At the end of last year I had the opportunity to create a soundscape for a new contemporary dance work "Whenua" by Karen Barbour. The work was premiered at a conference at Waikato University. In the recording and creation of this piece I had the privilege of working with Alistair Fraser playing his selection of [...]
Tag: soundscape
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 [...]
Mozart Fellow 2015
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 [...]
Sonic Art Installation
I recently designed a sonic art installation piece called '#tinyelephants'. This work is a soundscape accompanied by a large printing of this photo: The originally purpose for this piece was to be observed in the context of a looping installation. The sonic art element can be heard here: #tinyelephants from Jeremy Mayall on Vimeo.
Imaginary Communication No.5
Am in the midst of working on a new cross-disciplinary multimedia piece for the Sir Edmund Hillary Programme to be premiered at an event in August. Slowly managing to convert ideas from the poem into musical arrangements to get things ready for when the rehearsals start. While I continue working on that, here is a [...]
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 [...]
Imaginary Communications
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. [...]
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