To Invoke the Morning. A shaman with a bamboo flute (shakuhachi) ceremoniously breathes light and life into the void of night in a solo which loosely parodies the sacred meditational music (hokyoku) performed by Zen monks in their quest for enlightenment. 

Aria: Flame of the Sun. Inward contemplation gradually yields to riotous morning birdsong from the didjeridu, out of which emerges a soprano voice with harp accompaniment. The ecstatic text, sung in Latin, is by the 12th century Rhineland mystic Hildegard von Bingen.

Bird and Flower Chants is divided into two parts: 

i. The Joy of Being. A playful, ritualized chanting of the Aboriginal names of some Australian birds of the parrot and cockatoo families: akala, jeriang, gagadju, moolangora, moori etc. The words quickly become fragmentised into phonetic units which are coalesced, a technique I’ve applied in much of my music for the voice where ethos prevails at the expense of discernible meaning. 

Bird and Flower Chants is divided into two parts: 

i. The Joy of Being. A playful, ritualized chanting of the Aboriginal names of some Australian birds of the parrot and cockatoo families: akala, jeriang, gagadju, moolangora, moori etc. The words quickly become fragmentised into phonetic units which are coalesced, a technique I’ve applied in much of my music for the voice where ethos prevails at the expense of discernible meaning. 

Orison. A ruminative, sometimes unquiet cello yearns for a sublime realm beyond the fragmented temporal world.

Cello Solo

Orison. A ruminative, sometimes unquiet cello yearns for a sublime realm beyond the fragmented temporal world.

Cello Solo

Orison. A ruminative, sometimes unquiet cello yearns for a sublime realm beyond the fragmented temporal world.

Cello Solo

Canticle of the Earth. A celebration of the universal dance of life acknowledging Avalokiteshvara, A Buddhist Deity, who is known as the embodiment of compassion.

Canticle of the Earth. A celebration of the universal dance of life acknowledging Avalokiteshvara, A Buddhist Deity, who is known as the embodiment of compassion.

Canticle of the Earth. A celebration of the universal dance of life acknowledging Avalokiteshvara, A Buddhist Deity, who is known as the embodiment of compassion.