Resound for ensemble, voices and electronics
Composed by Sonja Mutić
Performed by National Sawdust ensemble and Constellation Chor
Filmed at National Sawdust as a part of the Hildegard competition commission concert
released on March 11, 2021.

National Sawdust Ensemble:
Stephen Gosling piano
Miranda Cuckson violin
Jeffrey Zeigler cello
Sae Hashimoto percussion
Oran Etkin bass clarinet

Constellation Chor:
Maya Carney soprano
Sarah Beth Pfeifer alto
Heath Saunders tenor
Raphael Sacks baritone

Sound design and recording:
Charles Hagaman
Garth McAleavey

Resound for ensemble, voices and electronics

Connor and Jack dive into an iconic poem by an iconic poet - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, also known as Kath Walker, a trailblazing indigenous Australian writer and activist. They discuss the history of racism towards indigenous Australian people, explore the ways the poem plays with perspective, and get a little lost on an environmental tangent about invasive species.

Lear more about Oodgeroo Noonuccal, here: https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/noonuccal-oodgeroo

Read more of her poems, here: https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/noonuccal-oodgeroo/poems

Learn more about the indigenous peoples of Australia, here: https://aiatsis.gov.au/

We Are Going
By: Oodgeroo Noonuccal

They came in to the little town
A semi-naked band subdued and silent
All that remained of their tribe.
They came here to the place of their old bora ground
Where now the many white men hurry about like ants.
Notice of the estate agent reads: 'Rubbish May Be Tipped Here'.
Now it half covers the traces of the old bora ring.
'We are as strangers here now, but the white tribe are the strangers.
We belong here, we are of the old ways.
We are the corroboree and the bora ground,
We are the old ceremonies, the laws of the elders.
We are the wonder tales of Dream Time, the tribal legends told.
We are the past, the hunts and the laughing games, the wandering camp fires.
We are the lightening bolt over Gaphembah Hill
Quick and terrible,
And the Thunderer after him, that loud fellow.
We are the quiet daybreak paling the dark lagoon.
We are the shadow-ghosts creeping back as the camp fires burn low.
We are nature and the past, all the old ways
Gone now and scattered.
The scrubs are gone, the hunting and the laughter.
The eagle is gone, the emu and the kangaroo are gone from this place.
The bora ring is gone.
The corroboree is gone.
And we are going.'

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Episode #144 We Are Going - Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)

Andante Sospeso (2003)
Dur. 4:30 For flute and piano. 
Premiere: Duo Nataraya (Laura Capsir, flute, and Imma Santacreu, piano). 29.01.2004. Colegio de España, Paris, France.
Editorial Tritó (Barcelona)


Andante Sospeso. Laura Capsir (fl), Imma Santacreu (pno). CD Ars Harmonica (2006).

In 'The Superpower Transformation' Emeritus Professor Ross Garnaut charts the course for Australia to become a leader in a world of zero-carbon emissions. He outlines new evidence that stronger and earlier action on climate change would be good for jobs and incomes and particularly in regional and rural Australia. Garnaut also shows how Australia can meet its obligations set at the Paris and Glasgow climate conferences – and the costs for not doing so.

With contributions from Mike Sandford, Ligang Song, Frank Jotzo, Isabelle Grant, Susannah Powell and Maite Meinshausen, 'The Superpower Transformation' covers electricity, hydrogen, steel, exports, carbon-capture in the landscape and reveals how much Australia has to gain by making the most of the opportunities that are available to us right now. 

In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Emeritus Professor Ross Garnaut about why it's in Australia's interest to take a leadership role in the transformation to a zero-carbon future, how green hydrogen is already a reality and why using our wealth of renewable energy resources to produce green hydrogen will transform Australia's economy and ensure our national prosperity into the future.

Ross Garnaut on securing Australia's zero-carbon future in 'The Superpower Transformation'

Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes (1977): Pöörisvool [Eddy Current] for flute and piano

Talvi Hunt (piano)
Katrin Szamatulski (flute)

Karl Erik Laas (sound engineer)

Recorded in August 2022 at Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa.

Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes // Estonian Music Information Centre
https://www.emic.ee/tatjana-kozlova-johannes

Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes (*1977): Pöörisvool for flute and piano (2012)

The second release on our label features a selection of six pieces for flute and piano from six different composers. All pieces are performed by Yoriko Ikeya and Klaus Schöpp.
Songs of a desert Bird will be available in all digital stores and as a limited CD release on the 19th of May.

04 Walter Zimmermann Lied Im Wuestenvogelton (1987) Teaser

" Illusionist " for flute solo

Eun-Ju Kim, piano

(1999) for piano solo [SMC06], 28 min. 
written for Eun-Ju Kim 

:[ten]dril (1999)(studio recording)

Debussy Tombeau 2018 - Madeleine Staunton, flute and Therese Fahy, piano

Feather - Headed Frail Summoning

Here are some excerpts of recordings of some of my compositions. I've concentrated on music which is not (yet?) available on CD or shared by others on YouTube, and which I haven't placed as downloadable material on my website (richardbarrettmusic.com).

Politeia (from CONSTRUCTION, 2011) for 13 instruments

The composer writes:
"I have used different kinds of timbre to structure Tumbleweed. I wanted to exploit the flute’s potential for making sudden timbral changes. Furthermore, I’ve explored the boundary between breath-noise and melody-tone as I believed that it could support further investigation. This piece also tells a brief story about a journey. The seed of the tumbleweed flies away on the wind, travelling a long way, but finding no one at the end. "                                                2019

Xu Yifan studied piano and musicology with Wu Chenbin, Ruan Yueyang, Ni lin, and Chen Xinfeng. Then he studied composition with Guo Zurong and Zhu Shirui. After finishing his Bachelor and Master degrees at Fujian Normal University, he is now studying as a PhD candidate majoring in composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

'Tumbleweed' by Xu Yifan for solo flute, performed by Laura Chislett

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