Ihlara McIndoe.

Soundsketch: Montreal, Winter 2023
(2023)

clarinet & tape
7 minutes

Le Projet de Collaboration Interuniversitaire 2023. Performed by Solène Selva-Rivero.

i am not made of mud or meat or music
(2021)

orchestra & tape
7 minutes

Performed by Orchestra Wellington, conducted Marc Taddei, recorded and mixed by sound engineers Andrew Dalziel and Graham Kennedy.

This work draws from my reading of Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg manifesto and explores the rejection of rigid boundaries, particularly in relation to distinctions between ‘human’ and ‘animal’ and ‘human’ and ‘machine’. I carry over my learnings from Haraway into consideration of music as an art form, and how we treat concepts of nature, technology, and composer/human intervention in the creative process. Opening with a reimagined Respighi theme ‘The Dove’ from The Birds, the work begins with consideration of the pure and natural, and the highly crafted representation of the living world. With the introduction of the tape, we turn to birds in the metallic, and begin to question the boundaries between natural and technology.

“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play […] At the centre of my ironic faith, my blasphemy, is the image of the cyborg”.
– Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto

On Satin Waters
(2020)

violin, viola, 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.

Mutual Assured Destruction
(2017)

piano & tape
5 minutes