Sound Lounge for Tuesday 28 January 2014

7:00 Three Cheers for Australia Day

RAK: Uluru & Didgeridoo
Stepan Rak (gtr)
Monitor 660 352

FORD: The Laughter of Mermaids
The Song Company
Vox Australis VAST 016

BANKS: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra
Yfrah Neaman (vln), Royal Phil/Norman Del Mar
Lyrita SRCD 276

8:00 Don Banks

was a Melbourne-born musician who forged a successful career in London composing for the concert platform as well as film and television before returning home to educate young local composers and promote their music (written by Duncan Yardley, for ABC Classic FM)

(Photo courtesy of the Australian Music Centre)

8:55 Mike Nock

has been awarded the 2014 Don Banks Award by the Australia Council for the Arts

NOCK/PIKE: Kindred
Mike Nock (pno), Laurenz Pike (drums)
FWM 936 088

(Photo courtesy of SOUNZ, the Centre for New Zealand Music)

9:50 Music from around the Pacific Rim

from Jack Body’s Asia Pacific Festival 2007, Atoll ACD 113

YANG XIAO-ZHONG: Wedding Night
Monique Hay (fl), Minsi Yang (vln), Nick Hancox (vla)

NUNNS/HORO/WEBSTER: Improvisation
Richard Nunns, Horomona Horo, James Webster (taonga puoro)

KOICHI MAKIGAMI: Vocal improvisation
Koichi Makigami

LARDELLI: Sent into Silence
Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea

TRAD: Kangding Love Song
Plan 9

HARRIS: Senryu
NZ Trio

MAO MIN-CHUNG: Yu Ko
Huang Mei (guqin)

LIN MEI-FANG: Disintegration
Ayako Inada (pno)

YAMAMOTO: Ultro Citroque
NZ Trio

TOMLINSON: Bicycle Groove
Clocked Out

KURAUCHI: Resurrection
STRIKE Percussion Ensemble

11:00 New Music Dreams

From David Long’s score for the film Beyond the Edge

LONG: Beyond the Edge
David Long (vla campara, Quattro, feedback, bowed banjo, Balalaika, perc), Riki Gooch (perc), Natalia Mann (harp), Richard Nunns (taonga puoro), musicians from the NZSO
Independent Artists IA 1002 2013