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10 November 2024
James Gardner remembers These Hopeful Machines (in interview with Tim Dodd 2024)
These Hopeful Machines Episode 1
Recording and electricity crack open the world of sound.
Presented by James Gardner.
(RNZ)
Lilburn, Douglas: Seventeen Short Pieces for guitar - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)
Norris, Michael: Waipounamu - Julia Mirzoev (violin) (RNZ MHIVC23)
Tlaotlon: Open Systems - Jeremy Coubrough (electronics) (World Memory 2015)
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John RIMMER: Composition 4 for flute and electronic sounds
5 Oct 2019Performed by Uwe Grodd at the Karlheinz Company's "John Rimmer at 80" tribute concert, 26 May 2019. Read more Video, Audio
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John RIMMER: Three Character Sketches
5 Oct 2019Performed by Stephen De Pledge (piano) at the Karlheinz Company's "John Rimmer at 80" tribute concert, 26 May 2019. Read more Audio
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Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: remembering
5 Oct 2019Performed by Barkin Sertkaya (guitar) at the Karlheinz Company's "John Rimmer at 80" tribute concert, 26 May 2019. Read more Audio
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John RIMMER: Alleluia
5 Oct 2019Performed by Morag Atchison and the Accord Women's Choir conducted by Robert Wiremu at the Karlheinz Company's "John Rimmer at 80" tribute concert, 26 May 2019. Read more Video, Audio
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Exclusive: Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood
28 Sep 2019Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead’s lead guitarist-turned-orchestral composer, discusses the wonderful absurdity of being programmed alongside Haydn and Ravel for the NZSO’s Shed Series in Wellington. Read more Video
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Salina FISHER: Tupaia (première)
14 Sep 2019New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edo de Waart. Read more Audio
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Gendall's piece revisits shameful stain on Aotearoa’s past
31 Aug 2019A horrifying mass execution in New Zealand during World War 2, was the unlikely inspiration for Chris Gendall’s Incident Tableaux Part One - a challenging look back at a shameful stain on Aotearoa’s… Read more Video
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Silver Scroll finalists for SOUNZ Contemporary and Screen Awards announced
16 Aug 2019Several of New Zealand’s best composers have been shortlisted for three prestigious awards in contemporary composition, film and television scoring ahead of the APRA Silver Scroll Awards in Auckland… Read more Video
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Richard Francis work inspired by poetic portrayal of time
10 Aug 2019'I, Time'...by Auckland composer Richard Francis, is based on New Zealand poet Allen Curnow's Time - a mediation on the slippery and paradoxical concept of time. Read more Video
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From composing to computers with Barry Vercoe
29 Jul 2019Barry Vercoe is a New-Zealand-born composer you may not have heard of – at least as far as composing goes. But in the field of computer audio, he’s something of a legendary figure. Read more Audio
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250-million-year-old super ocean inspires new album
27 Jul 2019The new album Panthalassa by Al Fraser, Neil Johnstone, and Sam Leamy blends instruments & NIWA's hydro-phonic recordings to reflect the strangeness of marine animal consciousness. Read more Video
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Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue
20 Jul 2019Ryan Smith explores the world of 'Moondog', the American street musician who became an iconic figure in New York City. Read more Audio
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