The Mystery of the Cave

The Mystery of the Cave As I suffer from claustrophobia due to an incident as a child, confined spaces are not for me. However, the thought of hearing beautiful recorder music in a cave won't stop me from writing a piece that is to be played in a confined space. This five-movement work is composed with the thought of using the ambience of the cave as a large part of the sound of the piece. The recorders needed to perform this suite...

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Journeys

Journeys is an album of orchestral music inspired by the artworks and displays in the exhibition Journeys in the National Museum of Australia Everyone goes on different journeys throughout their life, and this musical journey not only ties in with the exhibition but this album creates an emotional landscape that will make you feel you are somewhere else. This track titled, A Boy who became the Moon, was inspired by an artwork title Moon...

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Thrown into the World

Thrown into the World Famous philosophers Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre both used the term, thrown into the world to describe how humans had no choice of being born and as Sartre said, "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." Both philosophers were talking about the struggle that humankind has to go through, just to be human. But, in that struggle, there...

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