Resonate Magazine | Australian Music Centre

Uncovered Ground

by Felicity Wilcox

With the release of Uncovered Ground (Move Records 2021), an album consisting entirely of her own chamber works, Felicity Wilcox shares some insights and explains why this was a good time to record a portrait album.

De Rerum Natura and Five Pali Songs: engaging with ancient texts

by Peter McNamara and Brad Gill

In this article composers and collaborators Peter McNamara and Brad Gill talk about engaging with ancient texts in two works, McNamara's De Rerum Natura and Gill's Five Pali Songs.

‘Wata’: Blown Together by the Wind

by Sam Curkpatrick

Sam Curkpatrick summarises some of the ideas and narratives behind one of this year's major Australian music events, 'Wata'. The project, premiered in Melbourne earlier in 2021, was led by pianist and composer Paul Grabowsky and brought together songmen, improvisers and a symphony orchestra in a new kind of large-scale, collaborative work.

Insight: Heretic

by Me-Lee Hay

'I'm always drawn to sounds that are simultaneously beautiful yet dangerous and dark, and Conrad's story echoed these nuances', writes film composer Me-Lee Hay about her debut album soundtrack release for the biopic Heretic.

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The Cooktown Cantata

by Louise Denson and Janice Black

Louise Denson and Jan Black write about their large-scale work Cooktown Cantata to be premiered in Brisbane on 12 June 2021, with more performances to follow at Nature’s Powerhouse, Cooktown on 17-19 June 2021 during the Cooktown Discovery Festival.

The Crossing of a Sea - composing before and during COVID-19

by Cyrus Meurant

Cyrus Meurant writes about his recent work, including the song cycle Stray Birds, setting selections from the poem by the Bengali Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, and a brand-new work The Crossing of a Sea, scheduled to premiere at the Melbourne Recital Centre on 7 September in a program by the Syzygy Ensemble.