Performed by soprano Mere Boynton at the Auckland Arts Festival concert, 'Clarion', 16 March 2020.
Mere Boynton Photo: Supplied
Eve de Castro-Robinson writes:
While thinking about producing a tribute to Stockhausen specifically for singer-songwriter Karen Hunter to perform, I decided to base it on Stockhausen’s famous vocal work Stimmung, focussing only on names of Maori gods. I then learnt of the very sad early death of NZ singer Māhinaarangi Tocker, literally while I was eating muttonbird for the first time, at Moeraki. Various elements thus came into play in the work – tuning, lamentation, the elements, Maori waiata and a strong sense of ritual.
The Maori word hau has a variety of meanings including wind and breath.
Recorded by RNZ Concert in the Auckland Arts Festival's Spiegeltent, 16 March 2020
Producer: Tim Dodd; Engineer: Adrian Hollay
