of coral and foam
(2025)
string quartet and voices
16 minutes
Composed for The Rhythm Method Quartet, as part of Columbia Composers 2025 season. Performed at Fridman Gallery, NYC, 1 March 2025.
The concept for this work began with reading Katherine Mansfield’s poetry, particularly her sorrowful sea songs: Sea Child (1910), Sea (1911), and Sea Song (1913). Between 1910 and 1913, Mansfield took several trips to the seaside for her mind and body to heal after traumatic events. The sea takes on various characters within the poems, often shifting in nature within a single line, and acts as a sender of disorienting waves of rejection and embrace. It is within this tension that I found a starting point to explore musical materials that might flow from this unstable footing.
Audio recording and mixing by David Adamcyk and Dani Dobkin Video by Stuart Breczinski
moorings
(2025)
duo for shō and kamancheh
7 minutes
Created with Duo Nessi, Chatori Shimizu and Niloufar Shiri.
moorings explores connection and relationality, anchorage and tethering, entanglement and dependency; a drawing together and apart.
In this Eden, kōwhai blooms
(2022)
string quartet
10 minutes
Performance by the Ximenez Quartet at Evolution Quartet 2022, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Karin Cuéllar Rendón (violin), Simon Alexandre (violin), Namgon Lee (viola), Jessica Korotkin (cello).
On Satin Waters
(2020)
violin, viola, tape
also rearranged for violin, cello, tape
12 minutes
Composed as part of the Antarctic Heritage Trust Inspiring Explorers Expedition 2020, performed by Nathaniel Otley and Mark Menzies. Recorded by Orange Studios.
Suspire
(2020)
koto, sho
7 minutes
Performed by Nanae Yoshimura and Mayumi Miyata. Supported by the New Zealand Japan Exchange Programme, with film editing funded by NZ On Air.
On Whistling Sands
(2020)
bass flute, violin, guitar
5 minutes
Performed by Marlene Cooper, Mark Menzies and Chris Everest (begin video below at 36:55).
Sehnsucht
(2019)
violin, guitar, clarinet, cello
8 minutes
Performed by the Argonaut Ensemble at the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (BIFEM), 2019.
(ir)rationality
(2019)
piano trio
5 minutes
Performed by NZTrio as a recipient of the ‘Impetus’ Composers Award 2019.
Ihlara McIndoe. 