List of Works

Dr. Jeremy Mayall
Composition/Research Output
(links where available)

Multimedia

• Flutter – a multimedia, multi-sensory, site-specific work: involving Otago University performance staff and students, video by Dan Inglis, and lighting by Martyn Roberts, baked goods by The Tart Tin. (premiere in Otago Museum, Nov. 2014)
• L.O.Q.SHUN – voice and soprano – multimedia adaptation by Dan Inglis (Premiere Allen Hall Theatre, Nov. 2015)
• Late Song – commission for Hillary Scholars Performance Programme – based on poem by Lauris Dorothy Edmond (Premiere Academy of Performing Arts, Aug. 2014)
• Whakaika Nei – contemporary dance film with Louise Potiki Bryant and featuring Horomona Horo (Premiere Toitu, August 2014)
• Seaward Moments – for bansuri and backing track with Adam Page (Premiere Aug. 2015)
• Himalayas – for field recording, piano and electronics, and lighting design (Premiere Nov. 2015)
• Inhale [new beginnings] – for piano, electronics, soundscape and scent (featuring taonga puoro by Richard Nunns) (Premiere Aug. 2015)
• Aquifer – for piano, electronics, soundscape and video (Premiere Aug. 2015)
• Changing Aspects – for synth, electronics, soundscape and video (video by Ben Woollen) (Premiere Aug. 2015)
• Inherited Voices – for mixed choir, sampler, electronics and improviser (Premiere Aug. 2015)
• Ruru – for narrator, piano and electronics, and chocolate (text by Scott Granville) (Premiere Aug. 2015)
• Flicker – for video, candles, electronics and improviser (Premiere Aug. 2015)
• Before I Knew – for choir, narrator and live electronics (text by Scott Granville) (Premiere Nov. 2015)
• Journeys – for violin, backing track and video cube (Premiere Nov. 2015)
• Aurora – for musical saw, backing track, and video projections (with John Egenes) (Premiere Nov. 2015)
• Mountains – for hang drum, piano and soundscape (with Ian Chapman) (Premiere Oct. 2015)
• Still – for taonga puoro and backing track (recording)
• Optimist – for electric guitar and backing track (with Nick Granville) (recording)
• For the stars from the undergrowth – for taonga puoro, saxophone, and backing track (with Horomona Horo and Adam Page) (recording)
• Lost and Found – for electric bass and backing track (with Nick Tipping) (recording)
• Twice Together – for saxophone and backing track (with Adam Page) (recording)
• Flow – moving image video and sound piece (finalist in the National Contemporary Art Awards 2013 | 1st Equal in Multimedia Section of 2013 Lilburn Trust Composition Competition)
• Lucid – narrative dance film (and live performance piece)
• The Foggy Field reconstructed – an electroacoustic piece based on the acoustic version of The Foggy Field

 

