I am a hollow round tube (2020)
for flute, amplification, and flute-like objects – with video footage inside metal tubes
In this piece, the performer sucks and blows across the body a flute from the reverse end to the mouthpiece in one long breath. There is a timeline score written above an image of a flute, which gives instructions to the performer along the way.
The flute is amplified with a lapel mic to bring out the nuances of the sounds.
The final page offers a variation on the performance, where the flute is replaced with a variety of different flute sized objects, played in succession. The title is a type of object-oriented-ontology, where it is as if the performer is embodying the perspective
and sentience of the flute in a quasi-ritual.
There is also a video that accompanies the performance which consists of footage taken from inside different metal tubes. See below a series of still images from the video.
Links to more works
By Type
- Water Pail (2021) 8 large cooking oil drums, 8 transducers, 4 audio playback devices with amplifiers, exposed speaker, finger cymbals, metal güiro, water, brushes, soft and rubber mallets – for solo percussionist.
- I am a hollow round tube (2020) (in-progress) for flute and flute-like objects
- New Possibilities for Misunderstanding (2019-20) for microtonal horn, tape, preparations, and theatrics
- Ontogeny (2019) (in-progress) for piccolo and electronic playback
- Hyperbodies (2015) for robot piano 10’29” [MIDI]
- Mapping Australia (2014) – for piano and electronics with video score 7′ [multimedia]
- Serpentine (2017) for erhu and percussion 7′ [multimedia]
- Memory Tape (2015) – for cello, trombone, and recorded media 11′
- Undulations (2014) – for two soprano saxophones 6’09”
- The Three Ecologies (2020) (in-progress) for horn, oboe, bassoon and electronics
- Miniatures (2018) for piano, flute, cello, percussion, with electronics and field recordings [for a website]
- A Sense of Space (2015/16) for flute, nylon guitar, and soprano with percussion 10′
- Lines of Fragmentation (2015) for trumpet, trombone and two percussionists 6’03”
- Whale Fall (2021) for flute, violin, cello, e-bass, piano, percussion, electronics, video, and spoken word (dream recall recordings).
- Animal (2015) for violin, cello, percussion, keyboard, and choir with video score 10′ [multimedia]
- Antibiosis (2011) – for chamber ensemble and recorded media 10’25″
- The Expansive Water (2010) – for chamber orchestra 7’36″
- Finding Kensho (2012) – for chamber orchestra – Premiered by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 8’15″
- The Three Ecologies (2020) – electronic part 6’43”
- Whale Fall (2021) – electronic part and spoken word (dream recall recording) 7’52”
- Temporal Planes (2013) – Electronic Media [Recording] – Performed and Recorded by Entoptic Ensemble – 17’04″
- Everything Painted on the Veil (2012) – Album by Entoptic
- Music in Impossible Spaces I II III & IV (2021) music for different dream and waking states
- Dream Recorder (2020) for a dreamt sub-contrabass recorder (part of the imaginary sound art series)
- Rush tones (2020) for one or more accordions along a river stream (part of the imaginary sound art series)
- Water Pail (2021) 8 large cooking oil drums, 8 transducers, 4 audio playback devices with amplifiers, exposed speaker, finger cymbals, metal güiro, water, brushes, soft and rubber mallets – for solo percussionist.
- The Glass of Imagination (2020) is a website containing video samples of singing wine glasses and bells ringing, tuned to different microtonal pitches, to be performed on multiple devices.
- Copy-Make (2015) Interactive video installation, made as part of ‘Composition Beyond Music’, in Graz, Austria.