Project Title: Creative Explosion (Wirr 028)

Project date: October 2009

Image credits: Wirripang

Client: Australian Composers/Wirripang

Media: CD, printed score, live concert

Contribution: composition, co-production, recording, editing, mixing, mastering, concert production

More info: https://www.australiancomposers.com.au/products/creative-explosion

The creative aesthetic behind this project is to have a strong intercultural focus featuring Asia-Pacific traditions of Korean samul nori drumming techniques, Filipino kulintang percussion, Japanese shakuhachi ‘moment’ aesthetic and East Asian string techniques (Korea, Japan, China) interacting with contemporary music. The trajectory from modern violin through to Chinese erhu and Korean kayageum techniques interacting within contemporary composition and cutting edge digital technology forms a thread behind this collection. The sound of Asia-Pacific gongs (Korea, China, Philippines) intersecting with modern percussion as an enlargement of the contemporary music tradition in performance and composition is another angle. Finally the use of the techniques of reed membrane and coloured breath from Western clarinet to Japanese shakuhachi exploring the ‘single-note’ aesthetic of East Asia within contemporary composition and improvisation also forms a focus.

Project Title: GHOST QUARTERS: first dream of The Opium Confessions

Project date: 9-16 May 2009, CarriageWorks, Sydney

Image credits: Sam James

Client: De Quincey Co

Media: live performance

Contribution: sound design, sound programming, multi-speaker diffusion

More info: De Quincey Co

Welcome to The Faculty of Dreaming where the brain is haunted ghosts write secret inscriptions on the mind language runs riot thought spreads into wide open spaces and the houseless vagrant walks all night. Someone is out there with murderous intent, but the horrors are all inside. From the writings of the great poet and essayist Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), GHOST QUARTERS unleashes visions that show us the world as a larger reality, a place of vastness and uncertainty, filled with the changing weathers of the psyche.