Time, Rupture and Memory is a radiophonic piece I made in 2007. I asked a series of sound designers and composers what they thought about Musique Concrète. Musique Concrète is music made from recorded sounds, and it arose once sound could be recorded on things like turntables and magnetic tape. The techniques of Musique Concrète underlie most contemporary audio production, and I was interested in how similar they seemed to the techniques of film sound design. Time, Rupture and Memory is a composition made from...
Here's three cues written for a production of Don Nigro's 'Scarecrow' in the Victorian College of the Arts Directors' Series.They're all pretty similar. 'Scarecrow' depicts an isolated family going through a series of events which might be repeating endlessly, as though under the influence of a curse. I wanted to use the same sequence of notes over and over, like in the classic horror films of the 1980s, where the endless repetition of the theme reinforces the sense of hopelessness and inevitability. Each cue is...
Here's three cues from I Must Not Theatre's 2010 production 'iexist', a dance/theatre piece created for the 2010 Adelaide Fringe Festival. All were written in the rehearsal room while the director...