postcards 3 & 4 - supporter page

welcome to the online home of postcards 3 & 4 - below, you will find a demo recording of each postcard and a typeset pdf of the score if you wish to play the pieces for yourself (from a version of the music that is a little easier to read!). in this postcard drop, the postcards you received in the mail are slightly different to the typeset pdfs.

I hope you are intrigued to take a look behind the scenes and learn more about the music!

you are welcome to download the demo recordings below. at the conclusion of the project, i’ll be recording all of the postcard pieces in the studio to accompany the book of sheet music I plan to release.

i’d love to know any impressions/thoughts/ideas you have about this project - feel free to also pass it onto to anyone who might be interested to join in…it’s not too late! people can sign-up at anytime and regardless will receive the full postcard experience! 😊

about mobile of leaves

Over the recent months, I have had the pleasure of spending time on Gamilaraay country. In April, I travelled around Coonabarabran and ended up at Outback Arts, Coonamble. Alongside Laura Andrew (music teacher extraordinaire!), we installed ‘Sounds & Stories' - our sound installation/project with Cobar High School students. In May, I spent one of the most special weeks I’ve ever experienced as part of Moorambilla Voices Cultural Immersion with treasured time learning about and experience the Warrumbungle National Park and Narran Lake Nature Reserve (near Lightning Ridge). mobile of leaves is something between an observation, music game and score. whilst in these places…my eyes dance at all that surrounds me! whilst sitting by ‘Milky Lake’ @ Narran, my attention was particularly captured by wind travelling through pastel leaves, framed by the blue of the sky.

in mobile of leaves, each leaf is a cell that one can repeat (or not), improvise, play and muck around with. the score is most definitely open for interpretation and a chance for those playing these postcards at home to explore!

for those of you inclined to craft and make - I’ve created a score with instructions how to turn the piece into an actual mobile - so that you can let your performance by guided by leaves of notation dancing in the wind. click the ‘sheet music pdf’ button below!

a short film experiment (filmed in the Warrumbungle National Park)
framed between two ‘mobiles of leaves’ near Milky Lake @ Narran Lake Nature Reserve, Yuwaalayaay country, nsw

each leaf is free for you to interpret - listen to some possible interpretations below…

mobiles & globokar

whilst studying at the Con, I spent many hours down in the depths of the library… buried in scores with my headphones on. Vinko Globokar is one composer who’s work I spent many hours with in the Con library. Globokar’s Fluide & Mobile (1967) for 9 winds and percussion features a musical ‘mobile’ in the middle of the work. at this point of the work, each musician is free to choose their own way through the mobile, avoiding repetition. my mobile of leaves (though vastly different in sonic language and purpose), is a little wave of thanks to Globokar whose work has provided me with endless hours of curiosity.

about paper theatre

oh no! my postcard piece didn’t make it in its entirety onto the print!
…a balance between fitting in my illustration of a ‘theatre of the ear’ and as much notation as possible!

at the moment, I have been spending pockets of timing researching various theatre traditions of bygone eras… this research is for secret reasons 🤫 that will be revealed within a new work for flute and percussion that I am excited to be composing for a wonderful team of musicians, made possible by the APRA Art Music Fund. for now, all I’ll say is that I have been thinking about ancient greek theatre masks, paper theatres and other such things. in my previous postcard drop, you may remember me mentioning that combinations of words often instigate an idea for a piece. ‘paper theatre’ is a combo of words that has been sitting for quite some time in my idea dump (a Notion database where I keep track of any random, nonsensical, messy ideas that pop into my brain!). letting my mind wander from those words, whilst sitting at the piano results in this tune. I hope to record this as a piece for prepared piano in the future.

changing ears

last year I curated an entire concert of ears as part of the music box project’s Upstairs @ The Glebe series.
below, you can explore the necessarily chaotic zine that accompanied the concert!