Chamber

• Frosted Air Suite – for flute and electronics (winner of the 2015 Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Composition)
• “River” and “Smile – songs for soprano and piano. Commissioned for the “All Good Poems Wear Classical Shoes” showcase at the Dunedin Fringe Festival 2016
• Fourteen Moments for Three – for piano trio (a winner of the 2015 NZTrio Composition Competition)
• Our footsteps are all entrances – for violin and fixed media (commissioned by Tessa Petersen)
• Through the Pulsating Debris – for four pianos
• Signature Asymmetry – bass drum, drum kit, vibes and backing track
• Cut Away the Masts – song cycle for soprano and soundscape – Collaboration with Robert Burns Fellow Majella Cullinane
• For Wolf – for toy piano and soundscape
• Otakou Lullaby – for taonga puoro and soundscape
• Sunrise on the Peninsula – for taonga puoro and backing track
• In that infinite moment – for piano and bass (with Nick Tipping)
• Whit-woo – for solo bass (currently unrecorded)
• Tracking Forward – for viola and backing track (performed by Adam Maha – 1st place at 2012 Waikato Lilburn Composition Competition – multimedia section. | Also performed at: ArtsElectro Waikato, OKTA Contemporary music concert, Sir Ed.Hillary Showcase Waikato)
• The Birth – a multi-media performance piece for chamber orchestra, soprano, narrator, dancers, video, pyrotechnics. (Premiered at the Waikato University Blues Awards)
• To entertain a Wolf – for string quartet (performed by the Taiaha Quartet at the 2012 ROSL finals – recorded by RadioNZ Concert)
• Into the Nocturnal Sunshine – for chamber ensemble (performed at the 2012 Waikato Blues Awards Ceremony)
• Norse Suite – four movements for viola and cello (premiere performance by Adam Maha and Yotam Levy at Waikato University + live streaming web broadcast 2013)
• The Long White Cloud – a suite in 7 linked sections, for chamber ensemble (flute, viola, cello, trumpet, keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, taonga puoro, and electronics – premiere performance at Waikato University Showcase 2013)
• Sketches of an Intergalactic Earworm – suite in 7movements for piano trio and boombox. (Premiere performance by NZ Chamber Soloists at OKTA Contemporary Music Concert 2013)
• Push for Miles – for electric bass and backing track (premiere performance by Nick Tipping at Waikato University + viola re-worked version performed by Adam Maha at OKTA Contemporary Music Concert 2013 | Also cello re-worked version performed by Yotam Levy -1st Equal in Multimedia Section of 2013 Lilburn Trust Composition Competition)
• The Foggy Field – for trumpet, turntables and backing track (premiere performance by Mike Booth and the composer at Waikato University 2013)
• A pulse worth fighting for – for flute, trumpet, viola, cello, keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, and electronics (premiere performance at Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival 2013)
• Not a one way street – for piano, viola, cello and synth (premiere performance at Waikato University Showcase 2013)
• Lost – for chamber ensemble (premiere performance at Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival 2013)
• Nuevo Viaje – for guitar orchestra
• Today is the Tomorrow – for turntables, electronics and keyboard (performed by the composer – 1st place at the 2006 Waikato Lilburn Composition Competition – multimedia section)
• From Dusk til Dawn – for solo flute (2nd place – acoustic section of Lilburn Trust Composition Competition 2004)
• A mix of Emotions – song cycle for soprano, violin, cello and turntables
• The Effects of Bundled Sticks on Sound – for bassoon and fx pedals

 

Soundscape

• Musica in Cerebro – exploring the connection between music and the brain in collaboration with the Otago Brain Health Research Centre
• #tinyelephants – sonic art installation
• Another World Asleep – a cosmic lullaby based on the frequencies of space.
• Feathered Resonance – a soundscape to accompany ceramic art piece “Concert of Birds” by Madeleine Child
• He korokoro tui – a contemporary dance soundscape for Waikato Contemporary Dance Projects Trust, featuring Alistair Fraser (taonga puoro)
• Navigating Ice – for piano and electronics
• Nearly Done – a graphic score
• Communal Breath – a meditation soundscape for 2015 Caroline Plummer Community Dance Fellow Uzo Nwankpa
• Infinite Lines – for layered recordings
• Manic Disappearances – for the ‘Kaitiaki’ dance performance
• One Night, New Breath – for taonga puoro, viola, drums, synth, turntables and electronics (premiere performance by Richard Nunns, Adam Maha, Jeremy Hantler and Jeremy Mayall at Waikato Kingitanga celebrations 2012)
• Paaroretanga – for watering cans, effects, turntables and video (premiere performance by Richard Nunns and Jeremy Mayall at OKTA 2007)
• A new communication – for 3 iPhones, light table, Taonga Puoro, effects (premiere performance by Richard Nunns, Horomona Horo, Daniel Peters and Jeremy Mayall at OKTA Contemporary Music Concert 2011)
• Nebula Puoro – for Theremin, effects, Taonga Puoro (premiere performance by Richard Nunns and Jeremy Mayall at OKTA Contemporary Music Concert 2011)
• Tabula Chroma – for light table, turntables, synth, theremin, effects, Taonga Puoro (premiere performance by Richard Nunns, Daniel Peters and Jeremy Mayall at OKTA Contemporary Music Concert 2010)
• Ebb – for taonga puoro and electronics (performed by Richard Nunns and Jeremy Mayall at Artz Electro 2012)
• The soundscape of New Utilitablaszione – for bass and turntables (performed by Jeremy Mayall and Thomas Botting – 2nd place 2004 Waikato Lilburn Composition Competition – multimedia section)

