Living Colours: Pacific Sounds & Spirit Lotte Latukefu, James Cuddeford, Claire Edwardes, Michael Kieran Harvey, Peter Neville, Tristram Williams; Navona Records NV6095, 2017; Double Resonances, Not Broken Bruised-Reed, Gentleness-Suddenness, Where Are the Sounds of Joy?
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Reviews
“Crossman allows the music of the Pacific, specifically of Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Filipino traditions, to influence his more or less high modern attention to sound color and sound space…something spaciously Asian but with an effectively communicative vocabulary of Western new music…Crossman is a real force for the present-future.”
(Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review, USA, May 18, 2017)
“The wealth of musical activity in Pacific rim countries is clearly a source of inspiration to Crossman, adding a fascinating dimension to music from a European heritage. His discerning blend of East and West creates an intriguing, kaleidoscopic sonic world, one that carries a strong emotional impact… Gentleness-Suddenness is described by Crossman as a “meditation on love and creativity”, settings of texts from Chinese opera tradition of Kunqu (The Peony Pavilion) and Judeo-Christian Biblical texts from Genesis, Psalms, Song of Songs and Revelation. Given those inspirational sources, it is not surprising that this piece is a tour-de-force.”
(The Music Trust, Australia, July 3, 2017)
Gentleness-Suddenness (DVD) Lotte Latukefu (mezzo-soprano), James Cuddeford (violin), Claire Edwardes (percussion), Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Ian Stevenson (sound diffusion), David Cubby (photographs), Simon Killalea (live-projection/pixel slicing of photographs), Matt Dewey and Andrew Dixon (sound recording), Iqbal Barkat (director) and Vincent Tay (cinematography); Filigree Films: ISBN: 978-0-646-93017-6, 2014; Gentleness-Suddenness;Distribution: Australian Music Centre
Double Resonances Lotte Latukafu, Merlinda Bobis, Ian Munro, Jim Franklin, New Asia String Quartet, Jeanell Carrigan, Tom McGrath, Bernadette Balkus, Claire Edwardes Wirripang: Wirr017, 2008; Daragang Magayon Cantata, In Gentleness and Suddenness, Fierce Tranquillity, Back to the Centre, After-Resonance Blues, Double Resonances
Resophonica
Michael Atherton and Bruce Crossman; Wirripang, Wirr026, 2009;
Bunyip Blues, Resophonica, tik tik, Water Dragon (palimpsest), Snajo for Jylee Pentaphonica, Off-the Rail Blue
Shadows and Silhouettes Antonietta Loffredo; Wirripang, Wirr 047, 2012; Qi Colour from Hidden Resonances
Creative Explosion
Claire Edwards, James Cuddeford, Zubin Kanga (Offspring Ensemble); Wirripang, Wirr, 2009; Not Broken Bruised-Reed
Music of the Spirit
Claire Edwardes and Bernadette Balkus; Wirripang, Wirr011, 2008; Double Resonances
Jo-Wha (Oneness)
Ian Munro, Lotte Latukefu, Merlinda Bobis; Wirripang, Wirr004, 2006;
Daragang Magayon Cantata
Hammered: Australian Post-1970 Solo Piano
Jeanell Carrigan; Vox Australis, VAST027-2, 2000; …Back to the Centre
The Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music, Volume 1: A Violin and Piano Recital
Mark Menzies and Dan Poynton; Waiteata,1999
