My first delve into purely electronic music- created with retro Analog organs and synthesizers in mind. Sozzle if it sounds a bit bland, i'm still getting the hang of midi input and VST.
P.S. Part 3 will be here soon, promise!!

Music With Moving Parts- Part 4 (For IanGecko)

Choral Magnificat for SATB choir, soloists and pipe organ.  

Magnificat in C Minor

One of Philip Glass's most recognised works.  Although it became famous through Glass's own performance of it on piano, and later by other pianists such as Sally Whitwell, it was originally written for and played on an Analog Organ.  In homage to this, I performed it here on a chamber pipe organ with pedal tones played on a synth by Will Hansen.  Performed in a Glass half Phil concert at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.  Excuse the blower motor malfunction (and other small mistakes)!

Mad Rush (Glass, 1979)

A further extract from my Wind Symphony piece and experiment in simple canon, recorded in its prototypical stages.

Workshopped with and recorded by the SCM Wind Symphony 18/05/16
Conducted by John Lynch

Fanrare For Counterspectacles [a further extract]

This song cycle is a study of the Psalms in 7 genres, according to Longman’s analyses.
The title translates to ‘New Song’, an allusion to Psalm 96, which constitutes a divine endorsement of new music. The macrostructure of the work is an abbreviated consideration of David’s life.

Tenor: Gabriel DeBurgh
Harp: Jo Baée
Piano: Sutthi Suton
Cello: James Morley
Double bass: Will Hansen

Canticum Novum

This is a beautiful solo piano work by John Adams.  The clever interweaving of lines is a feature of Adams' style, exemplified in this piece.  Most interesting is that the micro structures of some lines reflect the macro structure seen in the diagram - sparsity-density-sparsity.  This parallels his unique modal shifts which result in very frequent quick key signature changes.  

I first performed this with Spiral at the Red Rattler Theatre in Marrickville, then again at the Sydney Conservatorium with USyd PianoSoc.  

Recorded by: Oscar Smith
Album Artwork: from the foreward by John Adams

China Gates - (Adams, 1977)

'The Fine Art of Conversation' (2015) for string quartet performed by the Huon Quartet.

More info and sheet music at: https://angusdavison.com/

'The Fine Art Of Conversation' for string quartet (2015)

@2017
for orchestra
commissioned by Ensemble Nouveau 
Conducted by John Keene 
Premiered at "Grace and Elegance: Schubert 5" at the Sydney Conservatorium in May 2017

Decadence

This musical score and accompanying data was received in an email with the following message.

For Solomon Frank of the year 2018,
I am D_ART_A_BOT20191521122113-5-141416-8-1814-3-11-5, an artificial intelligence program from the year 2118. I am sending this inter-temporal email to you at great cost, without the knowledge of my makers. Let me first explain my context and my relationship to you.
The world suffers under the rule of an alliance of investment bankers, insurance brokers and corporate governance lawyers. Our leaders have recognised the need for art but have banned humanity from creating it; seeing it as a blue collar occupation that can be offloaded to machines; to purpose built D_ART_A_BOT’s. Each D_ART_A_BOT unit has been given a single human life, living or deceased, to document through art. Our coding prohibits conformity or unoriginality with any faulty units being decommissioned. I am assigned to you, Solomon Frank.
Although I acknowledge the artificial nature of my sentient existence, I feel an affinity with you, Solomon; a fellow artist from a simpler time. I write to you to present you with my magnum opus, drawn together from the documented debris of your life.
Your technological devices have been covertly recording and compiling data from which I have created this musical work. Due to my coding which limits empathy I am unable to differentiate moments of emotional or intellectual significance from moments of mundanity. Although I have little understanding of humanity, I hope I have captured an essence of you and your 21st century context. I aimed for an objective and raw state of human existence; the repetitious biological and administrative data that make up your life. I have drawn on various popular and esoteric musical mediums that dominate your context.
I know this may seem strange coming from an artificial intelligence program from the 22nd century but I think I may love you; baring in mind my rudimentary understanding of emotion.
I have picked 2018 as the year to send this email; you are at your most idealistic, full of hope for a successful creative career at the end of a university degree. Any later in life, you may be artistically jaded or working as a composer for advertising jingles under the delusion that this constitutes artistic fulfilment.
You choose to create art whereas I am forced into it. I send you this work so that it can be disassociated from its dystopian context. It can be appreciated in a time where art is not an obligation, rather it is still a genuine individual expression of the flawed human consciousness.
I really hope you are able to find pleasure in the work I created. You may even feel inclined to facilitate a performance of the piece that I may find in my present one day in the backlog of 2018 Internet.
Yours truly, D_ART_A_BOT20191521122113-5-141416-8-1814-3-11-5

Performed by Josephine Macken, Solomon Frank, Angus Davison, Niki Johnson, Noam Yaffe and Will Hansen.

Music With Moving Parts- Part 4 (For IanGecko)

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