 

Orchestral

• convoluted – for orchestra (included in SOUNZ-NZSO-RNZ Concert Recordings for 2015)
• Symphony No.1 – orchestra and turntables (Selected for Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and NZ Symphony Orchestra rehearsed readings / Performed by NZ Secondary Schools Symphony Orchestra, Wellington Youth Orchestra and Dunedin Youth Orchestra)
• Loss of control in chaotic moisture – orchestra and soundscape (performed by Waikato Youth Orchestra as part of theatre piece ‘Swamp Treasures’)
• Electric Bass Concerto – orchestra and electric bass (performed as part of the NZSO-SOUNZ Readings)
• …expendable dichotomy… – for orchestra (performed as part of the NZSO Todd Young Composers Awards)
• Fanfare for a New Generation – for orchestra, turntables, electronics and rapper (performed as part of APO Remix the Orchestra concert – arranged from original recording by Kenneth Young)

Currently Unperformed Orchestral Works

• Colorless green ideas sleep furiously – for orchestra
• Vous et nul autre – for orchestra
• …seconds unwind… generated noise… racecar – for chamber orchestra

 

Short Films

• L.O.Q.Shun – an experimental film collaboration with Dan Inglis (official selection for 2016 season of the video-art TV show Delete TV – broadcast in Austria, the Netherlands, the US, and Australia | Still Moments, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2016 | 653 Days, Dunedin 2016 | LUMIÈRE 2016 – 6th CinemAvvenire Film Festival Roma, 15-30 Giugno 2016)
• Flare – an experimental dance film collaboration with Dan Inglis (Still Moments, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2016 | Imagined Landscapes: The Music of Jeremy Mayall 2015, Dunedin, New Zealand | 2015 Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ) Nelson Composers Workshop, Nelson, New Zealand | 9th Annual Byron Bay International Film Festival 2015, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia | Imaginary Communication: Live in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2014, Dunedin, New Zealand | Sound and Light: A Mozart Fellow Showcase 2014, Dunedin, New Zealand.)
• Rolling Stock (2nd Annual Experimental Film Festival Portland 2013, Portland, Oregon, USA – May 2013 | 7th Annual Byron Bay International Film Festival 2013, Byron Bay, Australia – March 2013 | 10th Annual Oxford Film Festival 2013, Oxford, Mississippi, USA – Feb 2013 | “Show and Tell: Dan Inglis”, Hamilton Fringe Festival 2012, Hamilton, NZ – Oct 2012)
• Beat (13th VideoDanzaBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 6th Cyprus International Film Festival | 3rd Chicago International Movies and Music Festival | Cinesonika International Film Festival, Canada – best score nomination | New Zealand International Film Festival )
• Focus on the Centre (Okta Contemporary Music Concert | 1st Place multimedia section 2005 Waikato Lilburn Composition Competition)
• Blonde – film score independent production, New York USA 2014 (Big Apple Film Festival 2014 | New York No Limits Film Series 2015 | St Tropez International Film Festival 2015 | Gasparilla International Film Festival 2015 | LA Shorts Fest 2015 | NY Shorts Fest 2015 | Milan International Filmmakers Festival of World Cinema 2015 | Womens International Film and Arts Festival 2015 | Depth of Field International Film Festival 2015 | Female Eye Film Festival 2015 | NYC Chain Film Festival 2015)
• Partiality – a horror short film by Tim Evans
• Mr. Baker – a short film by Joe Hitchcock
• Beyond the Fridge – a short film by PuppyGuts
• Dollhouse – a short film by Dan Inglis
• R. – video adaptation by Merrlisa Leslie
• Lingering smoke and watering eyes – video adaptation by Ben Woollen
• Lost Inside – short horror film score
• The Dairy Diaries – short film by Ashton Ledger (scored with John Egenes) (2016 NZ TROPFEST FINALIST)
• Amazing Universe – premiere show in the Otago Museum planetarium
• Hardwood Floors (Winner Best Score in 48Hr Film Fest 2009)
• The Hidden (Finalist Best Score in 48Hr Film Fest 2009)
• Greensplat (independent release)
• Late Night Specials (independent release)
• Open Home (independent release)

