"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 combination of two elements that form one gem is represented by the two horns, weaving within the orchestra as opal does within rock, close harmonies creating glimmering frequencies. The slow movement of ancient water is a melodious line shared between each soloist, which progresses to a beautiful stillness that shows off the upper range of the horn. In opposition to this, as human industry cuts around the opal veins, different timbres and bright embellishments are exposed within a mechanistic orchestra.
Commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and premiered in March 2021.

Opal: Double Concerto for Horns and Orchestra

Texture No. 1 for Orchestra
by Connor D'Netto

University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Warwick Potter

watch the film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vhVNFbRorRE 

recorded live @ QPAC, 16 October 2016

Texture No. 1 for Orchestra – UQSO live @ QPAC

Tim Minchin - You Grew On Me

Lunchtime Concert 2012

...of sorrow, joy, and dancing

This piece was inspired by the rescue in July 2008 of Columbian/French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, and fourteen other hostages, from captivity in the Columbian jungle, where they had been held by FARC members for six years.  Performed by the Southern Cross Philharmonia orchestra, conductor Gerald Gentry.  Free! © Christina Green 2008.  Posted with kind permission of Bianca Rooman, SCPO.

Free!

According to Norse Mythology, Ostara (also know as Eostre) was the Germanic Godess of Spring and fertility who was celebrated during the Vernal (spring) Equinox. Ostara represented rebirth in nature, equality and fertility that came with the coming of spring, heralded by the equinox. During the equinox, the hours of light becomes equal to night, symbolising a perfect equilibrium in dark and light, masculinity and femininity and inner and outer balance.

Ostara’s Equinox aims to musically explore the celebration of Ostara and the Spring equinox through the colourful medium that is the windsymphony.

Performed by the Adelaide Wind Orchestra, conducted by David John Lang
Recording Engineer: Ray Thomas

Ostara's Eqiunox

Kevin & Bean Podcast

Leaving LA - Tim Minchin

Premiere performance in City Recital Hall July 2017 in tandem with the Unashamedly Original Computer Music Festival. Final track on the upcoming album 'Caeli' releasing 2019. 

Recorded in Sydney, Australia | Produced in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

An analysis of light movement.
Released December 31, 2017. 

Composition and Production by Kirsten Milenko 
Voice by Sylvie Louise Woods 
Double Bass by Jacques Emery 
Album Artwork by Brontë Hock

Fragmented text 'O vos angeli' by Hildegard von Bingen.

Ex Aere

Caeli

The work is an ecstatic and fervent exploration of the aria "Brother Liu is Prejudiced Against Women” from the Yu Opera 'Hua Mulan'. Through extension and fragmentation, the aria becomes a musical frame upon which my music seeks out interaction between the soloist as individual and the orchestra as mass. What begins in media res with a monolithic orchestral eruption based on an isolated cadential motive from the aria gradually crystallises into a joyous dance between several living “fragments": the pipa, a string quartet drawn from within the orchestra, the twinkling quintet of the harp and the four percussionists, and ultimately the orchestra itself. The music journeys through the prism of the entire aria from beginning to end, living fragments dispersed within the musical fragments, all mutually constituting one another towards a climactic, scintillating and harmonious union.

Conductor: Zhang Liang
Pipa: Xu Jiaxin
Orchestra: Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra

Written for the 2017 'Hearing China' festival

Opal: Double Concerto for Horns and Orchestra

May Lyon

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