Tekee Tokee Tomak Tour USA - program information

The Tekee Tokee Tomak Tour
presented by Ros Dunlop & Martin Wesley-Smith

USA and Canada, Sept-Oct 2003

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introduction
In March 2002, Australian clarinettist Ros Dunlop and composer Martin Wesley-Smith were invited to present a concert at the Northern Territory University in Darwin. Being so close to East Timor, a tiny half-island virtually destroyed by departing Indonesian troops in September 1999, they decided to go there to present two of Martin's audio-visual pieces about the country and the plight of its people. With Martin's brother, Darwin activist Rob Wesley-Smith, they presented six concerts, met many local people, and saw for themselves not only the devastation of the land but also the generosity and spirit, despite incredible adversity, of the people. In July, after East Timor had become independent, they went back, travelling further afield and presenting more concerts.
Many of the concerts on the current tour - the Tekee Tokee Tomak Tour - feature the two works - "X" and "Welcome to the Hotel Turismo" - that they presented in East Timor, plus a third - "Tekee Tokee Tomak" - composed since then, which uses some of the images captured on those visits. Martin's piece about Afghanistan - "Merry-Go-Round" - was also played there, attracting much interest (here was a situation that most people knew little about but which they could see was similar, in many ways, to their own). A new piece, composed since the "Coalition of the Willing"'s 2003 invasion of Iraq, adds even more topical relevance to this tour.
East Timor has been a cause celèbre for many Australian activists since 1975, when Indonesia invaded with tacit support from America, Australia and Great Britain. Most people saw the issue as uncontestable: Indonesia had no right to be there. What's more, its army, the TNI, treated the people with disdain, raping and killing with impunity. Now, after independence, it's a very different struggle - against poverty, corruption, environmental destruction, local ignorance of democratic processes, the machinations of powerful neighbours, and so on - as East Timor attempts to build a new society.
"Tekee tokee tomak" means, in Tetum, something like "Let's all get together", which we believe the East Timorese need to do, not only with each other but with people in other countries who are eager to help. After the initial enthusiasm that accompanied East Timor's independence celebrations, on May 20 last year, harsh reality, including recent riots in Dili, has set in. There's a tough road ahead, but if they employ the resilience they showed during the twenty-four-year Indonesian occupation, and if they receive the help they have been promised, success will be theirs.
In January 2003, Ros and Martin toured the UK and Hong Kong, receiving assistance via a Pathways grant from the Music Board of the Australia Council (the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body). They are hoping to receive similar assistance for this tour.

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biographical notes
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Ros Dunlop has been a strong advocate for the cause of new music for the clarinet for most of her professional life. She has premiered many new compositions for clarinet, many of them having been written especially for her. She has performed throughout Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Europe and the USA, including a recital of Australian works at the International Clarinet Festival in New Orleans in August 2001. Her three solo CDs have received wide acclaim. As a member of the chamber duo "Charisma", she premiered five multimedia works at the 2002 Darwin International Guitar Festival and recently released a CD of works for clarinet and cello. She is also a member of the clarinet duo "Touchbass", with whom she premiered a number of newly commissioned works at the 2002 Australian National Clarinet Festival. She teaches clarinet at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
For more information, see http://www.greatwhitenoise.net/rosdunlop/

Martin Wesley-Smith is an eclectic composer at home in a diverse range of idioms. Two main themes dominate his music: the life, work and ideas of Lewis Carroll (e.g. the chamber piece "Snark-Hunting", the choral piece "Songs for Snark-Hunters", and the full-length choral music theatre piece "Boojum!"); and the plight of the people of East Timor (e.g. "Kdadalak (For the Children of Timor)" and "VENCEREMOS!"). His collaborator on many projects is his brother, librettist/lyricist Peter Wesley-Smith. A multimedia version of their "audio-visual music theatre" piece "Quito" - about schizophrenia and East Timor - has been performed many times in many countries by Australian vocal group The Song Company. One of his pieces - "For Marimba & Tape" - is the most-performed piece of Australian so-called "serious art-music" (it exists in versions for other instruments, too, including "For Clarinet & Tape").
Martin studied for a DPhil at the University of York, under Richard Orton, between 1971 and 1974. It was here that his interest in audio-visual composition started to materialise. Back in Australia, as Lecturer in Electronic Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, he became a pioneer of this art form, firstly with multiple computer-controlled slide projectors and then with computer-fed LCD projectors. In 1986, he established the first computer music studio in the People's Republic of China (at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing). In 1994 and 1995 he taught at the University of Hong Kong. He now lives in a rainforest south of Sydney as a full-time composer, duck keeper and, increasingly, musical activist.
For more information, see http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~mwsmith