FEATURE FILMS

• Down by the Riverside – FEATURE (commercial release DVD by Vendetta Films, nominated for best foreign film at the NY B-Movie Film Festival 2007)
• They no longer sleep alone – FEATURE (local independent release CD/DVD)
• Pictures of You – FEATURE (local independent release CD/DVD)

 

Collaborative film score work with Chris Lam Sam as The Scorelocks Collective

Feature Film:

• Penny Black NZ 2015 (Arohanui International Film Festival 2015)

Short Films:

• Breakery NZ 2015 (Hudson Valley Comedy Film Festival 2016, New York USA | Skyline Film Festival 2016, Georgia USA | Princeton Film Festival 2016, New Jersey USA | Rialto Channel NZ | High Desert International Film Festival 2016, Nevada USA | Texas Independent Film Festival 2016, Texas USA | Arohanui Film Festival 2015, Te Aroha NZ)
• Stick To Your Gun NZ 2016 (supported by NZ Film Commission – in submission)
• Lapwing NZ 2014 (London Comic Con 2015 | Red Dirt International Film Festival 2015 | Con Film Festival 2015 | Superman Celebration Film Festival 2015 | Arohanui Film Festival 2015 | Phoenix Comicon Film Festival 2015 | Dragon Con Independent Short Film Festival 2015 | Sickest Films NY 2015)
• Serve and Protect (Hyart Film Festival, June 2014 | Comedy Ninja Film Festival LA, May 2014 | Cape Fear Independent Film Festival, May 2014 | High Desert International Film Festival, May 2014 | Capital City Film Festival, April 2014 | Dunedin Fringe Festival Reels on Wheels, March 2014 | Show Me Shorts Film Festival (Peoples Choice Award Winner), Nov 2013 | Kerry Film Festival Ireland, Nov 2013 | Ruby Mountain Film Festival, Sept 2013)
• Paper Road (7th Annual Byron Bay International Film Festival 2013, Byron Bay, Australia – March 2013 | “Show and Tell: Dan Inglis”, Hamilton Fringe Festival 2012, Hamilton, New Zealand – Oct 2012)
• Play Dead (High Desert International Film Festival, May 2014 | Hot Springs International Horror Festival, Sept 2013 | Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival, Sept 2013 | Maryland international film festival, April 2013)
• Winter Storm (White Sands International Film Festival 2013 | Long Island International Film Expo 2013 | San Antonio Film Festival 2013, USA 2013 | 22nd Arizona International Film Festival 2013, USA 2013)
• Pride of Caldwell (Red Dirt International Film Festival (USA), Oct 2013 | Big Cardiff Mini Film Festival (Wales), June 2013 | Cornwall International Film Festival (Cornwall UK) 2012 | Bloody Hero International Film Festival (Phoenix AZ, USA) 2013 | High Desert Shorts International Film Festival (NV USA) 2013 | Big Cardiff Mini Film Festival (Cardiff Wales) 2013 | deadCENTRE film festival 2012 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2013)
• Lily White (Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival (UK), Sept 2013 | High Desert Shorts International Film Festival 2012 | Santa Fe Independent Film Festival 2011 | World Kids Film Festival Road Show 2012 | World Kids Film Festival 2012 | Bodega Bay Short Film Festival 2011 | Palm Springs Film Market 2011)
• Princess Rose and the Rose Flowers and the Other Princesses – film score for 48hr Film Fest, Auckland
• To Darkness – film score for 48hr Film Fest, Wellington
• on a trouvé l’horizon grand – film score (independent short)
• Full Rètard (2013 48hr Film Festival) – Waikato Finalist. Nominated for best score)
• Autocraniotomous (2013 48hr Film Festival) – 3rd Place in National Final / Peter Jackson WildCard / Nominated for best song)
• You Only Die Forever (Finalist in Tropfest NZ 2014)
• Star Wars: Hunter (Finalist in Star Wars International Fan Movie Contest 2012)
• The Life and Times of Dog (independent release)
• Invaders (independent release)
• So you want to make a movie? (independent release)
• Finding Marilyn in Castel del’Aquila (Myrtle Beach International Film Festival 2011 | Palm Beach Womens International Film Festival 2011 | Carborro Film Festival 2011)

