I am very excited to have been awarded the Mozart Fellowship at Otago University for a second year! This means I will get to spent 2015 engaging in full time creative work. It is an absolute privilege to have received this position. You can read the announcement here: http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago078803.html Having another year to focus on composition [...]
Category: films
Recent things
Things have been pretty hectic since the various concerts in the first week of August, so I figured now might be a good time to collate a few things. Films: - Recently completed the sound mix for the LAPWING short film. A fun little superhero project that I co-scored with the Scorelocks Collective. - Worked [...]
Concerts
Coming up this week (August 7th and 8th) is 'SOUND AND LIGHT: A Mozart Fellow Showcase'. We just finished rehearsal for the show, and it is going to be a great little show. All the works presented involve the skills and talents of a number of great collaborators. It has been an honour to work [...]
Sound and Light
On August 7th and 8th I am presenting a showcase concert of new multimedia work called "SOUND AND LIGHT" This performance will feature a number of premieres of new works I have composed throughout my time as the Mozart Fellow. Including: - Signature Asymmetry - for percussion and backing track. Performed by Robbie Craigie - Flare - an [...]
Premiere of New Dance Piece
Recently I have been working on a collaborative dance piece with the Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance Louise Potiki Bryant, and Rua McCallum This short video work will be premiered with live dance performance elements at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum on this coming Saturday, 21st June. Following that, a video only version of the [...]
Seaward Moments
About a month ago I drove down to Invercargill to record in the Seaward Bush Reserve with woodwind maestro Adam Page. The recordings are part of a new album I am working on, to be released later in the year, but as part of the recording we did an extra track that is now available [...]
Recording in Nature
Still busily working away on various projects... a couple of experimental films, an album of instrumental music, an orchestral piece, a couple of multimedia/theatre pieces and anything else life throws my way! It is an exciting time - loving the creative work. On the past weekend I spent a lot of time out in the [...]
Princesses and pianos
Another quick update, still furiously working away on the phd. I believe the end is in sight... I hope so! I am also working on a piece for four pianos, a piece for guitar, some solo instrument pieces, and a couple of new larger scale theatrical pieces (more details to come soon). In the meantime, [...]
Suburban Wires and Cosmic Outlaws
Another new music update! This time more music composed with Chris Lam Sam for The Scorelocks Collective. After composing the music for two films in the 48hour film fest (one in Auckland and Wellington) we also had the time to put together a couple of extra pieces, for no other reason other than enjoying [...]
Making work happen.
I am continuing to get settled in here at Otago Uni. Meeting lots of people, exploring Dunedin, and using the time to focus on creating new work! There are a lot of potential collaborations to explore this year! Including film scores, a new album of songs, dance/film projects, a theatre project, and other bits and [...]
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