Semi-determined piece for two trios. Performance by 3 Shades Black at Homophonic 2016.

change(less)

Ephemeral piece for very low and very high gamelan instruments and voice. Recorded by Jeremy Dullard and Kris Travers Eira in 2016.

afterwards

Performed on my Mothra sculpture with kitchen equipment and drumsticks. Recorded at home in 2011 as part of a soundtrack project.

Moth Music

Song no. 4 of a song cycle 'the shadows the light'. Lyrics are a poem by Nola Firth incorporating Zen Buddhist sutras. Recorded in 2014 by a community choir.

the shadows the light

the gate of shining light

The Sierpinski Triangle is a simple fractal which can be generated by a number of different mathematical procedures. This suite, part of the series "maths will save your soul", translates a selection of these procedures into musical terms. These generative procedures are represented visually as scores or partial scores. Each fractal in the suite starts from a minute core which unfolds, potentially indefinitely.
Performed by Victorian College of the Arts Percussion Ensemble dir. Peter Neville: Justin Zheng, Ardian Strybosch, Gemma Podbury, Oscar Tudge, Adam September, Matt Usutoff, Aditya Ryan Bhat, Bridget Bourne. Conducted by Jessop Maticevski Shumack.

Four Studies on the Sierpinski Triangle

Tattooing still carries the function of marking important moments in the life journey. As a form of artistic scarification, it retains its ancient ritualistic symbology as a rite of passage. The intentional endurance of pain at a chosen time can be read as writing one's body with the memory of a significant decision, learning or experience.
Body memory is about journey, transcendence, and the maintenance of multiple planes of being while traversing an everyday life in the urban environment.
(Thanks to Deuce at Chapel Tattoo for permission to record in their studio. Tattoo in image also by Deuce.)

Body Memory

this is not a fe/male body.
the body is gendered but the body is not gender.
this is a human body.

(Thanks to Emma Neveux for the French tracks.)

Noise Recording Project

this is not a fe/male body

Four 'stacks' of music, each using a single motif per player, transforming vertically and horizontally in four different configurations. Stacked sculpture by Will Velislav (created for the performance).

Synaesthesia

Stacks (from Synaesthesia)

After the Fall describes the loss of faith, at either a personal or a cultural level, and the vast emptiness left behind when all frameworks have broken down.
Half life. The dual meaning of inherent decay and a life half lived. Several aspects of the music gradually disintegrate, one at a time.
Performed by Ensemble Françaix

May 8 2019, Hanson Dyer Hall

After the Fall

Composer and performer based in Melbourne

k travers eira

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