I am currently working on the editing and mixing of a new album recorded/composed/improvised in real time in the Albany Street Studios by myself, Chris Lam Sam, Nick Granville, Rob Burns, and Robbie Craigie. The session was engineered by Mike Holland. While working through those tracks I found this tune recorded at sound check while [...]
Tag: minimalism
Silent Image
As part of a project Mike Holland was running with his studio production third year class at Otago University, he asked me if I would like to get something recorded in the studio. So I wrote this piece, 'Silent Image' - a kind of minimalism meets funk groove thing... lots of tuned percussion, synths and [...]
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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 [...]
Recent projects
Times have been busy leading up to Christmas, but here is a quick update with some of the more recent things I have been doing. DV Bryant Trust 90th Celebration Film DV Bryant 90th Celebration Film: December 2014 from nimbus media on Vimeo. Lost Inside A track from an unused film score for a [...]
Concerts, Albums and Scores
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 [...]
Live in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
I will be performing a live concert of ambient music for piano and electronics at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery on Saturday 25th October. Along with the live performance there will be a number of sonic art installations I have created for you to become immersed in. Entry by donation to the Himalayan Trust [...]
The Long White Cloud (video)
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)
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 [...]
Push for Miles (video)
Now, continuing on with concert videos... For my PhD composition portfolio, I have had the honour and privilege of writing for a range of specific (and extremely talented) musicians. This means I have been able to work with each person throughout the creation of the piece, writing something that works with their playing style - [...]
Not a one way street (video)
Here is part two of my finished PhD Concert footage... The video for today is the piece that opened the concert. Not a one way street by J.Mayall For viola, cello, synth and backing track. This piece 'Not a one way street' is about cyclic but slightly alter journeys that occur through our hectic everyday [...]
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