Login

Enter your username and password

Forgotten your username or password?

Your Shopping Cart

There are no items in your shopping cart.

Work

Ddig Hapus : (Happy Angry), for guitar, trumpet and trombone

by Christian O'Brien (2016)

Score Sample

View a sample of the score of this work

Audio Sample

Performance by Ensemble Three from the CD Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 91.

Selected products featuring this work — Display all products (1 more)

Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 91.

Non-Commercial

This item is not commercially available from the Australian Music Centre. We regret that we cannot offer it for sale.

CD

Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 91.

Library shelf no. CD 2930 [Available for loan]

Display all products featuring this work (1 more)  

Work Overview

Autism Spectrum Disorder affects children affects 1 in every 42 boys and 1 in 189 Australian girls. ASD affects how people communicate and interact with others. It affects how they make sense of the world. Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) therapy helps children with autism develop their social, academic, self-help and behavioural skills needed to interact with others and to cope with the tests of life.
ddig Hapus (Angry Happy) was inspired by the observing ABA therapy sessions with autistic children, watching the struggle for clarity, the stereotypic, self-stimulatory behaviour these children use, often unceasingly, to cope.
The principal idea presented here is a response to this 'stimming', frantic playful rhythms and constantly interrupted ideas. The second section is a response to the plight of the relationship between parent and autistic child, attempting to reach their child and the fleeting moments of perceived connection and painful distance.
The drastic contrast in registers and harmonic textures between the horns and guitar allowed an expressive dialog of the thematic material. This unique ensemble affords opportunity for new harmonic consequences.

Work Details

Year: 2016

Instrumentation: Classical guitar, trumpet, trombone.

Duration: 5 min.

Difficulty: Advanced

Commission note: Commissioned by Ensemble 3.

First performance: by Ensemble Three — 20 Jul 15. Global Perspectives, Australian Context, School of the Arts Singapore Concert Hall

Performances of this work

20 Jul 15: Global Perspectives, Australian Context, School of the Arts Singapore Concert Hall. Featuring Ensemble Three.

User reviews

Be the first to share your thoughts, opinions and insights about this work.

To post a comment please login.