Month: October 2009

Recording of Red Tree . Red Earth . Red Water

Audio, Events

Recording of the premiere of Red Tree . Red Earth . Red Water by the Yarra Trio at Melba Hall in 2008.

Program note:

Red Tree . Red Earth . Red Water is one of a group of compositions concerned with the idea of stillness and the attempt to arrest time in what is essentially a temporal medium. This is my first foray into the piano trio genre and also serves as a preliminary exploration of the timbral palette which can be drawn from this particular group of instruments. The title of this piece is not intended to communicate a specific narrative or image, but rather exists as a point of reference from which the listener may experience the music.

Recording of The Colour of Time

Audio, Events

This is a recording I made using my little dictaphone at the VCAM Soundout concert, the recording comes up surprisingly well, and the music’s not half bad either.

Preliminary showing of movement/sound piece ‘2’ 22nd October 2009

Current Projects, Dance
Small Things Collective
Preliminary Showing
Hybrid Space, VCAM
Preliminary showing of movement/sound piece ‘2’

2 bodies in space, 2 sources of sound, 2 personalities in dialogue.

Small Things Collective

Preliminary Showing

Thursday October 22, 4:30pm

Hybrid Space, VCAM

Preliminary showing of the piece ‘2’, which starts from the assumption that a dancer can’t move without making sound, just as a musician can’t make sound without moving, and aims to explore the performative space between sound and dance, and the physical space between performer and viewer. This the latest collaboration between composer Camille Robinson and choreographer Caley O’Neill, and is the most ‘collaborative’ to date, placing the two modes of performance on an even level, and even exchanging the role of sound-maker and mover between the trained and the untrained.

Performers: Caley O’Neill and Camille Robinson

Directed by: Gabby Rose, Caley O’Neill and Camille Robinson

VCA Composers’ Concert

Events
VCA Composers Collective
Chrysalis Gallery
Performance of new works by Camille Robinson, Evan Lawson, Sean Mears, Dean Gourley and Luke Paulding.
VCA Composers Collective
November 6
Chrysalis Gallery
Performance of new works by Camille Robinson, Evan Lawson, Sean Mears, Dean Gourley and Luke Paulding.

World premiere of ‘5 Epigrams’ 4th October 2009

Events
Quiver
Institute of Italian Culture International Composition Competition
Iwaki Auditorium
World premiere of ‘5 Epigrams’

Quiver

Institute of Italian Culture International Composition Competition Finalists’ Concert

October 4, 2:30pm

Iwaki Auditorium

World premiere of ‘5 Epigrams’

This concert marks the culmination of the Institute of Italian Culture International Composition Competition and will include premieres of works by Chiaki Kato, Mike Solomon, and ‘5 Epigrams’ by me, as well as performances of works by adjudicators Mark Pollard and Carlo Forlivesi. The works will be performed by the contemporary music ensembles Quiver and Golden Fur.

World premiere of ‘Burning Water’ 21st September 2009

Events
Southbank Brass Ensemble
VCAM lunchtime concert series
BMW Edge Auditorium
World premiere of ‘Burning Water’

Southbank Brass Ensemble

VCAM lunchtime concert series

September 21, 1:00pm – 2:00pm

BMW Edge Auditorium

World premiere of ‘Burning Water’

This concert includes the premiere of my piece ‘Burning Water’ for which I was awarded the 2008 Spivakovsky prize. The piece was inspired by the poetry of Charles Bukowski and by contemporary scientific research on the destabilising effect of certain radio waves on water. It will be performed by the Southbank Brass Ensemble, made up of students of the brass department of the VCAM school of Music, and will be conducted by the acting head of the brass department Russell Davis.

Harvest

Film, Past Projects

Harvest

This was a short film I scored for Charelle Kelly; set in a dieing world a young girl lives with a jeweller who practices an unpleasant brand of alchemy. Performers on this score included colleagues from VCA Katrina Tsyrlin, Luke Paulding, Sean Mears, Suzie Notini and Evan Lawson.

This was a short film I scored for Charelle Kelly; set in a dieing world a young girl lives with a jeweller who practices an unpleasant brand of alchemy. Performers on this score included colleagues from VCA Katrina Tsyrlin, Luke Paulding, Sean Mears, Suzie Notini and Evan Lawson.

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Kronos

Film, Past Projects
Kronos
This film was the most recent of a series of short film scores I worked on for David Rusanow. The film depicts two brothers of differing temperaments faced with the fragility of life in the form of a sick father, and a vulnerable bird.

This film was the most recent of a series of short film scores I worked on for David Rusanow. The film depicts two brothers of differing temperaments faced with the fragility of life in the form of a sick father, and a vulnerable bird.