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The Elena interview : Robert Davidson interviews composer Elena Kats-Chernin
No full textTwo Australian composers, Elena Kats-Chernin and Robert Davidson, discuss techniques and concepts in a number of prominent works
My musical journey: Robert Davidson
No full textIn an extended interview, Robert Davidson talks to Gary Thorpe about his development as a composer and performer, detailing his earliest musical experiences, his taking up the profession of bassist, his compositional exploration, and the career of Topology
Mountain Track
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Virginia Taylor and Timothy Kain – recital for Flute and Guitar, including newly commissioned work by Australian composer Robert Davidson. Performed in Brisbane and Wollongong
Research Background:
This project realised the collaboration of flautist Virginia Taylor and guitarist Timothy Kain, who worked together with Australian composer Robert Davidson. The 3-movement work was performed in 2 Australian cities, Brisbane and Wollongong. The new work adds to the Australian repertoire for this popular duo combination. The project was funded by Virginia Taylor and Timothy Kain. The score and parts are now available as a published work from the Australia Music Centre. https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/work/davidson-robert-mountain-track
Research Contribution:
This contribution to Australian music for flute and guitar is significant. Taylor and Kain have a long history of commissioning Australian composers. This project forms a part of ongoing research to expand repertoire by Australian composers. The live performances were hosted by Wollongong Conservatorium and Guitar Brisbane. Challenges faced were the distances between two cities while working and collaborating with the composer to produce this work, combined with the need to understand how both instruments can integrate, yet be reflected as solo instruments within the ensemble. A close research working and relationship with the composer was integral to its success.
Research Significance:
A world premiere and published work (AMC) are the outcome of this research. Further performances have taken place in 2020. Taylor and Kain currently have 4 CDs published under labels Tall Poppies, ABC and Move. As Australia’s leading flute and guitar, their work is regularly heard on ABC Classic radio. This new repertoire will become one of the works to be recorded on a CD planned for 2021, which will increase its dissemination.No Full Tex
Sound and Fury
No full textWe all make music whenever we speak. This article looks at how this influences a major composition by Robert Davidson, Jonathan Dimond and Jamie Clark - Airwaves: 100 Year of Radio, composed to commemorate 100 years since Marconi's first transatlantic broadcast
Robert Davidson: Trio (III) (1993)
No full text"My Trio was composed shortly after returning from seven months of travel, focusing on musical study in South India and spending time in Europe and the USA. Perhaps as a result of the stimulus of this period, I found myself approaching the composition with a sense of openness, changing from my usual concern for the unity which results from reduced material. While the amount of material is reduced, it stems from a wide range of sources, which are playfully combined. Hymns from my Methodist upbringing, Bach counterpoint, Sibelius harmony, Beatle tunes, rhythms of Kerala and countless other musics went into forming, in varying degrees, my musical intuition as it was in 1993.1 attempted to allow this intuition full rein, believing that music is most successful when it accurately reflects its composer and his or her background. Rational structures serve to organise the intuitive material of the three movements. The first and third movements are simple ground bass canons. I am attracted to this form by its neat combination of repetition and variation, simultaneously defying and satisfying expectations, and by the way the instruments copy each other and reach beyond their individual concerns. In the second movement a process of ever diminishing time intervals articulates a handful of stretched out chords, which accompany free pattern-melodies, swapped between the instruments in conversational fashion. Surrounding the first and second movements, and in the postlude, is music of quiet simplicity. Here there is less concern for rational structure than for communication of emotion, though not without a certain distance." -- Robert Davidso
Robert Davidson : An Exhibition of Northwest Coast Native Art
No full textDavidson emphasizes the significance of both cultural and aesthetic values for his sculpture, paintings and print works. Biographical notes
Election podcast #3 with special guest Jenni Davidson [Podcast] EP46
No full textOur third election podcast looks at some of the key policy issues that have arisen in the campaign this week – the social security system and how it supports disabled children and pensioners, the economy and an action plan for growth, and employability support. We’re also joined by Jenni Davidson from Holyrood Magazine for her thoughts on the campaign so far. Timestamps 00:32 Disability and carer benefits for children and pensioners 02:55 The economy and growth 08:53 Jenni Davidson, Holyrood Magazine 19:33 Employability support 24:57 Looking to the week ahea
Ontology
No full textOntology consists of two interlocking works: Nature/Nurture by Robert Davidson and 19… by Richard Vella. Using music, these two works examine various aspects of identity.\ud
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Nature/Nurture draws attention to how culture and ideas are made and their role in defining who we are. Robert Davidson will perform a new 45-minute work based on speech recordings supplied by ABC archives. Included are voice recordings of Margaret Mead, Steven Pinker, David Williamson, Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky, Helena Cronin, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson and many others. \ud
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In 19… Richard Vella focuses on songs as they change over generations and a song’s relationship to our bodies and identity
Robert Davidson Convocation night, 1998.
No full textFolder: "Robert Davidson Convocation night, Honorary Doctorate of letters Recipient, 1998 ; series 22 + 01 ; Fujicolor crystal archive paper (fancy script).
Robert Davidson Convocation night, 1998.
No full textFolder: "Robert Davidson Convocation night, Honorary Doctorate of letters Recipient, 1998 ; series 22 + 01 ; Fujicolor crystal archive paper (fancy script).
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