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Broken Words

Chamber works for concert flute, alto flute and piccolo; baritone saxophone, bass clarinet and alto saxophone; and piano by Frank Millward. Broken Words explores how technology is reshaping musical communication and meaning.

Frank Millwardcomposer Harry Rylancepiano Susie Hodder-Williamsconcert flute, alto flute, piccolo Chris Caldwellbaritone saxophone, bass clarinet, alto saxophone
  • CatalogueMCD 677
  • Released10 Sep 2026

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3 works

  1. Broken WordsFrank Millward 3 movements
    1. 1 Broken Words
    2. 2 and (conjunctionitis)
    3. 3 Pronouncing the Noun Baroque
  2. _RuptionsFrank Millward 3 movements
    1. 4 E
    2. 5 Ab
    3. 6 Inter
  3. 7 #6 Bag of Tells Frank Millward

We live in times where media is demanding that we become multi-media translators. Words, emojis, texting, colour charts, maps and so on. We are being asked to translate combinations of signs to interpret meaning. We move from texting to email to abbreviated phone messaging to image transfer. Words are broken up, shortened or combined into hybrid formations. Simultaneously we are being confronted with the challenge of an artificial world. Trust is being eroded. Words are being broken in a multitude of ways.

These three musical works explore these ideas and how they can impact music. New and hybrid phrase construction and rhythmic patterns emerge from familiar origins. Cross-genre music combinations become more prevalent. The ever presence of random moving images assigned to instrumental music is usually transformative. Dialects and accents now translate into hybrid musical styles. All these can impact on the structuring of musical expression. While the structuring nature may change, the experience of music listening is durational. Reflective memory and repeated listening, however, gives opportunity to reposition what is thought to have been heard, understood or translated as meaning.

Artists

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Frank Millward

composer

Frank is an Australian / Italian composer, performer and educator. His music occupies a space between traditional and futuristic, emphasising the importance of the continuity of experience in the interplay between past and present.

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Harry Rylance

piano

Harry Rylance is an acclaimed and highly versatile British pianist.

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Susie Hodder-Williams

concert flute, alto flute, piccolo

Since studying flute at the Royal Northern College of Music and reading English at the University of York, Susie works as a soloist and freelance musician with many of the UK’s leading orchestras and ballet companies. In those settings she demonstrates a natural versality in performing masterfully when playing the Concert, Alto, Bass Flutes and Piccolo.

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Chris Caldwell

baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, alto saxophone

Chris is well known in the UK as a freelance multi-instrumentalist and member of the celebrated Delta Saxophone Quartet, now in its fifth decade.

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Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDF

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Technical credit

  • Producer Paul Honey

Details

List price
$25.00 AUD
Release date
Genre
Contemporary Classical
Musical work copyright
© 2026 Frank Millward
Sound recording copyright
℗ 2026 Move Records
Catalogue
MCD 677
EAN
8721554198600

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