Abstract
The music for Not Fading Resonance came out of my friendship with Australian pianist Michael Kieran Harvey as a reflection back on his turning sixty, about the same time I did. The idea was to create a type of 'not fading' resonance against the tide of time and its eddies. It was to create an artistic space of life ripples inspired by meditative Japanese Gagaku harmonic resonances of stillness that gradually emerge as colouristic spectral space teeming with organically evolved ideas that sit about a rich slow centre, before returning to meditative stillness that doesn't disappear but resonates into stretched time-space acoustics. One sound that resonates in the heart in silence after the storm. Musically, the piece is a series of organically related and accruing fragments that move from stillness to flowing energies and back. The motif fragments in their growing intensities includes: distilled long resonances, distilled resonances with voice-led and stabbing sonorities, Gagaku-inspired sonorities, flourishing movements (from stillness), and bluesy interceptions. The musical movement of energy in the piece is a metaphor of life as an accruing richness of experience, which even in the quietness of acoustic space and heart resonates not fades.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Grosvenor Place, N.S.W. |
| Publisher | Australian Music Centre |
| Size | 1 music score, 10 pages |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |