Recently I have been working on a series of piano and electronics pieces - 'Imaginary Communication'. So far I have composed two and co-composed a third with Chris Lam Sam (The Scorelocks Collective). These pieces will be amongst some of the ongoing work for my time as the Mozart Fellow. Here are the three pieces. [...]
Category: Music
2 months have flown by
It is hard to believe that I have already been the Mozart Fellow at Otago Uni for 2 months! It feels like I am still getting started - meeting all the various talents that inhabit this beautiful place. Here is a bit of a catch up on the things that I have been working on [...]
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 [...]
The first couple of weeks.
So, I am now into the second week as the Mozart Fellow. My time so far has been pretty hectic with tripping back up to Hamilton to be the celebrant at some weddings! But in amongst all that I have managed to wander around the university a little bit, met a bunch of the awesome [...]
2013 Reflections
It is the beginning of 2014, a new calendar year and I am sitting next to my son while he plays 'endless alphabet' on the iPad with concentrated skill and fury. I find myself thinking about everything that happened over the last year - it has been a pretty hectic 365 days! Some of the [...]
Sketches of an Intergalactic Earworm
'Sketches of an Intergalactic Earworm' is a suite in seven movements for piano trio and boombox. It was written for The New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Katherine Austin, Lara Hall and James Tennant) and was premiered on the 19th September 2013. During the early stages of writing this piece I got together with my frequent collaborator [...]
Jeremy Mayall 