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Elena Kats-Chernin 25 Measures

Margery Smith/Will Frasier Aurora

Steve Ingham Bastard's Broth
Jane Brockman Circles in the Sun
Richard Vella Cut to the Chase

Eric Mandat Etude for Barney

Graham Hair Frenzy and Folly, Fire and Joy

John Rimmer Hauturu
Barney Childs Instant Winners
Michael Lowenstern King Friday
Martin Wesley-Smith Merry-Go-Round
Nigel Westlake Onomatopoeia
Paul Witney Scream
Elliott Carter Steep Steps
Jane Brockman Tagore Songs
Martin Wesley-Smith Tekee Tokee Tomak
Martin Wesley-Smith Weapons of Mass Distortion
Martin Wesley-Smith Welcome to the Hotel Turismo
Martin Wesley-Smith X
Judy Bailey You Can Take it Anywhere!

Elena Kats-Chernin:

25 Measures
for solo clarinet [1996]

This quirky minature was written for clarinettist Peter Jenkin in 1996, when Kats-Chernin was in residence in the Peggy Glanville-Hicks house in Sydney. Its wit and charm is typical of the composer's style.

Elena Kats-Chernin is a composer of international repute. Born in Tashkent, in the former USSR, in 1957, she migrated to Australia in 1975, studying at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Her works have been commissioned and performed by ensembles and orchestras all over the world, from state theatres in Berlin and Vienna to the Ensemble Modern in Germany (which premiered "Clocks" in 1993) and the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. She has received many prizes for her work, including a Sounds Australian Award for best composition and, in 1996, the Jean Bogan Memorial Prize. In 2002, performances of her work were heard at a number of festivals, including the Salzburg Festival, the Ruemlingen Festival (Switzerland), and the Darwin International Guitar Festival. She is published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Margery Smith/Will Frasier:

Aurora
for bass clarinet & CD [2001]

Aurora was composed as a collaborative project with Will Frasier, a wonderful musician who plays keyboards and creates sounds on computer. He is a member of a band called The Hive and studied composition at the University of Sydney. The work was created in three different stages: firstly, I recorded a sustained cluster on a Hammond organ, phasing the drawbars to create different rhythms as the partials of the pitches transformed; secondly, I recorded some bass clarinet improvisations that Will then processed digitally. That completed the CD part. I then created a free counterpoint over this - the only part of the music that is notated - with extensive improvised sections. At the time this piece was created, I was in the middle of a Canadian winter. I wanted to create the feeling of a huge space, the continual shift of focus suggesting the flickering lights of the Aurora Borealis.

Margery Smith is an accomplished clarinettist as well as composer, having held the position of Associate Principal Clarinet with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Her solo engagements have included appearances with the SSO as a soloist on clarinet and saxophone. She is member of The Seymour Group, and is Lecturer in Clarinet and Saxophone at The University of Newcastle Conservatorium of Music. In 1997 she studied composition (with Malcolm Singer) and improvisation at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She has worked in a leadership role with young children and adults in Australia, Canada and England, and has a lively interest in improvisation in all genres of music. Her works have been performed throughout Australasia and the UK.

Steve Ingham:

Bastard's Broth
for bass clarinet & CD [1993]

Bastard's Broth was commissioned by Northern Arts (UK) and first performed by Steve Cottrell at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The title is a reference to the classic album by Miles Davis, "Bitches' Brew", and is a surrealistic melange of jazz styles in which the soloist fights a lonely battle with an unrelenting sequenced tape part.

Born in London, Steve Ingham studied at the University of York with Bernard Rands, the University of Bloomington, Indiana, with Donald Erb, and, later, with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik, Freiburg. He is now Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales.

Jane Brockman:

Circles in the Sun
for clarinet & CD [2002]

Shortly before embarking on this piece, I read a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges titled The Circular Ruins. In it, a wizard paddles upstream to an overgrown abandoned ritual site in the forest, the sacred circle of the god of fire. There he begins the arduous task of dreaming a man. Yes, through his dreams, after untold torment and numerous false starts over several years, he did indeed produce a son.

The wizard spent years instructing his son in the mysteries of the universe and the cult of fire. When he was ready, the young man was sent downstream many miles away, but, first, the wizard destroyed in the boy's memory all recollection of knowing he was merely a phantom. Later, the wizard heard talk of a charmed young man, at a temple in the North, who was able to walk on fire. "Of all the creatures that people the earth, Fire was the only one who knew his son to be a phantom".

As the story ends, with fire engulfing his circle in the forest, the old wizard must come to terms with his own death. Prepared to walk into the flames, "with relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he also was an illusion, that someone else was dreaming him." Like the story, the music is about circles with circles.

J.B.

After twelve years of university teaching, Jane Brockman moved to Southern California, where she now writes concert and film music. She was the first woman to gain a doctorate in music composition at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The recipient of many grants and fellowships, her work is widely published and recorded.

Richard Vella:

Cut to the Chase
for clarinet solo [1996]

Cut to the Chase was written for clarinettist Peter Jenkin in 1996. Peter had requested a one-minute clarinet solo with the same virtuosity as Vella's "Tango", for clarinet and piano, but much shorter. The resultant gem demands that the soloist conceal breath intakes in order to reinforce the relentless moto perpetuo style. The title refers to early vaudeville routines when the artist, upon realising that the audience is not responding or that something has gone wrong, "cuts to the chase" - when he or she is chased around the stage to close the act.

Richard Vella's output includes works for orchestra, choir, film, CD-ROM, chamber music, music theatre, and site-specific performance as well as popular and dance music. Some of his works are recognised as set repertoire e.g. "Tango", for clarinet, and the guitar solos "Between Earth and Air", "River" and "Mirrors of Fire". His film credits include "Light Years", "Parklands", "Bodysongs", "Wendy Sharpe" and "Renzo Piano: piece by piece", for which he won the 1999 Australian Screen Composer's Award for best music for a documentary.

Richard is founder and artistic director of Calculated Risks Opera Productions, a company that explores the relationships between performance, audience, location and musical and theatrical forms. Between 1996 and 1997 he was Professor and Chair of Music at La Trobe University. Currently Adjunct Professor in Music at the Queensland University of Technology, he directs the music publishing program of the performing arts publisher Currency Press. In 2000, Currency published his book "Musical Environments", a manual for developing musical thinking via improvisation, composition and listening.

Eric Mandat:

Etude for Barney
for clarinet solo [1990]

Phillip Rehfeldt asked a number of composers, and clarinet composer/performers, to write short pieces for Barney Childs. This was Eric's response.

Eric Mandat, a composer/clarinetist, is professor of music at the University of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, teaching clarinet. A prolific composer for clarinet and bass clarinet, he has recorded and performed extensively throughout the USA with a wide variety of musicians. His mentor has been William O. Smith.

Graham Hair:

Frenzy and Folly, Fire and Joy
for clarinet [1999]

"All the uproarious pipes we played! Frenzy and folly, fire and joy!". The quote is from Australian poet John Shaw Neilson, whose poems have inspired several of the composer's works. This one is in 'ballad' form with nine 'verses'. The characteristic feature is that, despite a recurring 'rhyme-scheme' and unifying ideas from verse to verse, each one shakes a new narrative 'twist' out of its sleeve to produce something mid-way between strophic and 'through-composed' form, as well as mid-way between tonal and atonal styles.

Born in Geelong, Victoria, Graham Hair studied at the University of Melbourne, graduating with his Bachelor of Music degree in 1964, and with his M.Mus. in 1967. After the presentation of his M.Mus. thesis on twelve-tone music, he went to Adelaide, where he studied with Peter Maxwell Davies at the Elder Conservatorium.

Hair was awarded a Commonwealth UK Scholarship for 1967-70, and accordingly travelled to Britain. At the University of Sheffield he worked on a thesis on Schoenberg, and graduated with his Ph.D. in 1973. He returned to Australia in 1971, and taught piano in Geelong for the two years remaining of his doctoral study. In 1973 he was appointed to the Riverina College of Advanced Education as a member of the music education staff, but left to study computer music as a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, in the USA, in 1974.

Returning after two years' study in the States, Hair joined the staff of the Music Faculty of La Trobe University in Melbourne under Keith Humble. Hair worked at La Trobe for three years before taking leave in order to travel to Paris to work at the Institute for Research in Music and Acoustics there. Returning to Australia in 1981, he accepted an appointment as Head of the School of Composition at the NSW Conservatorium of Music (now Sydney Conservatorium of Music). Hair remained there until 1990 when he took up the position of Gardiner Professor at the University of Glasgow.

Hair has received many commissions from such ensembles and organisations as the Seymour Group, Duo Contemporain, Flederman, Voiceworks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Astra Chamber Music Society, and the Bicentennial Authority of NSW. He has held residencies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983) and at the Canberra School of Music (1995).

Apart from his composition and teaching work, Graham Hair is also active in the performance world. He was a founding member and pianist of Flederman, founder and director of Voiceworks, and the founder and director of the Scottish Voices Ensemble.

John Rimmer:

Hauturu
for bass clarinet [1992]

This piece ("Where the Winds Rest") was was inspired by a visit to the rugged island of Little Barrier (Hauturu), a bird sanctuary in the Hauraki gulf, with its largely unspoilt grandeur, rugged beaches and huge trees amid thick jungle, and the remarkable variety and sounds of the indigenous birds. Several new techniques for bass clarinet used include colour fingerings, tremolos and vocal effects, and soft aeolian breath sounds reminiscent of wind through trees.

The music of John Rimmer covers a wide range of genres, including electronic and computer music. Recently retired from the University of Auckland, where he held the position of Chair of the School of Music, he is currently Auckland Philharmonia's composer in residence. He now divides his time between composing and conducting.

Barney Childs:

Instant Winners
for Eb clarinet [1984]

Until recently limited to transcriptions, the solo literature for Eb clarinet has begun to include new music written immediately for the instrument and performed by specialists such as Virginia Anderson, whose work inspired these pieces. Of the nine short "Instant Winners," none much more than a minute long, any number may be performed in any order. They explore contrasting sonic resources (reed taps, multiphonics, squeaks, speaking, as fast as possible random finger movements, quarter tones, hum and play, foot stomping) or, should one wish to hear them as such, musical moods.

Barney Childs was largely self-taught until the early 1950s, when he studied at Tanglewood with Carlos Chavez and Aaron Copland and in New York with Elliott Carter. Eclectic in nature, Childs' compositions freely explored diverse avenues of musical thought and drew inspiration from many sources, including traditional western concert music (especially that of such composers as Hindemith, Ives, Ruggles and Copland), the open form works of John Cage, and jazz of all styles.

Michael Lowenstern:

King Friday
for bass clarinet & CD [1996]

King Friday is in response to an episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman was the guest and the two of them were at Joe Negre's music shop. Watching this episode unfold, I figured this was going to be ripe with possibilities so I immediately popped in a video cassette. Stoltzman was describing the members of the clarinet family when Mr. Rogers asked, 'What's that big one?' Stoltzman answered, 'Oh that's a bass clarinet. It's found mostly in bands. It's pretty obscure and hard to play. There isn't really much call for it.' I was livid. Since both King Friday and Mr. Stoltzman were living in the land of make-believe, I was inspired to write this piece.

