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Joy Extract (quintets: flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello)

by Alice Chance and Chloe Kim (2025)

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Work Overview

Joy Extract asks what it means to extract joy through music by using stages of a scientific extraction process as a framework - the kind used, for example, to obtain eucalyptus oil from a leaf. Each stage becomes a movement, and the music draws additional inspiration from the work of three pioneering Australian women: botanist and advocate Olive Pink, geologist Dorothy Hill, and plant scientist Professor Adrienne Clarke

Work Details

Year: 2025

Instrumentation: Flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello.

Duration: 20 min.

Difficulty: Advanced

Contents note: I. Harvest --  II. Prepare -- III. Add Water -- IV. Heat -- V. Collect -- VI. Separate -- VII. Purify.

Commission note: Commissioned by Melbourne Recital Centre for performance by Syzygy Ensemble.. This commission was made possible thanks to the generous support of The Aranday Foundation and the Yulgilbar Foundation.

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