Other Projects:

• Relentless Heat – for mixed ensemble (recording)
• The Runaround – for mixed ensemble (recording)
• Suburban Wires – for soundscape and prepared piano (recording)
• Cosmic Outlaw – for mixed ensemble (recording)
• Tumbling Water – for mixed ensemble (recording)

Healthy Habits: 41 Songs for Children – (for the purposes of learning the English Language in overseas kindergartens) in collaboration with Cognition Education Limited.

The Scorelocks Collective albums:

• Penny Black – original score to the feature film
• Lapwing – original score to the short film
• A Collection of Cues – Vol. I
• Tropical Wetlands – a documentary film score
• Charles the Magnificent Pony – story (with music) for children.

 

 

Theatre Works

• Dark Matter – lighting work by afterburner (Martyn Roberts) – BEST MULTIMEDIA in Dunedin Fringe Festival 2016
• Life in the key of… – a short musical (performed at Hamilton Fringe Festival by Partners in Crime Theatre 2011)
• The Imaginary Invalid – extra songs (performed at the Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival by Full House Theatre)
• Instructions for Life – incidental music (performed in Hamilton and Cambridge by Carving in Ice Theatre Company 2013)
• Santa Claus – a musical adaptation of the work by E.E.Cummings
• Alice and the Velvetty Teacup – a short burlesque musical (performed at Hamilton Fringe Festival)
• The Ticket – incidental music written for the Edmund Hillary Scholarship Programme.

 

Pop/Remix

• Silent Image – mixed ensemble
• Egocentric Lullaby – remix for Cheshire Grimm
• Then We Fall – with Chris Lam Sam, Rob Burns and Robbie Craigie
• Night Swimmer – remix for Chelsea Jade
• Back to the Beginning – mixed ensemble
• Future Bounce – a funk track featuring Nick Granville
• Little Bird (remix) – remix for John Egenes
• Crazy Sons of Bitches (remix) – remix for John Egenes
• Subject2change (remix) – remix for S2C
• Marianas Trenchcoat – Ed Zucollo
• UP – independent album release of synth-pop tunes
• Ghost Town Remix – for Sound the Ocean
• Lean Remix – for Banglade$h
• A typical day in suburbia – debut album under OneFatMan pseudonym
• Remaking Pearl Harbour – ep with Thomas Botting as …howard
• They No Longer Sleep Alone – album with Thomas Botting as …howard

 

 

Independent Albums

• Hybrid Philosophies – music from PhD studies
  • Tracking Forward
  • The Long White Cloud
  • Push For Miles
  • Norse Suite
  • The Foggy Field
  • Into the Nocturnal Sunshine
  • One Night, New Breath
  • Sketches of an Intergalactic Earworm

