Melbourne Composers League—Too Jazzy: New Music from Australia, Thailand, and the Philippines
Bruce Crossman’s Fragrant Rain Clouds of Love (piano, percussion) performed by Michael Kieran Harvey (pn) and Peter Neville (perc) at the Melbourne Composers League concert, Too Jazzy: New Music from Australia, Thailand and the Philippines at the Church of All Nations, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia on 11 February 2023
Michael Kieran Harvey and Peter Neville at the Church of All Nations, Melbourne performing Bruce Crossman’s Fragrant Rain Clouds of Love, 11 February 2023 (photos: Andrián Pertout, Antonio Tenace)
3MBS Fine Music Melbourne 103.5FM, Contemporary Visions radio programme
Bruce Crossman’s Fragrant Rain Clouds of Love (Michael Kieran Harvey, pn, Timothy Phillips, perc) from Heaven to Earth Border House album released on Navona Records, USA, featured on Tony Thomas’s Contemporary Visions, 3MBS Fine Music Melbourne 103.5FM radio, Melbourne, 21 March 2023, Australia.
Third International Symposium of Contemporary Music, Taiwan
Bruce Crossman’s paper presentation “A Korean-Australian Aesthetic within Breathing Materiality of Spirit and Being,” Third International Symposium of Contemporary Music: Contemporary Music, Present and Future, Nanhua University, Department of Ethnomusicology, Taiwan, online 08:50-19.30, 27 May 2023. The paper was accepted as a chapter in George Holloway (ed. et al.), Crossing into Distance: Contemporary Composers on the Present and Future of Art Music, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (in-press) 2024.
Figure 1: Respondents: Dr George Holloway (convenor), Dr Koji Nakano (chair) (photos: George Holloway video)
Research Creation Showcase 2023—Lightening Talk, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Bruce Crossman discussed his Korean-Australian aesthetics and his new work Hoheub: Every Last Breath for Hyelim Kim (taegŭm) and James Larter (percussion) in “Breathing Materiality of Spirit and Being,” Lightening Talk, Research Creation Showcase 2023, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 17 November 2023.
Recording of Hoheub & Winnowing Light: Korean-Australian short film collaboration
Bruce Crossman’s Hoheub: Every Last Breath (taegŭm, percussion), with Kate Fagan’s poem “Bower,” as part of Open Spaces, was recorded by Hyelim Kim (taegŭm) and James Larter (percussion), and Øyvind Aamli at Studio Polaris, London, United Kingdom on 21st November with mastering by Ian Stevenson, WSU Recording Studio, Sydney, Australia on 28th November 2023. The recording is in collaboration with Western Sydney filmmaker Vincent Tay, working with his team Chris Mallas and Billy Moar, towards a short film, Hoheub.
Hyelim Kim (taegŭm) and James Larter (percussion); Studio Polaris, London, United Kingdom recording Bruce Crossman and Kate Fagan’s Hoheub: Every Last Breath (photos: Øyvind Aamli)
The project also includes composer Clare Maclean working with Kate Fagan and Stevenson on Winnowing Light (marimba, clarinet), with percussionist Claire Edwardes and clarinettist James Noble of Ensemble Offspring. The creativity is all part of a multidisciplinary research project, Open Spaces for Poetic-Visual Music and Korean-Australian Creativity, funded by the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and Graduate Research Office at Western Sydney University.
Vincent Tay (DOP), Chris Mallas & Billy Moar (cameras), & Claire Edwardes (marimba); Kate Fagan (poet) with Ian Stevenson (sound designer), Tay, Mallas & Moar; Clare Maclean (composer) & James Noble (clarinet); 28th November 2023 (photos: Bruce Crossman)
Work-in progress showing: Hoheub & Winnowing Light, Western Sydney University
Heaven & Earth: two films Hoheub: Every Last Breath and Winnowing Light by Vincent Tay (photos: Vincent Tay).
Work-in progress showing of excerpts of two films Hoheub: Every Last Breath (Crossman/Fagan) and Winnowing Light (Maclean/Fagan) by Vincent Tay at End of Year School Meeting, School of Humanities & Communication Arts, Parramatta South Campus, Western Sydney University, Australia, 13 December 2023.
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