Performance Lab (Composition) Third Year
The acquisition of highly developed collaborative and presentation skills is increasingly important in contemporary music making and thus relevant for the pre-professional training of all students in all majors of the BMus program. MUSC3705 Performance Laboratory C is the third, and final, Performance Laboratory course for students enrolled in the Musicology and Sonic Arts majors of the Bachelor of Music program. This course builds on the technical and creative foundations developed in earlier Performance Laboratory courses, and the awareness of a range of musical genres and practices encountered in other courses in the music program. Students learn to apply critical listening and readings of performance literature, and gain skills and experience in the development and curatorship of innovative group performances.
From UNSW Student Handbook: https://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/2022/MUSC3705
The Dream | Solo Piano/Voice & 4 Part String Ensemble
You can view the Program Notes and Score here:
The Moon is Beautiful Tonight | For 2 Violins, Cello, Acoustic Guitar and Piano
You can view the Program Notes and Score here:
Museum of the Ocean | Collaborative Composition
Museum of the Ocean is a 4-work composition written by myself and my colleague, Tianyang Liao.
We were tasked to create a project based around an idea, and collaborate where we needed.
Yang had a great idea to create a suite of works that resembled our oceans.
We brainstormed some more collaborative ideas together - we ended up on a sonic picture of parts of our ocean in the distant future after our oceans/planet is just a part of folklore.
Our works are alternating, where he composed the ‘museum/folklore’ versions of the ocean, where I composed what would more be the reality of them.
So, Composition 2. & 4., are written by me. Watch the video of our composed works below, performed by my friend and Solo Violinist, Nicholas Drozdowski.