[ML]

Bass clarinetist Michael Lowenstern has performed, recorded and toured with ensembles of every variety including The Klezmatics, The Steve Reich Ensemble, The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2000 he was appointed 2000 to the New Jersey Symphony. Also active as a composer for concert, recordings, dance, film, CD-ROM, advertising, and his own performing ensembles, he is on the faculty of the Juilliard School.

Martin Wesley-Smith:

Merry-Go-Round
for clarinet, cello & CD-ROM [2002]
or, for this tour, clarinet & CD-ROM [2002]

photography by George Gittoes; additional photography, of model Holly Berri, by Alice Wesley-Smith

"Any outsider who sticks his finger in the Afghan pie finds it was a damn sight hotter than he thought and ruins the pie for the Afghans. Persia, Britain, Russia and now the United States have all found their goals unobtainable and the cost of seeking them unsustainable, but the greatest price has always been paid by the poor, bloodied people of Afghanistan." (Griffiths, John C., Afghanistan, A History of Conflict, Timat Publishing, 2001, p263)

Australian artist and photographer George Gittoes went to Afghanistan last year, returning with two and a half thousand photographs. I went through this vast collection and made a selection for this piece. The title comes, obviously, from the home-made wooden merry-go-round that George photographed, but it also reflects what the Afghan people must have thought when facing the latest of many invasions, this one by America and others (including Australia).

My thanks to George, Charisma (who commissioned it, with assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council, and premiered it at the 2002 Darwin International Guitar Festival), Gabriel Dalton, Holly Berri and Alice Wesley-Smith.

M.W-S.

see Martin Wesley-Smith bio

Nigel Westlake:

Onomatopoeia
for bass clarinet & delay [1984]

This is an Australian classic of the bass clarinet repertoire. Nigel Westlake writes: "(this piece) was written following an intensive study of the contemporary bass clarinet repertoire with Dutch exponent Harry Spaarnay; it represents a release from the rigours and discipline that surround much twentieth-century repertoire into a more relaxed improvisational style. A unique sound world is established by remaining for much of the piece in the little used upper register of the instrument and incorporating techniques such as circular breathing, multiphonics, slap tongue and flutter tongue."

Having written many chamber and orchestral works and film scores (e.g. Babe), Nigel Westlake is one of Australia's most active and successful composers. He is also an excellent clarinetist.

Paul Witney:

Scream
for bass clarinet [2000]

a highly virtuosic work for bass clarinet, Scream explores both ends of the instrument's range, delivering at lightning speed; it was first performed in the USA by bass clarinetist Henri Bok at the International Clarinet Festival in Oklahoma

Born in 1973, Australian composer Paul Witney studied with Nigel Butterley. His works have been performed in the Ukraine, Canada, USA, Holland, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

Elliott Carter:

Steep Steps
for bass clarinet [2001]

This is a short work for bass clarinet written as a present for Carter's clarinetist friend Virgil Blackwell. It is the latest in a succession of short solos and duos that he began in the mid 1990s, most of them dedicated to colleagues. The form of the piece is free and doesn't fall into any traditional plan. Throughout, Carter plays with dramatic contrasts in timbre among the bass clarinet's different registers. The title may come from the prominent leaps from register to register.

Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and the first composer to receive the United States National Medal of the arts, Elliott Carter is internationally recognized as one of the leading American voices of the classical music tradition. Encouraged into a musical career by friend and mentor Charles Ives, he is one of the handful of living composers elected to the Classical Music Hall of Fame. At 91 he wrote his first opera! At 94 he is still composing and exploring new fields ...

