Pannotia: Tjoritja (2025)
Tjoritja is a “proof-of-concept” small ensemble work that was created as part of the trialled a development process for Tectonic: Pannotia. It used a simplified score, distributed to iPad over a local netowrk in the Decibel Scoreplayer's Canvas Mode. The feedback from this performance, was that the score could be simplified further as they were superfluous, distracting or both: this included the words “high” and “low”, the second dynamic, tempo number and flashing metronome. These were removed from the Pannotia score. However, it was suggested that having a text prompt indicating the subsequent texture would assist creating transitions from one section to the next.
The work was created for a performance at Jon Rose's Corrugations series in Alice Springs, central Australia and takes the title Tjoritja from the indigenous name for the mountain range adjacent to (and surrounding) Alice Springs.The range is believed to have been created by between 630-520 million years ago, by an unusal intraplate folding of the Australian continental block.
Performances13 Jul 2025, Corrugations 23 Cat Hope (flute), Lindsay Vickery (bass clarinet) and Luìz Gubeissi (double bass)
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Tectonic: Pannotia (2025)
Pannotia is third “Tectonic” series (2008-26) composition, exploring the concept of a score-based non-linear composition with groups of musicians performing textures that interact “like Tectonic” plates. The series has evolved through a range of different approaches works investigating indeterminate structure and independent tempi (Tectonic: Vaalbara (2008), generative and collision avoidant notation (Tectonic: Rodinia [2016]);, open and “extended” forms of notation (Iapetus [2020], Mirovia [2021], generative textures (Medusoid [2022]) and textural prompts (Tjoritja [2025]). In the development process, a performance practice has evolved together with the technological affordances of each work.
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Pannotia extends the Tectonic series into telematic practice, through a distributed networked digital score using the Decibel Scoreplayer App. It uses the App’s Canvas Mode (2017) to allow an external computer to send live draw commands to multiple devices over the internet. It demonstrated that this approach as a promising and expandable medium for telematic score distribution, that enhances “telepresence” in a distributed ensemble.
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NOWNET ARTS CONFERENCE 2025: EASTERN HEMISPHERE Network Arts in Contemporary Culture, Concert Demonstration: A Performance of Large Ensemble Works. Edith Cowan Telematic Ensemble, Monash University (Melbourne), University of Sydney, Australian Institute of Music (Sydney), Griffith University (Brisbane), and the NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble (New York, Boston, Toronto, Vienna, Sao Paolo).
Lumanous (2025) for Lumatone Isomorphic keyboard
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The work was created for the Lumatone Isomorphic keyboard - first released in 2020 - an instrument designed to simplify performance in non-standard, non-chromatic scales. The Lumatone has hexagonal keys, meaning that shapes formed by the pianist’s hands will always play transpositions of the same chord or collection of notes. The keyboard is illuminated in different colours because each key is “reassignable”.so that the performer can see the geography (in colours) of each new scale.
Lumanous is an "interface" rather than a fixed composition, with unique behaviours that can’t be achieved with an acoustic instrument: the performer to control the shape (envelope), timbre, and amount of glissando and vibrato on each note via touch. The design uses an approach best described as “stochastic Interaction” in that the improviser is dealing with an interface that is always reacting slightly unpredictably, encouraging the player to explore and experiment. |
The scales used in the piece are derived from from the most prominent resonant frequencies of the room in which is was first performed - the Richard Gill Auditorium - using “Impulse Response" data created by Forrest Creative Fellow Mary Rapp.
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20251004 4 Oct 2025 Stewart Smith, Piano Panoply, Richard Gill Auditorium, Edith Cowan University
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Pannotia: Wuyi-Yunkai (2025) for flute, clarinet, viola, guzheng and percussion (tanggu and cymbal)
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TENOR2025: The 10th International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (Beijing).
Yeperenye Fence (2025) with Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor
