Michael Hewes
Michael Hewes is an audio engineer based in Melbourne. He works regularly for the Astra Music Society, and in 1966 collaborated with Michael Kieran Harvey, recording two works on the Move label, including Elektra and Addict which involved computer processing. Those pieces appear on the CD albums Elektra and Threnody.
Credits
Threnody
Michael Kieran Harvey’s landmark 1995 Astra recital of late twentieth-century Australian piano music returns in a 2024 Move re-master. Premiere recordings by Harvey, Vine, Campbell, McCaughey, Byrne, Humble and Anderson form one continuous programme.
Butterfly Modernism
Composer Eve Duncan’s third release is a two-CD set of chamber works that marks a clear shift in her musical language.
Editing Engineer
Elektra
Australian piano music by Helen Gifford, Tony Gould, Andrew Ford, Julian Yu and Michael Kieran Harvey. The title work, Elektra, extends acoustic piano sound through computer processing, in a collaboration with sound engineer Michael Hewes, who shaped the instrument’s resonances in real time.
Curiosities: Chamber Music by Eve Duncan
Chamber music by Australian composer Eve Duncan, performed by artists from Australia and abroad, among them the Australian National Academy of Music String Ensemble and pianist Michael Kieran Harvey.
Capella Corelli Plays Handel and Telemann
Capella Corelli has long been one of Australia’s foremost baroque chamber ensembles. Here they present sonatas by Handel and Telemann for baroque violin, recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord.