gordonkerry

@gordonkerry@mastodon.world

Composer/writer living in rural northeastern Victoria, Australia.
https://gordonkerry.wordpress.com/

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gordonkerry, to random

Another bushfire

gordonkerry, to composers

This is exciting - one the Flinders Quartet's premiere performances of my Sixth String Quartet filmed on 25 March at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

@composers

https://vimeo.com/931933348?share=copy

gordonkerry, to random

Something tells me it’s time for a walk.

Meaningful look from Nell the rattie.

gordonkerry, to composers

Happy #Easter to those who celebrate. It being #GoodFriday tomorrow, I'm reposting this terrific performance of my Seven Last Words, with the Australian Chamber Choir conducted by Douglas Lawrence, AM.

#HolyWeek @composers #choral music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTCTqd6j1rw

gordonkerry, to poetry

Sydney folks - pleased to be the bill for Halcyon's next concert on 13 April in Chippendale. Program incudes my setting of three poems by David #Malouf
@composers #poetry #chambermusic #singing

https://halcyonartmusic.com.au/events/night-tides

gordonkerry, to classicalmusic

Morning

If you're in Melbourne Docklands tomorrow (12/03) Flinders Quartet is giving an open rehearsal of works by Mozart, me and Ethel Smyth, working on my new between 1 (not 2 as advised)-3pm.
@composers

Details here:

https://whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au/things-to-do/flinders-quartet-open-rehearsal

gordonkerry, to random

@perkinsy Hi Just an update about tomorrow's rehearsal - they' ll start on my piece at about 1pm if you're still interested.

gordonkerry, to classicalmusic

Nice appreciation of from Australian scholar Aidan McGartland. @composers

https://theconversation.com/from-concert-halls-to-movie-soundtracks-arnold-schoenbergs-legacy-as-a-classical-composer-still-resounds-224469

gordonkerry, to melbourne

Wonderful rehearsal with Flinders Quartet this week so looking forward to the performances of my Sixth #StringQuartet later in March. @composers
#ChamberMusic
Before then there's an open rehearsal at Dockland Library if you're in #Melbourne on 12 April and need some post-Moomba excitement. I'm on around 2pm.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1909133506207638

gordonkerry, to random

Spencer St - aka Southern Cross - station, architecturally designed to trap noise and diesel fumes, and render any announcement togdcgh gtffgv jgfhb

gordonkerry,

@perkinsy @gordonkerry I’ve an event at Docklands Library in a couple of weeks - I believe it’s a lovely spot.

gordonkerry,

@perkinsy @gordonkerry It’s an open rehearsal with Flinders Quartet from 2pm, so yes, public and free!

gordonkerry,

@perkinsy @gordonkerry i think it’s here https://m.facebook.com/events/1909133506207638/ I’m ‘on’ at 2.

upmultimedia, to spiders
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A beautiful St Andrews Cross spider has set up home by the front door, feeling blessed. They eat bugs (and other spiders) and in turn get eaten by the birds

gordonkerry,

@upmultimedia beautiful shot. She looks like Jupiter with legs.

gordonkerry, to classicalmusic

I may mention this once or twice more over the next weeks, but if you're in the Melbourne, Victoria area between 21 and 25 March do come along and hear my new with the wonderful Flinders Quartet. @classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

https://www.flindersquartet.com/2024-program-1

gordonkerry, to parrots

Crimson rosella

Masticating
Looking smug. Lovely crimson plumage trimmed with blue wings.

gordonkerry, to random

and a mudlark, swamp hen and solar panel.

swamp hen with red forehead and beak, and black plumage
solar panel in the pond

gordonkerry, to random

Egret lunching.

gordonkerry, to composer

Australian David Lumsdaine has died @composers
https://limelight-arts.com.au/news/the-australian-composer-david-lumsdaine-has-died/

gordonkerry,

WOnderful example of his work @composers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6zV0jNZnY&list=OLAK5uy_mz5yQ7s5gjc07Lu7OBY4mthvct8nua9AA&index=4

gordonkerry, to random

Yellow-tailed black eating pinecones from Pinus pinea. Lucky they haven't discovered the olives or basil.

Right profile
Two yellowtails feasting on pinecones
single yellowtail

mcmullin, to composer
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I'm working on a large-scale for and with soloists.

What should I listen to for inspiration?

Any time period, any style -- I'm interested in seeing different ways of combining these forces, and studying the nuts and bolts of .

If you're a , director, or who has wrestled with this, what would you say are the key do's and don'ts of writing for this combination?

@composers @classicalmusic

gordonkerry,

@mcmullin @xangoh @davbucci @composers @classicalmusic There's a temptation to end up with a kind of galloping recitative which means one can't dwell on single words/vowels/moments and is quite tiring to listen to and to sing. I have just been working on the Hostias section of the requiem and that's pretty talky, so I used the 'hostias...offerimus' lines as a fast moving ostinato in two-part canon, with the 'tu suscipe' and 'fac eas' lines in more slow moving parts under and above the ostinato.

gordonkerry,

@mcmullin @xangoh @davbucci @composers @classicalmusic Which is a way of sayting that in some circumstances you can present simultaneous cogent information at different speeds, as Mozart does in ensembles in the operas.

gordonkerry,

@mcmullin @xangoh @davbucci @composers @classicalmusic Sounds legit - after all the rosary is about meditation rather than linear cognition, if I might put it that way.

gordonkerry,

@mcmullin @xangoh @davbucci @composers @classicalmusic FWIW this is my setting of the Seven Last words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTCTqd6j1rw

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