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.
Robin Fox electronics
Jane Hammond conductor
Peter Handsworth b♭ clarinet, bass clarinet
Karen Heath b♭ clarinet
Kim Lajoie electronics
Paul Todd b♭ clarinet, e♭ clarinet
re-sound ensemble
Philip Czaplowski composer
Robin Fox composer
Russell Goodwin composer
Peter Myers composer
Thomas Reiner composer
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.
Reviews
This is a rich and engaging example of electro-acoustic music at its most successful
Artist
re-sound
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.
Audio preview
Tracks
- Section A Steve Adam Philip Czaplowski Robin Fox Russell Goodwin Peter Myers Thomas Reiner 21:54
- Section B Steve Adam Philip Czaplowski Robin Fox Russell Goodwin Peter Myers Thomas Reiner 11:26
- Section C Steve Adam Philip Czaplowski Robin Fox Russell Goodwin Peter Myers Thomas Reiner 10:22
Performers
- Steve Adam · electronics
- Robin Fox · electronics
- Jane Hammond
- Peter Handsworth · b♭ clarinet, bass clarinet
- Karen Heath · b♭ clarinet
- Kim Lajoie · electronics
- Paul Todd · b♭ clarinet, e♭ clarinet
- re-sound
Composers
Thomas Reiner
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.
Steve Adam
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.
Philip Czaplowski
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.
Robin Fox
Robin Fox is an Australian composer and electronic musician whose work ranges across electro-acoustic composition, live electronics and sound design for contemporary dance.
Russell Goodwin
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.
Where to listen
Conversations is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Conversations 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 3289
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 43 minutes 42 seconds
- Thanks to
- Arts Faculty of Monash University
Monash University School of Music Auditorium - Release date
- 30 Aug 2004
- Musical work
copyright - © 2004 Monash University
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 2004 Move Records
- Category
- Australian
- Genres
- Contemporary Classical, Experimental
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574328929
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