Cold Dead Hands

Taken from 'Never Twice The Same' EP

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/never-twice-the-same-ep/id1211761945

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Change of Heart (feat. Chiara Hunter)

Workshopped and performed by Sydney Chamber Opera, Jack Symonds, Jane Sheldon, James Wannan and Jane Bishop.

The text used is a selection of the endless strings of predictive text generated on the composer's smartphone.The predictive
text function analyses a user's most commonly used words and phrases to predict the next word in a sentence.These long
strings of babble have a strangely personal reminiscence and contain an essential virtual identity; one can glean a literary portrait
of a user.
This piece takes influence from two discrete environments; conventions, syntax and phenomena surrounding online dating interactions and the western classical music canon, each as farcical as the other. It's as if the composer has uprooted the two
scenarios and placed them in a blender for a few seconds so the two are spliced together in a glitchy conglomerate.

User Review #91137125 (Self Portrait 2017)

Images 1-48, a poor drawing of Marguerite Duras (2018)
for percussion quartet

"It would have been impossible for me not to come back," she said finally.
"And I came back too for the same reason as you."

Performed by Jan Williams, Niki Johnson, Derek Frank, Colin McCall

Images 1-48

Images 1-48, a poor drawing of Marguerite Duras

Linguistic Anthropology is the study of how language influences culture and social life. Studies in this discipline help comment on identity, social ideologies, and socialization in general. Understanding the total implications of language in these scenarios is daunting and, at times, arguably subjective. Music takes a similar space in our cultural makeup. We frequently claim that music is communicative or even a language without acknowledging that this communication more realistically comes from a combination of history and metaphor.

Linguistic Anthropology sifts through this combination through a circuital collage of musical and textual associations with a single source; Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life and Others. This collection of stories includes Story of Your Life and Tower of Babylon, both of which discuss the acquisition of language. With this starting off point, Linguistic Anthropology makes textual connections from Kafka to The Simpsons as well as musical connections from Phil Spector to Luciano Berio. We are not supposed to discretely hear this through a line of associations, rather this should serve as a meditation on accrued culture over time.

Hillary LaBonte, soprano
Brad Balliett, bassoon
Louise King, cello
Will Yager, double bass
Niki Johnson, percussion

New Music on the Point Premiere 2018

Linguistic Anthropology

Solid State (2018)
for oboe, clarinet, violin, and percussion

"The noise of the city is very loud, in recollection it's like the sound-track of a film turned up too high, deafening." 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4hCjxNvHfE

Performed by Ecce Ensemble
Jean-Philippe Wurtz - conductor
Benjamin Fischer - oboe
Carlos Cordeiro - clarinet
Alexandra Greffin Klein - violin
Laszlo Hudacsek - percussion

Etchings 2018

Solid State [ECCE Premiere]

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Love is Hard to Find

some demos i've been working on in self isolation.

written/produced/mix/master(lol) by romæo

track 4 produced by jack purdon.

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Niki May