circuit:spiral
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for score sample in pdf (pages 1-8) programme note: 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.
year:
2005
instrumentation:
3322; 4431; hp; timp; 2 perc; strings duration:
11'
awarded:
recording: New
Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Hamish
McKeich - a Radio
New Zealand Concert recording
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.