Listen & tracks
2 of 15 tracks have a preview · 5 works · 49:26
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1 Red Earth, White Clay Victoria Pham 8:05
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Eleven Oblique StrategiesBrett Dean 11 movements14:31
- 2 i. Listen to the Quiet Voice 2:10
- 3 ii. A Line Has Two Sides :44
- 4 iii. Don’t Stress One Thing More Than Any Other :38
- 5 iv. Look at a Small Object, Look at It’s Centre :41
- 6 v. What Are the Sections Sections Of? 1:28
- 7 vi. Don’t Be Frightened to Show Your Talents 2:03
- 8 vii. Disciplined Self-indulgence :49
- 9 viii. Bridges – Build – Burn 1:09
- 10 ix. Ghost Echoes 2:14
- 11 x. Disconnect from Desire 1:50
- 12 xi. In a Very Large Room Very Quietly :45
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13 Permit Me Deborah Cheetham Fraillon 3:18
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14 Invisibility Liza Lim 11:01
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15 Inner World Carl Vine 12:31
Further reading and viewing accompany the release:
In the artist’s words
Being came out of a love of contemporary Australian classical music and the desire to share the music of my home country with people the world over. It is made of five works from living Australian composers for solo cello. Each piece builds its own world of sound, and despite all coming from Australian composers and composed within the past 30 years, each is distinct and speaks to the diverse voices in Australian composition.
Through sharing this album, my hope is that more people can come to know and love Australian music. My thanks go to the composers Victoria Pham, Brett Dean, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, Liza Lim, and Carl Vine, to Move records, for helping me to record this project, to Genevieve Fry for her support in creating the art for this album, to Creative Australia for supporting Being, and for all the wonderful people who supported me during this process.
I began with the Birrarung, immersing a large scroll of paper in my local river and allowing the water, mud and clay to leave their marks.
I wanted the work to have a strong grounding in this continent, as the composition choices do.
Ink markings flowed from the sounds and textures on Being, producing wild variations reflecting the diversity of the album; a palpable exploratory journey.
Artists
Daniel Pini
cello
Daniel is an Australian cellist and conductor based between Paris and Sydney. He has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and with orchestras around the world including Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra.
Victoria Pham
composer
Spanning art, technology and science, Victoria Pham is an Australian artist, evolutionary biologist, writer and composer. She is based between Paris and Sydney. Originally trained as an archaeologist, she holds a PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, St John's College. As a composer, she trained under the tutelage of Richard Gill OAM, Liza Lim, Carl Vine AO, Gerard Brophy and Thierry Escaich.
Carl Vine
composer
Carl Vine AO is one of Australia's best-known and most often performed composers, with an orchestral catalogue of eight symphonies and thirteen concertos. His piano music is played widely around the world, and recordings of his work appear on more than seventy albums across the major streaming services.
Brett Dean
composer
Brett Dean is an Australian composer and violist who spent more than fifteen years with the Berlin Philharmonic before returning home to concentrate on composition. His orchestral, chamber and stage works are performed widely around the world.
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon
composer
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, Yorta Yorta woman, soprano, composer and educator has been a leader and pioneer in the Australian arts landscape for more than 25 years.
Liza Lim
composer
Liza Lim is a composer, educator and researcher whose music focusses on collaborative and transcultural practices. Beauty, rage and noise, ecological connection, and female spiritual lineages are at the heart of recent works.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Daniel Pini · cello
Technical credits
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Recording Engineer
Vaughan McAlley
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Mastering Engineer
Martin Wright
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Venue
Move Records Studio
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Thanks to
Creative Australia
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Credit
Genevieve Fry
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 49 minutes 26 seconds
- Release date
- 30 Sep 2024
- Category
- Classical
- Musical work copyright
- © 2024 Daniel Pini
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2024 Daniel Pini
- Catalogue
- MCD 662
- EAN
- 9314574066227
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