Aaron CASSIDY

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from The Crutch of Memory (2004)

 

chronological listing  2010.09   2008.7    2006.04   2003   2002   2001.00   1999.97

listing by instrumental forces  solo   chamber   ensemble

MP3 excerpts are provided only as samples.  Full-length recordings and scores of all works are available by contacting mail [at] aaroncassidy.com.

   
 

2006

songs only as sad as their listener

[ solo trombone with wispa mute ] 

World premiere:  Ben Marks (ELISION), Cassidy Portrait Concert & Broadcast, ABC Ferry Road Studios, Brisbane, Australia, July 2008.

Sound Sample | Score Sample | Program Note

I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips

[ solo voice (with live, computer-generated pitch material) ] 

On texts by Christian Bök (“Voile,” from Eunoia), Arthur Rimbaud (“Voyelles”), and an anonymous Rimbaud translation (“Vowels”).

Technical assistant: Brett Masteller.

World premiere:  Carl Rosman (ELISION), Australian National Academy of Music, South Melbourne Town Hall, Australia, May 2007.

Sound Sample | Score Sample | Program Note | Video

See also:  “Determinate Action/Indeterminate Sound: Tablature and chance in several recent works.” Facets of the Second Modernity. New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century, Volume 6. Mahnkopf, Schurig and Cox, eds. Wolke Verlag, June 2008.

2004

The Crutch of Memory

[ indeterminate solo string instrument ]

World Premiere, Mieko Kanno, violin.  Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, November 2005.  Broadcast by BBC Radio 3, January 28, 2006.

Sound Sample | Score Sample | Program Note

See also:  “Determinate Action/Indeterminate Sound: Tablature and chance in several recent works.” Facets of the Second Modernity. New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century, Volume 6. Mahnkopf, Schurig and Cox, eds. Wolke Verlag, June 2008.

See also:  Mieko Kanno, "Prescriptive Notation:  Limits and challenges," Contemporary Music Review, vol. 26, issue 2 (April 2007), pp. 231 - 254.

"the green is where" alternate version 

[ solo violin ] 

Also can be used as the violin part in a/grammatical study for three
(quasi-)independent players
.

Sound Sample | Score Sample | Program Note

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