Tienda- música: New Zealand Sonic Art Vol.II

Publicado el día 8 Marzo, 2005
Clasificado en International, Tienda, musica|

New Zealand Sonic Art Vol.II

TRACKS
• 1. Lissa Meridan: twitter torniquet - 7:53
• 2. John Rimmer: Ancestral Voices - 14:39
• 3. Daniel Beban: Herakles - 8:33
• 4. Kit Powell: Dapple Metal - 9:12
• 5. Craig Sengelow: Funhouse - 11:59
• 6. Chris Cree Brown: Under Erebus - 14:42

clicka en la imagen de New Zealand Sonic Art Vol.II :
Obras de vari@s compsitores electroacústicos Neozelandeses.
Precio: NZ$30 (incl. p&p)

Inglés
This second CD in the New Zealand Sonic Art series is dedicated to the memory of Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001).

In his 1946 address to the Cambridge (New Zealand) Summer Music School Lilburn contended that the experience of living in New Zealand was remote from the music of the European masters. He suggested that New Zealand needed its own music to partly address a spiritual need for a sense of belonging.

He also noted: “I feel that a musician in this country must develop his awareness of the place he lives in, not attempting a mere imitation of nature in sound, but seeking its inner values, the manifestations of beauty and purpose it shows us from time to time, and perhaps using it as something against which he can test the validity of his own work.”

Many of his ideals seem realised in his late composition output through his electroacoustic works. Similarly, each of the works on this current CD addresses aspects of Lilburn’s ideas through a variety of techniques.

Australian Reviewer Warren Burt in Music in New Zealand (No.40 Summer 2001/2002) notes:

‘This is the second annual CD collection of electro-acoustic works by New Zealand composers, and it is an impressive one - there is not an uninteresting or unattractive piece in the lot. Each piece is filled with moments of sonic beauty and fascination’.

New Zealand Sonic Art Vol. II was officially launched on 8th March 2002 by the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Bryan Gould in the WEL Energy Trust Academy of Performing Arts Gallagher Concert Chamber at the University of Waikato.

Lissa Meridan (b.1972) graduated in May 1998 with a MMus(hons) in Composition from the University of Auckland. Her works are regularly broadcast on ConcertFM, and have been performed at concerts and in galleries and festivals in NZ, Australia, Florida, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. She has composed for a wide variety of media, including orchestra, chamber ensembles and electroacoustics.

She is a committee member and webmaster for the Composers’ Assoc. of NZ and her articles and photographs are regularly published by periodicals and journals such as Music in NZ and CANZona. She is Vice President of the Australasian Computer Music Association and was recently nominated for the ICMC Commission Award 2002. She has been a panel member for discussion forums at both Imaginary Spaces 99 (Wellington) and the Waveform Conference in Sydney 2001 and was involved in the selection of works and organisation of Interfaces 98 (Auckland).

Her primary artistic concern is with the recontextualisation of new music outside of the concert hall performance model, and this has manifested itself in multi-media collaborations with video and dance, gallery installations and interactive performances involving acoustic instruments and electronic media. More recently, her research is focused on creating both physical and virtual performance environments which encourage people to be inspired by and involved in sonic sculpture and towards a model of performance practice in electroacoustic music.

Her recent commissions include works for Victoria Jones (D.B) and Dan Poynton (pno), playwright Lucy Milner-White, and 175 East, an Auckland based contemporary music ensemble. In 1998 she was presented with a She and More “Women to Watch” award for her achievements.

She is currently Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studios at Victoria University of Wellington, where she also teaches instrumental composition, orchestration, counterpoint and acoustics. Recent recordings are available on the Atoll release Fanfares for the New Millennium and Sonic 2000: New Zealand Electronic Music.