Login

Enter your username and password

Forgotten your username or password?

Your Shopping Cart

There are no items in your shopping cart.

  • Home
  • Score & Part: Blue gold
Blue gold

Sheet Music: Score & Part(s)

Blue gold / Ros Bandt

by Ros Bandt (2005)

  • Sales Availability: This item is not commercially available from the Australian Music Centre. We regret that we cannot offer it for sale.
  • Library Availability: Q 785/BAN 2 — Reference (not for loan) copy only
  • Instrumentation: Clarinets, cello, electroacoustic soundscape mix, glass and metal sculptures, digital video. May also be played on recorders and viola da gamba.

  • Digital Library -- View full score online*

    — Members:
    — Not a member? Become a member online and access the Digital Library immediately

    * This item is not yet in the Digital Library. Members can make an online request which will be reviewed in 2 business days

  • Audio Sample

    Performance by Louise King, Richard Haynes, Ros Bandt from the CD Blue gold

Non-Commercial

This item is not commercially available from the Australian Music Centre. We regret that we cannot offer it for sale.

Product details

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score 2p. -- B4 (landscape)) and 2 parts (31p. -- B4 (landscape))

Difficulty: Advanced — Professional

Duration: 33 mins

Contents note:

In four movements, divided into the following sections: Water: the blue gold -- Lake Eyre, wind harps in the desert -- Elegy for eroded land after grazing -- Bush rain, call for water -- Ecstatic rain dance -- Plundering the rain forest -- Loggers and water barons -- Salination: cacti and prickly pear -- From the irrigation channel -- Spirit level: water balance.

Dedication note: Dedicated to Maude Barlow

Commissioned by Charisma with funds provided by Australia Council.

First performance by Charisma — 2007. Premiered and toured throughout Australia

Includes: graphic score, performance parts for the six notated sections, DVD of full 33-minute version, DVD of shorter 13-minute version.

Includes performance note.

Includes improvised and notated sections. Includes graphic notation.

Multimedia work which takes its title from Maude Barlow's book of the same name referencing water as the new industrial economy.

Re-mixed as a radiophonic work in Melbourne 2006.

Versions (performance options): 1. 33 min. with DVD sculptures and live performance for wind and string (2005). 2. Short 10 min. DVD with live performance, tracks 3, 5, 10 (2007). 3. Radiophonic audio 33 min. (2006). 4. Film and soundscape audiovisual DVD, 33 min. (2005).

This is a handwritten edition — it is not typeset.

Related products

This work is also available in the following products:

Blue gold
CD: Blue gold : sound works for sustainable water care / Ros Bandt, Leah Barclay.

Blue gold
CD: Blue gold / Ros Bandt

 

- Browse other works for Electroacoustic music

- Browse other works by Ros Bandt

Analysis & Media

- Resonate Article: New album from Ros Bandt and Leah Barclay

User reviews

Be the first to share your thoughts, opinions and insights about this item.

To post a comment please login