This month we’re so pleased to have another current Making Waves Intern, Mark Wolf @markwolfcomposer, guest-curate the playlist. About the Temporal theme, Mark writes:

    “Whether gripped by the unfolding drama of a new novel, or immersed in the onscreen action of an epic film, or even stimulated by listening to an engaging piece of music, have you ever enjoyed the experience of an effortless concentration so deep that you lose your sense of time?

    The works featured in this playlist all exhibit a paradoxical timeless quality. Each composition is connected with a temporal process, varying in nature from structured improvisation, ‘mobile moment form’ and slowly evolving spectrums of sound, all supporting temporal independence and ensemble freedom. Temporal manipulation is also observed through the exaggeration, expansion and fragmentation of musical time and events influenced by the natural world and architectural spatial design. These pieces are all in some way temporally ambiguous, successful in challenging the listeners’ perception of chronometric time.

The Making Waves team were especially delighted when Mark and Marlene touched base with their playlists to find that the music in both sets covered Space and Time!  Many thanks to Mark for his curatorial input this month: you can find out more about Mark here: https://makingwavesnewmusic.com/composers/mark-wolf/

Temporal Waves (July 2017)

Performed by Toni Berg and Akito Goto, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

they, who fly with wings of glass

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

Sound streams Emerging Composers Workshop
Alliance Français, Toronto
April 2016
Soprano: Whitney Mather
Piano: Wesley Shen
Percussion: Daniel Morphy


WOLF, Mark - 'Without An Exit' (2016)

A compilation of multiple samples of my accordions broken at different times throughout the past year. Focusing on showing unaltered acoustic sounds. And majority of the samples were recorded a few minutes at a time of improvised passages.

I was not expecting these sounds to come out! :D

Severed Gizmo

Unravelling Graphite is a slowly evolving spectrum of sound. From the first sketches in late 2014 to finally having to stop myself from further editing in mid 2016, this piece has an unusual biographical nature, a ‘natural’ development resulting in material dictated by an accumulation 20 months worth of compositional whims. The outcome of this has been a work in which material is morphed and twisted, quickly collapses, slowly rebuilt, forevermore transformed. 
The accompanying image is a visual representation of the piece which I sketched during some frustrating days midway through composing.  

Unravelling Graphite was commissioned by the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University as part of the 2014 Silver Harris & Jeff Peck Composition Prize. 

Performed and premiered by the Kurilpa String Quartet (Graeme Jennings, Brendan Joyce, Yoko Okayasu, and Katherine Philp)

Unravelling Graphite (2014-2016)

"Soil" is a concert piece for a computer, producing feedback from the built-in microphone and dispersing it into eight speakers in surround disposition via an automated Max patch.  Computer is performing a time-specific sequence of basic pfft~ processing, overtone series-based transpositions, and channel panning between the eight mono speakers.  

This work explores a scenario, in which the products that nature yields, cannot disintegrate.

|please|
MAXIMUM VOLUME YIELDS MAXIMUM RESULTS

Soil (2016)

Composed by Chloë Hobbs, recorded by Ensemble Offspring, 2016.

Delphic (2016)

An ocean (2019)

The Very Best of Rush Broadcasting Live: Rare Gems from the Vaults, Vol. 2

2112: Grand Finale (Live) (Remastered Radio Recording)

The Spirit of Radio (Live) (Remastered Radio Recording)

Anthem (Live) (Remastered Radio Recording)

2112: The Temples of Syrinx (Live) (Remastered Radio Recording)

Departure duo:
Nina Guo - voice
Eddie Kass - double bass
Computer, transducers, electric guitars - electronics

“Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these
words? Has he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they
may eat their own dung, and drink their own urine with you?” [2 Kings 18:27]

Song 27 (2020)

Making Waves is a monthly series of curated playlists streaming one hour of quality, new composed music.  Founded in 2015, Making Waves shines a spotlight on the music of Australian composers. Fresh playlists are released on the first day of each month and older playlists are made available all year round via our archives; perfect for those with just a few minutes to explore one track or for hours perusing a myriad of diverse sound-worlds.


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WOLF, Mark - 'Without An Exit' (2016)

Mark Wolf Composer

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