo-oh~

Madilim nanaman dito. 
Ilang araw ka na bang nanlulumo?
Wala namang nagbabago.
"Ha? *A n o  k a m o ? "

Mapaniil ang nais mo,
inalala sa higpit ng yakap mo
Bakit ba bihira kang sumagot :c
"A n o ?  A n o   k a m o ?"
Ohh~


CHORUS 
Tatakasan ko, para lang maglaho
na ko~
Mas maigi ba na ako'y tumakbo,
at bumalik sayo?
Matatanggap pa ba ng iyong puso?
Wo-oh~
Makasarili pa ba na tinatago ko,
Sayo?

Tatakasan ko ang lahat ng 'to~
Wo-oh~
Nalilito ako kaya ako'y tumakbo,
Papalayo sayo.
Nakakalunod ang kalokohan ko~
Wo-oh~
Kinabukasan sana'y wala na ko~
Wo-oh~

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English Lyrics

Um, Excuse me?
I'll hang you with my rope
I'm already sick and tired
(*Mom, Dad-dad-)
(*Mom, please kill-)
(*Mom, please turn it off-)

I wish I just got sick instead
Just so I wouldn't get hurt so bad like this
One more spoiled dish(Bulalo) please!
Mom, I'm going to sleep now.

CHORUS
I'll escape from all of these~
Wo-oh~
Is it better if I just run, 
away from you?
My stupidity drowns me so~
Wo-oh~
Tomorrow I hope I'm gone~
Wo-oh~

It's dark in here again.
How many days have you been depressed?
Nothing's changing.
"Ha? S a y  w h a t ?" 
(*An offended 'what's that?')

Your means are oppressive,
remembered by how tight your embrace is
And why do you barely even reply :c
"W h a t ?  S a y   w h a t ? !"
Ohh~

CHORUS END
I'll escape, just so I can
disappear~
Is it better if I just run, 
back to you?
WIll your heart take it?
Wo-oh~
Is it still selfish that I kept these away,
from you?

I'll escape from all of these~
Wo-oh~
I was also confused that's why I ran,
away from you.
My stupidity is drowning me so~
Wo-oh~
Tomorrow I hope I'm gone~
Wo-oh~

【Dasu ft. Kagamine Len】「Calorie」【Original/Tagalog】+Lyrics in Description

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Control (feat. Jerry Folk)

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for two flutes, percussion, piano
Music X, Blonay, Switzerland
July 2010
Timothy Munro and Pethrus Gardborn, flutes
Jeremy Malvin, percussion
Erika Dohi, piano

These dark notes drifting takes its title from a poem by 9th-century Chinese poet Li Po.  Inspired by a Chinese folk tune, the piece evokes distant flutes, coloured by the sounds that one might hear across a valley at night in the spring.

Spring Night in Lo-Yang hearing a flute
In what house, the jade flute that sends these dark notes drifting,
scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-Yang?
Tonight if we should hear the willow-breaking song,
who could help but long for the gardens of home?

These dark notes drifting

A new spin on Steve Reich's phasing technique, but the phasing is between an audio sample and a vocoder loop.

This is coal

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River Mountain Sky - orchestral music by Maria Grenfell
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These dark notes drifting

Maria Grenfell

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