John Cousins – Self-Conscious Narcissist

This is an essay that was originally composed for Electronic Music History (MUSC 246), written shortly after my previous post about John Cousins, which fed into the essay. The task was to critically assess an aspect of ‘electroacoustic’ music of demonstrable significance to the development of the art-form in Australasia. It was probably evident from [...]

CMPO 311 – 10 October 2009

The first concert of the 10th of October was the final electroacoustic composition concert for at least some of the third-year Sonics Arts students completing their degrees. Six long surround sound acousmatic works along with one audiovisual work made up the concert in the Adam Concert Room, some making more of an impression than others. [...]

John Cousins – Some reflections

Q. How do you think you would react if your music suddenly became wildly popular?
A. … I guess I’d think it was shit …

Pia Palme – 21 July 2009

Daniel De La Cuesta: Fachwerk
Christoph Herndler: Vom Festen, das Weiche
Pia Palme: Improvisations

Pia Palme is a musician and composer from Vienna, one of a group dedicated to creating and playing music for the “sub-bass” recorder. This instrument, developed by Kueng in 2007, has a beautiful rich tone, particularly in its lower registers and is capable of a [...]

NZSO – Made in New Zealand – 29 May 2009

Douglas Lilburn: Landfall in Unknown Seas
Lissa Meridan: a quiet fury
Douglas Lilburn: Three Poems of the Sea
Jack Body: My Name is Mok Bhon
Dugal McKinnon: Blue Kisses Green
Ross Harris: Haiku
Douglas Lilburn: The Return

If this concert proved nothing else it was that the time has come to stop giving Douglas Lilburn [...]