• The Song of Kauri – musical adaptation of children’s book by Melinda Szymanik

• Imaginary Communication – for piano and electronics
  • as time passes
  • one night
  • shared intuition
  • a lonely wharf
  • sunrise on the peninsula
  • those remarkable peaks
  • dark matter

• Blonde (O.S.T) – soundtrack to the short film
  • Blonde Theme
  • Transitions
  • Preparation
  • Just One Night
  • The Morning After
  • Disposal
  • Reminiscing
  • Blonde Theme – reprise

• They Will Be The Colour – with Julia Booth
  • Flutter
  • Cut Away The Masts 1 – Farewell, December 1860
  • Cut Away The Masts 2 – The Donald McKay
  • Cut Away The Masts 3 – January 11th 1862
  • L.O.Q.Shun

• THUS by Days At Sea – with Rob Burns and Robbie Craigie
  • dissolved happiness
  • that crumbled moon
  • I am
  • holding the universe together
  • one moment
  • almost five
  • be something every minute
  • the same
  • a wild rumpus
  • lingering smoke and watering eyes
  • second moment
  • following the gunslinger
  • light the lights
  • I swear we were infinite
  • rust and stardust

• Charles the Magnificent Pony (a musical adaptation of a children’s book by Scott Granville)

• It will remember itself by Narrowing Weeks – with Chris Lam Sam, Nick Granville, Rob Burns and Robbie Craigie
  • stores of morning
  • myriads of drifting minds
  • sweetempered gunpowder
  • symbolic thunderclap
  • lived, laughed, loved and lost
  • the unfacts
  • the only girl they loved
  • over the bowls of memory
  • deepsleep sea

• We are all stardust (music composed for “Amazing Universe” – an Otago Museum planetarium show)
  • We are all stardust
  • The natural world
  • Night skies
  • Earth
  • Beginning to explore
  • On the surface of the moon
  • The sun
  • Mechanical armada
  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Comets
  • Mars
  • Deimos and Phobos
  • The asteroid belt
  • The gas giants
  • An unusual planet
  • The Kupier belt
  • Oort cloud
  • Dying stars
  • Supernovas
  • Neutron stars
  • Black hole
  • Galaxies and cosmic microwaves
  • Traveling home
  • Our Amazing Universe
  • We are all stardust (remix)

 

Albums still to be released

• Conversations  (a collection of works for solo instrument and backing track)

 

LIVE CONCERTS

Sound and Light – Allen Hall Theatre, August 7th-8th 2014
Imaginary Communication – Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 25th October 2014
Flutter – Otago Museum, 19th November 2014
Imagined Landscapes – Marama Hall, 4th August 2015
Another World – Marama Hall, 11th August 2015
Lost in a Moment – Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 4th October 2015
[still moments] – Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 14th November 2015
653 Days – Allen Hall Theatre, 15th November 2015
JMayall and the Fluid Wall Ensemble – Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival, Feb 2013
PhD Concert Showcase – Waikato University Academy of Performing Arts, April 2013

 

Production Work:
Does the Bus Stop here? – album for Mr. Roberelli (including 2011 APRA Children’s Song of the Year ‘Beans about Beans’)
Double Yolkers – album for Mr. Roberelli
Laughter on the breeze – album for Mr. Roberelli
Like a Million Eyeballs – album for Mr. Roberelli

Music for Children:
2015 — Healthy Habits: 41 Songs for Children — with Chris Lam Sam (as The Scorelocks Collective) in association with Cognitive Education Limited.

Other Commercial Work:
DV Bryant Trust 90th Celebration – Nimbus Media
TV/Educational Soundtracks (Catch and Cook, Ruben the Road Safety Bear)
TVC/Radio Ad (Hamilton Central, Select Homes, First Credit Union, Oceanus Abalone, DVS, Solo)