2020

Aresti Diagrams [2020] for electric guitar and clarinet

Aresti Diagrams are a notation used in aircraft competitions to choreograph permitted aerobatic manoeuvers. The notation was developed by Spanish aviator Colonel José Luis Aresti Aguirre [1919-2003]. The notation is interpreted by two performers as a series of sonic gestures. In this version there are two recordings, each one combines 2 diagrams.

Mueller [2020] for turntable, bass clarinet, viola, cello, piano and percussion

This is an “extreme sightreading” work in which each of the 448 pages of the redacted Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III appear in front of the ensemble on average for 270 milliseconds. Performers are asked to react the this “score” as quickly as possible, responding only to the redactions and colours. The brief 2 minute duration of the work, the reaction to what is hidden and moments of colour, reflects reaction to the real report, that is thought to have been read by about 3% of the US population.

Recording - Decibel: Two Minutes from Home Project

Lindsay Vickery 'Mueller' 2 Minutes From Home #6 from Decibel New Music Ensemble on Vimeo.

Decibel 
Cat Hope - turntables 
Lindsay Vickery - bass clarinet 
Aaron Wyatt - Viola
​Tristen Parr - Cello 
Stuart James - Piano 
Louise Devenish - Percussion ​

Jingee [2020] for flute, bass clarinet, guitar and fixed media 

Performances
20200522 SHOCKOFTHENEW Sound Spectrum Festival

A collective "social distancing" work in which performers play a recording of honeyeaters (Noongar: Jingee) into an outdoor environment and then record three sounds at varying distances. The recordings were then arranged in chronological order by the time of day they were recorded.

A recording of honeyeaters slowed by about 20% and a recording of a clarinet multiphonic similarly stretched were they used as an underscore for the collected recordings. In the live performance, three instrumentalist perform with the final recording, using a pallet of its principal pitches.

 Iapetus Ocean [2020] for telematic ensemble

Iapetus Ocean was originally conceived as a telematic work and was workshopped during the initial lockdown in Perth, Australia. It is named for the Ocean formed when the Neoproterozoic supercontinent Pannotia broke apart. It is intended as a sibling to my realtime generative "Tectonic" works Rodinia and Vaalbara. Iapetus Ocean uses the notation developed for Tectonic: Rodinia, but does not involve any realtime manipulation of musical materials. 

Performances
20210514 Comprovisation Concert, Tenor 2021/Klingt gut! Symposium on Sonic Art and Spatial Audio, HfMT Forum.
20200519 Ecuatorial Sound Spectrum Festival.

Mannaitch Sketch [2020] for clarinet and fixed media 

Performances
​NoizeMachin!! #106 28 April 8PM AWST

Mannaitch is the Noongar word for “white cockatoo”, one of the two essential moieties of Noongar kinship. These Mannaitch were recorded on the South Perth foreshore in January. Dominant pitches from the recordings are reproduced electronically and by a solo clarinet.