Program Notes
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Out of Time
“Out of Time” is a setting of Kenneth Slessor work of the same title. The poem flickers through visions of the passing of time or the passage of time – I cannot decide which. The opening guitar chords were the creative germ for this piece. I found them experimenting on an accordion (of all things!) during a summer holiday in my family home in Canberra. In love with the verse of Australian poet Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971), I combed my copy of his selected poems for one that resonated with those chords: “I saw time flowing like the thousand yachts”. The six musicians in this work either emphasise or converse with the spoken voice as it traverses the three sections of this poem. Only between sections of poetry do the instruments experience a real togetherness in interludes of repeating, driving melody. The text of this work is used with permission of Harper Collins Publishers.
In Time as One
A ticking clock.
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