On the Wings of a Butterfly
Cross-cultural music by Australian composers. This 2005 collection from Lê Tuấn Hùng gathers works by Ros Bandt, Brigid Burke, Warren Burt, Deborah Kayser and others, and was nominated for an ARIA Award.
Deborah Kayser soprano
Lê Tuấn Hùng đàn tranh, balinese suling, power pole bells, oceanian panpipes
Ros Bandt medieval psaltery, balinese suling
Peter Hagen harpsichord
Brigid Burke clarinet
Wendy Couch vibraphone, indian drum
Warren Burt computer
John Britton spoken voice
Ria Soemardjo vocals
Anne Norman composer
Lê Tuấn Hùng composer
Ros Bandt composer
Ria Soemardjo composer
Dindy Vaughan composer
Brigid Burke composer
Warren Burt composer
Instruments, colours of tone, concepts and voices from many cultures are explored and combined to generate new musical entities that transcend the artificial boundaries between East and West.
Listeners hear the exquisite vocals of Ria Soemardjo and Deborah Kayser with the meditative shakuhachi, the delicate voice of the Vietnamese zither đàn tranh interlocking with the harmonics of Australian power pole bells, and waves of vibrant emotion in pieces for shakuhachi with harpsichord, and clarinet with Indian drums.
Artists
Deborah Kayser
Deborah Kayser is an Australian soprano whose work spans Byzantine and medieval chant, French and German Baroque song, and scored and improvised contemporary music. She tours in Australia, Europe and Asia, and appears regularly as a soloist on disc and on ABC FM.
Anne Norman
Anne Norman is a performer, improviser, composer and teacher of shakuhachi based in Melbourne. She works as a freelance artist across music-theatre productions, solo and collaborative recitals, broadcasts and recording.
Ros Bandt
Ros Bandt is an Australian composer, performer and sound artist whose work joins ancient instruments, environmental sound and live electronics in spatial music, installation and sound sculpture.
Ria Soemardjo
Ria Soemardjo’s distinctive vocal style is shaped by her love of traditional Asian music as well as an inventive and eclectic approach to improvisation. Curious about her father’s love for the haunting songs of his traditional Javanese heritage, Ria has studied this vocal style characterised by non-western tunings and highly complex vocal ornamentation.
Anne Norman
Anne Norman is a performer, improviser, composer and teacher of shakuhachi based in Melbourne. She works as a freelance artist across music-theatre productions, solo and collaborative recitals, broadcasts and recording.
Deborah Kayser
Deborah Kayser is an Australian soprano whose work spans Byzantine and medieval chant, French and German Baroque song, and scored and improvised contemporary music. She tours in Australia, Europe and Asia, and appears regularly as a soloist on disc and on ABC FM.
Dindy Vaughan
Dindy Vaughan is a composer, environmentalist, organiser, writer and educator. Her music is frequently performed live and has been broadcast on 3MBS FM and the ABC. Happiest in the thick of artistic, intellectual but above all practical, activity, she thrives in social groups where imagination and creativity combine with plenty of grass roots growth in a hurry.
Lê Tuấn Hùng
Lê Tuấn Hùng is a composer, performer and author, specialising in Vietnamese music and the experimental music of contemporary Australia. He has written widely on Vietnamese performing arts and is regarded as an international authority in Vietnamese musicology.
Brigid Burke
Brigid Burke is a composer, clarinet soloist, visual artist, and educator. She has performed extensively in solo and chamber recitals, both nationally and internationally. She has also presented her musical ideas and concepts as a performer, composer and creator through workshops, lectures and master classes.
Ros Bandt
Ros Bandt is an Australian composer, performer and sound artist whose work joins ancient instruments, environmental sound and live electronics in spatial music, installation and sound sculpture.
Warren Burt
Warren Burt has worked in academia, education and radio, and as a composer, filmmaker, video artist, writer and community-arts organiser. He has produced a large body of work for instruments, electronics, voice, video, theatre, prose and poetry, performed and shown in the USA, Australia, Europe and Japan.
Brigid Burke
Brigid Burke is a composer, clarinet soloist, visual artist, and educator. She has performed extensively in solo and chamber recitals, both nationally and internationally. She has also presented her musical ideas and concepts as a performer, composer and creator through workshops, lectures and master classes.
Warren Burt
Warren Burt has worked in academia, education and radio, and as a composer, filmmaker, video artist, writer and community-arts organiser. He has produced a large body of work for instruments, electronics, voice, video, theatre, prose and poetry, performed and shown in the USA, Australia, Europe and Japan.
Ria Soemardjo
Ria Soemardjo’s distinctive vocal style is shaped by her love of traditional Asian music as well as an inventive and eclectic approach to improvisation. Curious about her father’s love for the haunting songs of his traditional Javanese heritage, Ria has studied this vocal style characterised by non-western tunings and highly complex vocal ornamentation.
Audio previews
Tracks
- Unde Deborah Kayser Anne Norman (Traditional) 6:44
- On the Wings of a Butterfly Lê Tuấn Hùng Ros Bandt 11:17
- Adrift Anne Norman Ria Soemardjo 6:05
- A Song for Sky Bells Lê Tuấn Hùng 9:59
- Pound Bend – Yarra River Dindy Vaughan 3:10
- Wimmera River – Lake Hindmarsh Dindy Vaughan 5:54
- Grit Brigid Burke 8:23
- Dedication 3:11
- The Family Supper 2:26
- The Way Ahead for Youth 2:57
- The First Eighty Years 2:34
Poems of Rewi Alley Warren Burt
Performers
- Anne Norman · shakuhachi · tracks 1, 3, 5 and 6
- Deborah Kayser · track 1
- Lê Tuấn Hùng · đàn tranh, balinese suling, power pole bells, oceanian panpipes · tracks 2 and 4
- Ros Bandt · medieval psaltery, balinese suling · track 2
- Peter Hagen · tracks 5 and 6
- Brigid Burke · track 7
- Wendy Couch · vibraphone, indian drum · track 7
- Warren Burt · computer · tracks 8–11
- John Britton · spoken voice · tracks 8–11
- Ria Soemardjo · track 3
Where to listen
On the Wings of a Butterfly is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
On the Wings of a Butterfly is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- MD 3297
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 62 minutes 40 seconds
- Contributor
- Le Van Tai
- Producer
- Lê Tuấn Hùng
- Recording Engineer
- Brigid Burke (track 7)
Lê Tuấn Hùng (track 4)
Martin Wright
Warren Burt (tracks 8–11) - Venue
- Baker Street Studios (tracks 1, 3, 5 and 6)
Move Records Studio (track 2) - Thanks to
- Creative Australia
- Release date
- 2005
- Musical work
copyright - © 2005 Move Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 2005 Move Records
- Categories
- Classical, Cross-cultural
- Genres
- Contemporary Classical, World & Cross-cultural
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574329728
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