Jane Brockman:

Tagore Songs (1, 2 & 4)
for clarinet & CD [1997]

1. Reflected ...from a far off world ...and vanished!
2. Swept by the mad cadence of the storm
4. Where roads are made, I lose my way

In India, a young performer learns her/his instrument by studying with a singer - so the music always has a vocal foundation. Tagore Songs emulates this improvisatory spirit, although the piece is in fact fully notated. The movement titles are fragments from writings of Bengali poet, philosopher, mystic, painter, musician Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), whose work holds even more power for Brockman now than it did twenty years ago.

Martin Wesley-Smith:

Tekee Tokee Tomak
for clarinet & CD-Rom [2003]

images from East Timor by various photographers, including Ros Dunlop, Kathryn Morgan, Danny Ross, Alice Wesley-Smith, Martin Wesley-Smith and Peter Wesley-Smith

Tekee Tokee Tomak is my latest (last?) piece about East Timor, and comes directly from my two trips there in 2002. It records and reflects the positive spirit of the East Timorese people, acting as an antidote, perhaps, to the necessarily bleak nature of "Welcome to the Hotel Turismo" and "X" - a celebration of the truth of Xanana's slogan "To resist is to win!".

The music comes from various sources, including snippets from previous pieces of mine and samples of songs written and/or recorded in support of the East Timor cause. The talking head belongs to Sister Susan Connelly, of the Mary MacKillop Institute of East Timorese Studies in Sydney - a champion of justice for all, particularly for East Timorese refugees in Australia that the Australian government wants to send home.

My thanks to many people, including the photographers, The Anin Murak Quartet (Antonietta Magno, Milca Esmeralda Pinheiro, Maria dos Santos and António de Padua Martins Soares), Louise Byrne, Geoffrey Collins, Sister Susan Connelly, Jon Lewis, Midnight Oil, Nicola Quilter, The Solidarity Choir, Tall Poppies Records and Rob Wesley-Smith.

M.W-S.

Martin Wesley-Smith:

Weapons of Mass Distortion
for clarinet & CD-ROM [2003]

photography by George Gittoes and others

These days we are seeing more and more of what in 1946 George Orwell exposed (in "Politics and Language") the deceits and devices of "doublespeak". For example: "collateral damage" really means the maiming and killing of innocent civilians; "removal with extreme prejudice" means assassination; "incontinent ordnance" are bombs which hit schools and hospitals by mistake; "active defense" is invasion; and an "energetic disassembly" is a nuclear explosion. During the Vietnam War, "limited duration protective reaction air strikes" meant bombing Vietnamese villages. In Australia, asylum-seekers, who have committed no offence, are dismissed as "illegals". As Melbourne barrister Julian Burnside points out: "(Language) can hide shocking truth, it can deceive a nation, it can hand electoral victory to the morally bankrupt."

Rumsfeld's word "deconfliction" meant invading Iraq, at the cost of thousands of lives, massive damage, and billions of dollars, to stop it using (apparently nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction and giving them to terrorists to whom it had no links. This piece looks at the abuse of language and the use of doublespeak in undermining the democracy in whose name the Coalition of the Killing invaded Iraq.

see Martin Wesley-Smith bio

Martin Wesley-Smith:

Welcome to the Hotel Turismo
for bass clarinet & CD-ROM [2000]

It is September 1999 in Dili, East Timor. The arrival of the Australian-led INTERFET military coalition has forced the thugs of the Indonesian army and its militias to flee, leaving thousands dead and the entire country in ruins. The Hotel Turismo, though trashed, still stands, its blackened rooms providing shelter for soldiers, journalists and homeless East Timorese - refugees in their own country but free at last.

A Turismo employee, "John" Pereira, who has worked there since before the Indonesian invasion of 1975, reflects on what the hotel has seen during the resultant carnage. When the ruined piano in the foyer mysteriously starts to play by itself, he takes out his metaphysical bass clarinet and joins in ...

