Tag: electronica

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As a bit of creative fun I decided to create a piece using some taonga puoro recordings I had made with Alistair Fraser. I listened through the recordings, and then started to create a piano piece that would allow Alistairs musical gestures to flow naturally and create a sense of balance between the taonga puoro [...]

Concerts, Albums and Scores

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The end of last week got kind of manic with a range of projects reaching finishing points. - sending scores, parts, backing tracks and other performance details for the performers of a new multimedia chamber work "Flutter". - submitting full score and parts for a new orchestral piece "convoluted" for the NZSO SOUNZ Recordings in [...]

Country-Folk-Remix

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Recently I have been working on a couple of remix projects. One for jazz-fusion band 'Subject 2 Change' featuring staff from the Otago Music Department. The other is a couple of tracks from the album 'The Stone Soup Sessions' by John Egenes.  Drawing from the stems available on the remix site John has, I selected [...]

Seaward Moments

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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 [...]

The Long White Cloud (video)

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This is the final video from the concert recordings. At the concert this piece was performed under the title "They say a word is dead". But after some discussions, and a long timing thinking about possibilities... the piece was re-worked, re-arranged and had some new parts written to make the piece better suited to support [...]

The Foggy Field (video)

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The next installment from the concert videos is here. Writing a piece like this is always fun, because being partly improvised - you know that there will be some stuff that will happen as expected, and then there will be somethings that happen in the moment that really stop you in your tracks. Working with [...]