Sheet Music: Score
Currawong Call : for solo instrument and electronics / Felicity Wilcox.
by Felicity Wilcox (2021)
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- Instrumentation: Any solo instrument.
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This is a piece for solo instrument and tape, composed for cellist Freya Schack-Arnott to perform at 100clicks West Fireside concert season in 2021. In 2022 it was selected by Backstage Music for performance by violinist Veronique Serret in 'Earthbound' - which the video below documents.
Wilcox generated an index of symbols while listening to the currawongs in her Blue Mountains backyard, assembling these into a graphic score. The symbols each represent a variation in the rich lexicon of currawong calls, which the performer is asked to interpret while responding to a recording of currawongs Wilcox made from her garden. The video is a slowed-down loop of a live photo she took at her fire-pit, where the score was also created.
This piece is not so much about 'doing' as listening. It asks us to come off our elevated human perches down to tree-level, and become one with the birds.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (5p. -- A4 (landscape))
Duration: 6 mins
This piece can be played by any solo instrument with portamento capabilities, or extended to duos/trios of same instruments and/or voices. This work can be performed with a video, available for download here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/34r26kuk1p88wwlayjqvl/AAOxruveHPAGAsKkRS7Mit0/Currawong%20Call/Wilcox%20Currawong%20Call%20full%20res.mov?rlkey=evikb0q8rxinpeaiuytg47umy&st=fdb0fbp7&dl=0
Graphic notation edition
ISMN: 979-0-67317-428-3
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