Orchestra

Ephemeral Bounds
(2021)

spatialised orchestra
3333 / 4(2 parts, doubled)33(2 parts, Tromb1 doubled)1 / Timp+2perc / Harp / Piano / Strings 14.12.10.8.6
13 minutes

Composed as part of the Antarctic Heritage Trust Inspiring Explorers Expedition 2020,

Performed by the New Zealand Youth Orchestra and members of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gemma New, 2021.

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

Creek’s Chorus
(2019)

soundscape for orchestra & tape
5 minutes

This work was awarded the Audrey Reid Composition Prize (2019) and performed by the Dunedin Youth Orchestra, conducted by Peter Adams.

Petrichor
(2019)

orchestra
8 minutes

This work was a finalist in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Todd Corporation Young Composer Award 2019. For copyright reasons, the recording cannot be made publicly available via open access. However, if you are interested in this work, please reach out and I can provide a recording for private listening.