Robert Lloyd
Robert Lloyd is a composer and performer on keyboards and percussion, known for kinetic, brightly coloured dance scores. His music draws its energy from interlocking rhythms shaped by American minimalism and Balinese gamelan.
Percussion and percussive keyboard sounds are the backbone of his work, which has been danced on four continents.
Three of those scores appear on Nullarbor (MD 3171). The title work is entirely percussion-based and inspired by the vastness of the Australian desert. Bold New Buildings sets a shimmer of interlocking bell-like figures on electric keyboards, while Feral (1985) pairs keyboards and percussion in the combination that became his trademark: unpretentious on the surface, yet dense with layered rhythmic pattern.
He also wrote Earthed for the cross-cultural anthology Bridges, Vol. 1 (MD 3281).
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Brilliantly played
Shimmering, driving score
Robert Lloyd, has written an exciting percussion score that ranges from the very loud and textured to the finely modulated
With this release a wider audience will now discover the rhythmic poetry of Robert Lloyd’s music.
Robert Lloyd is featured on the following titles
Bridges, Vol. 1
Chamber works by Australian, Korean and Romanian composers, recorded by Monash University staff and guests, mapping cultural bridges across Eastern Europe, North Asia and Australasia after decades of relative isolation.
Nullarbor
Three kinetic dance scores by Robert Lloyd for keyboards and percussion, weaving American minimalism and Balinese gamelan into brightly coloured, interlocking rhythms of striking clarity and drive.
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