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Conversations

The recording of Conversations is an outcome of a research project at Monash University’s School of Music. Six composers worked with performers to shape this electro-acoustic piece, joining team-based composition, contemporary performance practice, and music technology.

  • CatalogueMD 3289
  • Released30 Aug 2004
  • Playing time43 minutes 42 seconds

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1 of 18 tracks have a preview · 3 works · 43:42

  1. 1 Section A Steve Adam 21:54
  2. 2 Section B Steve Adam 11:26
  3. 3 Section C Steve Adam 10:22

The project set out to integrate team-based music composition, contemporary performance practice, and music technology as both concept and craft. Six composers (five PhD candidates and one staff member), three performers (two Masters candidates and one staff member), and two research assistants shared the conception, composition, performance, and recording of the work.

Two kinds of integration were pursued at once: the conceptual and aesthetic meeting of six distinct research interests in composition, and the placing of that collaborative writing inside a team exploration of contemporary performance practice. Clarinets and live electronics carry the three continuous sections.

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This is a rich and engaging example of electro-acoustic music at its most successful

Artists

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re-sound

ensemble

re-sound has established itself as one of Australia's most progressive contemporary music ensembles. Its thought-provoking, challenging and dynamic performances explore the sounds of our time across a wide range of genres, styles, and performance contexts.

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Thomas Reiner

composer

Artistic Director of the ensemble re-sound, Thomas Reiner has received numerous awards for his compositions, including second prize in the International Witold Lutosławski Composers' Competition for Two Movements for Orchestra, the Dorian Le Gallienne Award, and the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award.

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Steve Adam

composer

Steve Adam writes and performs electroacoustic music where live instruments meet computer processing, synthesis and the pulse of popular electronics. His HybriD and collaborative works with re-sound fuse chamber colour with realtime digital sound.

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Philip Czaplowski

composer

Philip Czaplowski composes contemporary classical music that folds found material into chamber writing. The Blackbird's Song of Peace for solo flute is built on a seven-note scale taken from a blackbird call heard in Tasmania.

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Robin Fox

composer

Robin Fox is an Australian composer and electronic musician whose work ranges across electro-acoustic composition, live electronics and sound design for contemporary dance.

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Russell Goodwin

composer

Russell Goodwin is a composer whose work sits in electro-acoustic and contemporary chamber music, heard on Move through collaborative research recordings linked to Monash University.

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Peter Myers

composer

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Technical credits

  • Thanks to Arts Faculty of Monash University
    Monash University School of Music Auditorium

Details

List price
$25.00 AUD
Total playing time
43 minutes 42 seconds
Release date
Category
Australian
Musical work copyright
© 2004 Monash University
Sound recording copyright
℗ 2004 Move Records
Catalogue
MD 3289
EAN
9314574328929

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