Unto These Yellow Sands

for chamber orchestra (0,2,0,0/2,0,0,0/8,6,4,4,2)
composed 2000; duration 11 minutes
world premiere Hobart, Australia july 14 2000
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn – conductor

From clouds of filigree emerge long, waving gestures, which gradually descend towards a gravitational line. Upon finally touching down they transform into splinters of rhythm and pulse, and a process of solidification begins. On this restless backdrop a melody begins to take shape. Then gesture and energy – in their forms of melody and rhythm – engage in a strugling interplay of layered colour and directional push, which propels the piece into its concluding section.

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