A list of those works – compositions, installations, etc – most of which I remain happy to put my name to. Links to audio and video are provided, and you can find a bunch of recordings here.
Popular Archeology: Shellac (Op.37) (2012), 2:10. Bass clarinet and monophonic audio (bell mounted loudspeaker). Premiered by Marij van Gorkom in her Sonic Spaces series, Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, Netherlands, 13 April 2012.
Nowdrifts (2012), 14:20. Bass clarinet and multichannel audio. Premiered by Richard Haynes, Kings Place, London, 26 March 2012. Second performances by Haynes in Stroma’s Body/Drift concert, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington (NZ), 19-20 May 2012.
Cadence (2012). Installation: recombinant audio, metronome, tuning fork. Adam Art Gallery, Jan 24-April 15 2012.
Arcades (with David Prior), Who’s Most Lost? (2011), 50:40. Album released by Rattle Records (RAT-DO26).
Te Kore: Street of Breaths (2011, with Sophie Jerram). Installation: recordings of 3 kinds of breathing, each located in a different site in Istanbul. Part of Uncontainable: Second Nature, curated by Ian Clothier for ISEA 2011, Instanbul, 14 Sept-7 Oct, 2011. Breathing sounds artfully generated by Melissa Billington.
Popular Archeology: Taxman, 1966 (2011). Soprano, violin, e-guitar, e-bass, kit, piano, and cassettes. Commissioned and premiered by Lunapark, 11 May 2011, Tilburg (NL).
Popular Archeology: Cassette, 1967-1994 (18 Apr-9 May 2010). Installation: cassette players, cassette tape-loops, fluorescent lights, shelving, disused retail space. Commissioned by Letting Space, funded by Wellington Public Arts & Creative NZ. Video on Vimeo. Audio on SoundCloud.
Monarchy (2009-10), 21:00. Soundtrack to the film by London Fieldworks as part of the Superkingdom project. Honourable Mention in the Prix Ars Electronica, Hybrid Arts Category (2010). Video on Vimeo.
Diktat, Ditty, Half-Life (2009-), 6:00-. Commissioned by the piano duo Pestova/Meyer (CAN/LUX). Premiere: Luxembourg, Oct 2010. Audio on SoundCloud.
Blue Kisses Green (1999/2009), 11:30. Orchestra and multi-channel audio. Premiere: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Hamish McKeich, Wellington, May 2009
Untitled (Counterfeit Readymade #1) (2008), 7:00. Version for bass clarinet and marimba. Premiere: Richard Haynes (bcl) andArnold Marinissen (mba), Wellington, Sept 2008.
Spacebaby (2008), 20:00, soundtrack for the film of the same name. Created in collaboration with London Fieldworks, as part of the Spacebaby project, Premiered at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, July 2008
Multi-channel sound design for The Wall (2008-), an interactive multimedia installation created by Gibson Group for Te Papa, Wellington, NZ
Geophony (2008), multichannel sound installation, based on sonification of realtime data streams from seismic sensors across NZ. Commissioned by the Adam Art Gallery, as part of the Soundcheck sound art series, Wellington, March 2008
Strane e sconosciute vie (2007). Acousmatic, 3:55. Recording: Orpheus 400 [DEGEM, CD]. Audio on SoundCloud.
Prince of the Petrified Forest (2007), 30:00, soundtrack. Created in collaboration with London Fieldworks, as part of the Hibernator installation, Beaconsfield Gallery, Vauxhall, London, Mar-Apr 2007
Sang love songs (2006), 7:00, voice/percussion. Premiere: Arnold Marinissen (voice/perc), Asia Pacific Arts Festival, Wellington, Feb 2007
Hoax Rifts (2006), 6:00, junk percussion and string quartet. Premiere: Arnold Marinissen (perc) and the Zapp String Quartet, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Oct 2006
Exit Wound (2006), 10:00, chamber choir. Premiere: tba
Catalogue with Analogues (2005), 11:30, stereo audio. Recording: 4th Generation: Lilburn Electroacoustic Music Studios [CD]. Audio excerpt on SoundCloud.
Untitled (Counterfeit Readymade #1) (2005), 7:00. Baritone saxophone and marimba. Based on improvisations by Jeff Henderson (sax). Premiere: Lars Mlekusch (sax) and Arnold Marinissen (mba), Wellington, July 2005
Little Earth (2005), 30:00, 8-channel soundtrack for Little Earth, an installation by London Fieldworks. Premiere: Wapping Hydraulic Power Station (London), Jan 2005.
“Christ lag in Todesbanden” – mise en scène (2003), 10:00. Chamber ensemble and stereo audio. Premiere: Stroma/Hamish McKeich, Wellington (NZ), Sept 2003
[o] (2001), 17:50, stereo audio. Premiere: Birmingham (UK), June 2001. Audio on SoundCloud.
Numena (2000), 11:00, harp and stereo audio. Premiere: Catriona McKay, Manchester (UK), Aug 2000
Untitled – performance installation version (2000), 25:00, stereo audio. Music for solo dance, choreographed by Heather Rutland (UK). Premiere: Ljubljana, Slovenia, Aug 2000
Untitled (2000), 14:00, 8-channel audio. Music for solo dance, choreographed by Heather Rutland (UK). Premiere: Birmingham (UK), Feb 2000
Blue Kisses Green (1999), 11:00, orchestra and multi-channel audio. Premiere: Victoria University Orchestra/Peter Walls, Wellington (NZ), Aug 1999
Ways of Hearing (1998), 30:00, stereo audio. Created in collaboration with David Prior, with contributions from Ian Chuprun and Antti Saario. Premiere: Resonance FM (London), July 1998
Gastarbyter (1998), I. 8:26 and II. 8:28, 4-channel audio. Soundtracks for an installation created in collaboration with London Fieldworks, commissioned by the ICA (London). Premiere: ICA (London), May 1998. Toured in April 2002 to the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow, and in November 2002 to the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Arts (NGCA)
Horizont im Ohr (1998), 10:00, stereo audio. Premiere: Berlin, 1998. Recording: New Zealand Sonic Art 2000 [CD]. Audio on SoundCloud.
Ouïr (1996), 19:00, narrator, ensemble and stereo audio. A music-theatre piece based on Freud’s literary case study of Judge Daniel Paul Schreiber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Premiere: Epífoni/John Croft, Wellington, Aug 2006
Homage to the Night Sky’s Debris (1995, rev.2005), solo baritone saxophone. Premiere: Rachel McLarin, Wellington (NZ), May 1996. Recording: Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music – Chamber Music II [CD]. Publication: Waiteata Press Music(2006)
Architrave (1993) 5:00, solo piano. Publication: Piano Album (Wellington: Waiteata Press Music, 1995)
