julian day list of works 2015
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JULIAN DAY SELECTED WORKS 2014 Four Lost Endings (in progress) Amplified string quartet and playback 35’ Commissioned by Third Angle, Portland OR Dark Twin (in progress) Piano and playback 20’ Commissioned by Zubin Kanga through the Australia Council for the Arts Untitled (in progress) Electric guitar quartet 60’ Commissioned by Ampere Electric Guitar Quartet, Sydney Little Room (in progress) Piano and video 15’ Commissioned by Lisa Moore Game Pieces (in progress) Mixed ensemble 25’ For Ensemble Offspring, Sydney Hammer Action (in progress) Eleven pianos 60’ For Royal Academy of Music, London Sonic Social Massed voices 60’ Commissioned by Performance Space and Museum of Contemporary Art Drink To That Wine glasses and straws 5’ For Synergy Percussion, Sydney Shudder Space Massed percussion 30’ Commissioned by Aurora Festival of Living Music, Sydney
2013 Together We Breathe 100 brass 45’ Commissioned by Capsule and Library of Birmingham Pivotal (from me to you and back again) Voices (multi-‐channel video and performance) 20’ Commissioned by Object Gallery and Casula Powerhouse DISCO DEMOLITION NIGHT (what you do to me) Vibraphone, four players 10’ For Synergy Percussion, Sydney Quartz Amplified string quartet and playback 8’ Commissioned by Third Angle, Portland OR Daddy Daddy Sextet (clarinet, piano, percussion, electric guitar, cello, double bass) 10’ For Wild Rumpus, San Francisco 2012 Slow Wave (with Luke Jaaniste and Janet McKay) 55 handbells 50’ Monochrome 4 flutes, 4 horns, 4 electric guitars, 4 synthesizers 60’ Premiered The Horse Hospital, London Super Critical Mass: Voices (with Luke Jaaniste) 45 spatialized voices 45’ Commissioned by FutureEverything Festival, premiered Manchester Cathedral, UK Super Critical Mass: Aura (with Luke Jaaniste) 25 spatialized voices 25’ Commissioned by Aurora Festival, premiered Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney Super Critical Mass: Halo (with Luke Jaaniste) 12 spatialized saxophones 6’ Commissioned APRA/AMC Classical Music Awards, premiered Sydney Opera House
Husk Electric guitar, plastic fork, metal rod 12’ Premiered by Zane Banks, Aurora Festival, Sydney 2011 Big Space 2 identical synthesizers 25’ Premiered by An Infinity Room (AIR), Whitechapel Gallery, London Tensile CD player 10’ Commissioned by Chronology Arts, Sydney Super Critical Mass: Vaporisation (with Luke Jaaniste and Janet McKay) 30 spatialized saxophones 45’ Commissioned by Queensland Music Festival, premiered Old Museum Brisbane Super Critical Mass: SWELTER (with Luke Jaaniste and Janet McKay) 30 spatialized brass 30’ Commissioned by MATA Festival & Make Music NY, premiered by TILT Brass, The Lake, Central Park, NYC 2010 Womb Orchestra 13’ Little Ones 2 identical synthesizers 10’ Premiered by An Infinity Room (AIR), Sydney Conservatorium of Music Wire 12 spatialized cellos 16’ Premiered by Geoffrey Gartner, Cafe Church Glebe, Sydney Super Critical Mass: Swells (with Luke Jaaniste and Janet McKay) 18 brass 18’ Premiered Arts House Meat Market, Melbourne Super Critical Mass: Glow (with Luke Jaaniste and Janet McKay) 14 clarinets 15’
Super Critical Mass: Quiver (with Luke Jaaniste and Janet McKay) 6 flutes 18’ Premiered Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane Teeth Tenor sax, piano, electric guitar, electric bass, ‘cello, drum kit 12’ Premiered by Chronology Arts, 2010 ISCM World New Music Days, Sydney Bad Blood Piano 12’ Premiered by Lisa Moore, 2010 MATA Festival, NYC 2009 House Music 2 identical synthesizers 25’ Premiered by An Infinity Room (AIR), Street Theatre, Canberra Ceremony 5 identical synthesizers 45’ Premiered by An Infinity Room (AIR), Canberra Contemporary Art Space Turning The Tables On … 5 turntables 40’ Premiered Performance Space, Sydney Bulb Orchestra 9’ B Is For Body (In 3 Parts) Celesta 10’ 2008 100 Lullabies -‐ Keyboard (celeste, synthesizer, piano or toy piano) 100+’ Night Nurse (This Thing Deep Inside You Will Kill You) Quintet (2 x electric guitars, electric bass guitar, synthesizer, drum kit) 7’ Premiered by Chronology Arts, Seymour Centre, Sydney
Preparing To Be Beautiful Electronics 75’ Premiered at Artrage Festival, The Moore’s Building, WA Ascending Children Massed flute choir 20’ Premiered at Sydney Childrens Festival, CarriageWorks, Sydney, 2007 Beginning To Collapse Large chamber ensemble, electronics 11’ Premiered by Chronology Arts, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Hundreds Of Exploding Suns Bass flute, electronics 9’ Premiered by Janet McKay, Marrickville Festival, Sydney 2006 Falling Towards The Sky Orchestra 12’ Premiered by Orchestra Victoria conducted by Richard Mills, Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne Tunnelvision 4 clarinets 10’ Commissioned by Clarity Clarinet Quartet 2005 Luxe (Everything New Is Old Again) Bass clarinet, 2 x guitar, violin, ‘cello, piano, percussion 7’ Premiered by dominantSEVEN, Darwin International Guitar Festival 2004 Cowboys In Pain MIDI drum kit 10’ Premiered by Grant Collins, Liquid Architecture Festival of Sound Arts, RMIT, Melbourne