Composition Department Flowers of Hakuba (2020) – Mountain Flower Damien McClusky - Clancy Anderson, guitar I - Jeremy Stafford, guitar II Mountain Flower, is the first in a suite of 5 pieces entitled, Flowers of Hakuba. These works were inspired by the landscape of the area around the village of, Hakuba, which is located in the Japanese alps and were composed for two secondary school aged guitar students, from Townsville, North Queensland. Of Lovers Lost & Found Again (2020 Emma Olsen - Joshua Cass, oboe - Amelia Cody-Byfield, bassoon Of Lovers Lost & Found Again is a romantic duet (duets so lend themselves to Romance!) embodying the quintessential love story, and also my own love story. In love at the beginning, the lovers are forced to separate through unfortunate circumstances, but they think of each other constantly while they are apart. Eventually, after considerable time, life brings them back together and they fall in love all over again. Simple, but true. Lo Scontro (2020) Emma Percival - Vittoria von Caemmerer, piccolo - Elisabeth Bell, trumpet Lo Scontro (The Clash) is a piece that started out as a sort of experimentation beyond standard combinations of instrumentation, as a sort of compositional challenge. The rarity of its instrumentation provides opportunity for rhythmic and tonal experimentation, as well as expressively. The concept of the piece evolved over time to include the nuances between synergy and discord, and I wanted to convey the idea of how you can’t have one without the other, and there is no order without disorder. It’s a sort of representation of how I view the chemical chaos theory; everything will naturally return to disorder, and balance is much harder to achieve. Velocity (2020) Dale Schlaphof - Courtney Lovell, saxophone Velocity is a short, encore work that I composed for Nico Maclean, a colleague and close friend of mine studying classical alto saxophone at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The work is extremely virtuosic with very disjunct and fast melodic lines, and constantly changing metre. The work in essence is designed to capture the chaos of body in sporadic motion. From an external perspective, it is erratic, hard to pin down, and irregular in its beat emphasis, yet is deeply formulaic and rhythmically clear with constant driving motion. The piece, whilst free in its interpretation, must maintain constant flow and motion to best represent velocity, the changing of displacement in relation to time. Quartet for the Prince (2020) Sebastian Lingane & Oliver Misso - Sophie Schafer, flute - Julia Hill, violin - Oliver Misso, u-bass - Sebastian Lingane, ukulele, bottle & foot tamborine Quartet for the Prince is a three-movement piece exploring the aural soundscape of the Middle East from narrative to dance music. For a portable quartet, the work takes the listener on a nomadic journey through the dunes from campfires on the bedrock to the wandering markets and finally the quasi-march dance. This piece divulges in not only the rhythmic practices of Arabic music but also the tuning as the musicians must change their tunings to accommodate for the notes outside of the western tradition. Quartet for the Prince tells a story about community through various ensemble styles and collaboration at its core.
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