Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Sad Machines
The symbols a:b in the titles refer to the lengths of rhythmic units that run simultaneously throughout each piece. Each piece occupies its own harmonic and melodic space hinting at borrowings from distinct familiar genres.
The pieces are not difficult to play although these renditions were made on the pseudo-piano. (Wirripang has the notated version.)

The young person at Cristofori's arpicembalo
25 Canons
The idea of the canon is appealing because it involves a relatively short fragment of melody combined with itself and repeated a lot - a kind of ancient minimalism.
Recent antecedents for these canons are the rather more sophisticated canons of Moondog (Louis Hardin) and the multi-speed self-similar canonic constructions of Tom Johnson. Mine are by comparison short and easy and were written with pedagogical intent.
Bartolomeo Cristofori invented what came to be called the
piano in Tuscany around the year 1700. That we continue to
play the instrument or its descendants after 300 years is
testament to Cristofori's ingenious mechanism. That we
continue to bestow a special and peculiar cultural valuation on
the modern piano is a matter for serious reflection.
These canons, like those of Tom Johnson, involve the idea of self-similarity. Certain melodic or harmonic sequences can progress at different rates in such a way that the voices are in unison (or in harmony) whenever they coincide.

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