for orchestra Panel Prize Winner in the 2006 Douglas Lilburn Prize Recorded by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and broadcast on Concert FM

Circuit:Spiral is one possible commentary on the nature of recurrence, both real and imagined. Materials are reused at fairly short intervals in a spiral or coil framework, sometimes quoted exactly, often altered drastically and always recontextualised to achieve a sense of continual development. The composer is interested in first reactions to pieces of new music: does the mind recall sonic events and conjure meaningful relationships between them, or, in the absense of repeated hearings, is the new musical experience heard simply as fantasia?

Circuit:Spiral was written for the 2006 Douglas Lilburn Prize, for which it won the Panel Prize component.