This is a live recording; original music (Piano Sounds 2020) and bookended with Glass Metamorphosis II and How Now (1968) Up for a limited time for people who missed the concert due to covid-related border restrictions.

May2021

This piece is written as the soundtrack for a short film about artist Bronwyn McKean and her 'Earth Stories' workshops. The film can be viewed via; https://earthstories.com.au

Growing from my experience of the Boondall Wetlands over the years and riffing off the call of the nocturnal Boobook, the piece shifts through a cycle of repeated musical cells.

Thanks to Boyds Piano Shop, Wooloowin, for a few minutes with a Bosendorfer piano.

Wetlands

It is an experimental piece showing how performers' choices create rhythms and intensity. This piece has 9 sections of material where a player can choose which elements to play and when. This recording is a demo recorded at home with all that involves...you can hear some gheckos and a single notification ping.

Particles for 5 Pianos

The following set of tracks are from my most recent live performance (without interval) of Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus (20 Contemplations of the Baby Jesus)(1944) recorded on September 10th 2014 at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Brisbane. Overall 2 hours 20 mins. The files are an mp3 reduction of a beautiful recording by engineer David Spearritt, the piano is a Shigeru Kawai 9' grand.
The full listing of movements;
1 Regard du Père ("Contemplation of the Father")
2 Regard de l'étoile ("Contemplation of the star")
3 L'échange ("The exchange")
4 Regard de la Vierge ("Contemplation of the Virgin")
5 Regard du Fils sur le Fils ("Contemplation of the Son upon the Son")
6 Par Lui tout a été fait ("Through Him everything was made")
7 Regard de la Croix ("Contemplation of the Cross")
8 Regard des hauteurs ("Contemplation of the heights")
9 Regard du temps ("Contemplation of time")
10 Regard de l'Esprit de joie ("Contemplation of the joyful Spirit")
11 Première communion de la Vierge ("The Virgin's first communion")
12 La parole toute-puissante ("The all-powerful word")
13 Noël ("Christmas")
14 Regard des Anges ("Contemplation of the Angels")
15 Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jésus ("The kiss of the Infant Jesus")
16 Regard des prophètes, des bergers et des Mages ("Contemplation of the prophets, the shepherds and the Magi")
17 Regard du silence ("Contemplation of silence")
18 Regard de l'Onction terrible ("Contemplation of the awesome Anointing")
19 Je dors, mais mon cœur veille ("I sleep, but my heart keeps watch")
20 Regard de l'Eglise d'amour ("Contemplation of the Church of love"

Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus  (live 2014) 01

A piece by my brother Alistair Noble, from my CD Sharagan (1998), the title refers to a monastery in Myanmar. This is a full file. I love to finish recitals with this piece of music.

Alistair Noble: Thamanya (1998)

On Wednesday 30th September we were on a walk in the National Park at Mt Tamborine, Queensland, Australia and encountered a Lyrebird in song. For those interested, this is where Olivier Messiaen realised his dream of hearing the Lyrebird sing. There is both wind and running water noise, and at the beginning another bird is singing, but the Lyrebird becomes more, well, obvious as he goes along.

Lyrebird at Mt Tamborine

This album of original music explores different aspects of 'fives'. Five pieces, five voices, groups of five, beats in fives, and extended structures in fives. Five equal fingers in each hand are integral to playing the piano. Slow trills lead into spacious harmonies, moving currents lead into still moments, and the sonics of the piano remain in the centre of the landscape.

There are five pieces; un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq...

Kawai Grand Piano
Recorded Dec 28th 2018

Quintette

This is a recording of an improvisation I played at the Piano Mill site on 21/4/2019. It was played outdoors on an untuned upright in the mist and rain with audience members walking by on a trail of musical and sound experiences. It's point of departure is Erik Griswold's recent work 'Sounding the Valley'
Erik's music can be found on soundcloud;

https://soundcloud.com/erik-griswold

For more information on the Piano Mill;

https://www.facebook.com/thepianomill/posts/2619598211402295?__tn__=K-R

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