2014-2015 Mozart Fellow Work

Here is a list of works created throughout my time as the University of Otago Mozart Fellow. (links provided 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.
• L.O.Q.SHUN – voice and soprano – multimedia adaptation by Dan Inglis
• Late Song – commission for Hillary Scholars Performance Programme – based on poem by Lauris Dorothy Edmond
• Whakaika Nei – contemporary dance film with Louise Potiki Bryant and featuring Horomona Horo
• Seaward Moments – for bansuri and backing track with Adam Page
• Himalayas – for field recording, piano and electronics, and lighting design
• Inhale [new beginnings] – for piano, electronics, soundscape and scent (featuring taonga puoro by Richard Nunns)
• Aquifer – for piano, electronics, soundscape and video
• Changing Aspects – for synth, electronics, soundscape and video (video by Ben Woollen)
• Inherited Voices – for mixed choir, sampler, electronics and improviser
• Ruru – for narrator, piano and electronics, and chocolate (text by Scott Granville)
• Flicker – for video, candles, electronics and improviser
• Before I Knew – for choir, narrator and live electronics (text by Scott Granville)
• Journeys – for violin, backing track and video cube
• Aurora – for musical saw, backing track, and video projections (with John Egenes)
• Mountains – for hang drum, piano and soundscape (with Ian Chapman)
• Still – for taonga puoro and backing track
• Optimist – for electric guitar and backing track (with Nick Granville)
• For the stars from the undergrowth – for taonga puoro, saxophone, and backing track (with Horomona Horo and Adam Page)
• Lost and Found – for electric bass and backing track (with Nick Tipping)
• Twice Together – for saxophone and backing track (with Adam Page)

Chamber

• Frosted Air Suite – for flute and electronics (winner of the 2015 Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Composition)
• Fourteen Moments for Three – for piano trio (a winner of the 2015 NZTrio Composition Competition)
• 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)
• Our footsteps are all entrances – a suite for violin and fixed media. Commissioned by Tessa Petersen. Based on the poetry collection “Homing In” by Cilla McQueen

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
• Four Tastes – four short soundscapes for research in collaboration with the Otago Uni Sensory Science Research Centre
• Infinite Lines – for layered recordings
• Manic Disappearances – for the ‘Kaitiaki’ dance performance

Orchestral

• convoluted – for orchestra (included in SOUNZ-NZSO-RNZ Concert Recordings for 2015)

Films

• Flare – an experimental dance film collaboration with Dan Inglis
• Blonde – film score independent production, New York
• 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)
• Amazing Universe – premiere show in the Otago Museum planetarium

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
• UP – an album of unreleased tracks and instrumentals

 

Albums

• Hybrid Philosophies – music from PhD studies
  

• 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

 

Collaborative work with The Scorelocks Collective

• Breakery – score for film by Chasing Time Productions
• 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)
• 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)

ALBUMS:

• Penny Black – original score to the feature film
  
• Lapwing – original score to the short film
  
• A Collection of Cues – Vol. I – various film scores
  
• Tropical Wetlands – a documentary film score