Vocal Works - click links for .mp3 audio or .pdf score samples

A work using greetings and identification signals of radio stations from around the world, as a metaphor for schizophrenia.

Recording: KIWI SLD-46

The first of a series of six electroacoustic works based on Indonesian field recordings, in the case of this work, the evocative vocal and instrumental sounds of street hawkers. Music dari Jalan was awarded first prize at the 1976 Bourges Competition for electroacoustic music and in 1992 received the Disc d'or as one of the ten most highly acclaimed prize winners over 25 years.

Recording: Kiwi Pacific TC SLD 54; Harmonia Mundi LDC 278043(CD)

A collage of Indonesian birds, frogs and monkeys.

Recording: KIWI TC HLS-113; CD MANU 1380

Settings of poems by NZ poet Bill Manhire, originally designed as an accompaniment to dance.

Recording: Portal Music CD 1004

A work using the sounds of Indonesian children's toys, most of which are
constructed from 'found objects' and discarded materials.

Recording: KIWI TC HLS-113; CD MANU 1380

A work using the sounds of Indonesian street hawkers playing musical instruments to attract children.

Recording: KIWI TC HLS-113; CD MANU 1380

A work using six different versions of the same popular Javanese
song as interpreted by street musicians recorded in Yogyakarta.

Recording: KIWI TC HLS-113; CD MANU 1380

A work extrapolated from a recording of a jew's harp player from
Lombok, Indonesia, the sound of which becomes a metaphor for death.

Recording: Ode CD MANU 1380

A collage of field recordings from places of worship in and around Wellington,
in a celebration of New Zealand's ethnic and cultural diversity.
Commissioned by West German Radio.

Recording: Portal Music CD 1004

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