This piece was commissioned by Tall Poppies Records, with financial assistance from the Music Fund of the Australia Council. Technical facilities were provided by the Electronic Music Studio of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Originally for the cellist David Pereira (no relation to "John"), I arranged it for bass clarinet last year so that Ros could play it in Timor (our first performance there was in the Hotel Turismo itself!). The graphics came from a variety of sources, including the Internet. I have permission from many copyright owners to use their material; others, however, I have not been able to identify and/or contact. If any of them is aggrieved, s/he should contact me (mwsmith@shoalhaven.net.au). My thanks to them all.

M.W-S.

see Martin Wesley-Smith bio

Martin Wesley-Smith:

X
for clarinet & CD-ROM [2000]

In 1999 the world watched as the Indonesian army and its puppet militia tore tiny East Timor apart. Meanwhile, popular resistance leader Gusmão (the "X" of the title) languished in Cipinang Prison in Jakarta. I composed "X" during those tragic months.

"X" was commissioned by American clarinettist F. Gerard Errante, who premiered it at the Seoul Arts Centre in 1999 as part of the "Sixth Computer Music Festival of Seoul" presented by KEAMS (The Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society). Financial assistance came from the Music Fund of the Australia Council. Technical facilities were provided by the Electronic Music Studio of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. My thanks to all who assisted, especially to the mostly anonymous photographers who, in some cases unwittingly, supplied the images. As with "Welcome to the Hotel Turismo", any aggrieved copyright owner is welcome to discuss the situation with me (mwsmith@shoalhaven.net.au).

A recording of an audio-only version of this piece, played by Ros Dunlop, has recently been released on the CD "X" (Great White Noise GWN003). It will be available for sale at the concert - or it can be ordered from
http://www.greatwhitenoise.net/rosdunlop/html/cdsales.html.

For more information, see http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~mwsmith/x.html.

M.W-S.

see Martin Wesley-Smith bio

Judy Bailey:

You Can Take It Anywhere!
for clarinet & delay [2000]

This was written for American clarinettist Gerard Errante on one of his visits to Australia. Judy writes: "In this work, the juxtaposition of intervals creates a whole world of harmony for solo instrument. A lot of careful work went into the actual pitch of the notes which followed one another - 'careful' for reasons of ease to facilitate a linear harmonic structure. The performer uses this to be free with the way s/he takes it."

Born in New Zealand, now living in Australia, Judy Bailey is a renowned jazz pianist, composer, arranger and music educator. She performs throughout Australia and New Zealand, and has taken part in many jazz festivals and composing women's festivals. She has recorded two CDs for the ABC, toured Australasia for Musica Viva, and has received numerous prizes, including a "MO" award for Female Jazz Performer and an APRA Award for Jazz Composition.

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from Dunlop and Wesley-Smith's concert tour of East Timor, March 2002:

Rob Wesley-Smith
with kids in Gleno [72K] audience in Ermera [58K]
the above three photographs
© 2002 Martin Wesley-Smith
Timorese young people
near Hato Bullico [128K]

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index to notes on composers	&	pieces
BLANK LINE
Elena Kats-Chernin		25 Measures
Margery Smith/Will Frasier		Aurora
Steve Ingham		Bastard's Broth
Jane Brockman		Circles in the Sun
Richard Vella		Cut to the Chase
Eric Mandat		Etude for Barney
Graham Hair		Frenzy and Folly, Fire and Joy
John Rimmer		Hauturu
Barney Childs		Instant Winners
Michael Lowenstern		King Friday
Martin Wesley-Smith		Merry-Go-Round
Nigel Westlake		Onomatopoeia
Paul Witney		Scream
Elliott Carter		Steep Steps
Jane Brockman		Tagore Songs
Martin Wesley-Smith		Tekee Tokee Tomak
Martin Wesley-Smith		Weapons of Mass Distortion
Martin Wesley-Smith		Welcome to the Hotel Turismo
Martin Wesley-Smith		X
Judy Bailey		You Can Take it Anywhere!


Rob Wesley-Smith with kids in Gleno [72K]	audience in Ermera [58K] the above three photographs © 2002 Martin Wesley-Smith	Timorese young people near Hato Bullico [128K]