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

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)

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

Delphic (2016)

This is a collection of some of my concert music. See links below for more more more more more more more more more more more more more.

Please feel free to get in touch: peterabwilson@icloud.com

they, who fly with wings of glass

Peter Wilson composer