https://www.robertdavidson.org/home daily 1.0 2024-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1725777942064-NRBD7FX5MQNMNC1PFG7U/rob-in-studio.jpg Home https://www.robertdavidson.org/multimedia daily 0.75 2019-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550365701656-SNJONL6JULMG2L6X4I48/gillard.jpg Multimedia works - "Not Now, Not Ever!" (Gillard Misogyny Speech) A choral setting of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s speech against misogyny in parliament. The choir backs the PM so that it sounds like she herself is singing, though no pitch manipulation has been done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550365701656-SNJONL6JULMG2L6X4I48/gillard.jpg Multimedia works - "Not Now, Not Ever!" (Gillard Misogyny Speech) A choral setting of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s speech against misogyny in parliament. The choir backs the PM so that it sounds like she herself is singing, though no pitch manipulation has been done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550366356614-CANW1MOOHWLW0484QCMT/stalin-prop.jpeg Multimedia works - Stalin's Piano excerpts A collection of voice portraits, deriving the music from speech, juxtaposing artists and politicians. The central figure is Maria Yudina, Stalin’s favourite pianist, even while she defied and denounced him at every turn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550366951952-Z1LBQY8D6S1QAH9JY6H5/image-asset.jpeg Multimedia works - The Art of Agony: Percy Grainger's speech as music A two-piano version of a voice portrait of Percy Grainger, in which he teases the interviewer Wayne Howell on WQXR Radio, 3 August 1952. The spoken intonation of both Percy and Wayne form the musical material of the pianos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557814407283-VTESIV9ASDZHF0MVX9IE/image-asset.jpeg Multimedia works - Airwaves: 100 years of Radio - Martin Luther King Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” is inherently musical, and the accompaniment here enhances perception of his melody and rhythm. Airwaves works backwards from 2001 to 1901 with highlights of one hundred years of radio broadcasts, eventually finishing with Marconi’s lonely Morse code “dit dit dit” repetitions sent from St John’s Newfoundland on 12 December 1901. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557814703303-GQ116XRJI86G7GL47VTU/image-asset.jpeg Multimedia works - We Apologise This choral composition recreates a recorded voice purely through acoustic imitation of the slowed down audio. The original 2-second “We apologise” phrase from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is digitally stretched to five minutes. The resulting sound is sung acoustically by the choir. When the recording of the choir, without the original audio, is sped back up again, the voice of Kevin Rudd emerges phantom-like. Rudd’s phrase was uttered as part of the historic national apology to Australia’s indigenous “stolen generations”. His short phrase is lengthened using the same proportion of time between settler Australia and indigenous Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557815270602-VNFV32RDJ4L82EQSCFPC/image-asset.jpeg Multimedia works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557815282009-94M55LAYLAFYLCEOCW0Z/image-asset.jpeg Multimedia works - Taken Composed with Paul Dean, Taken is a way for us to listen to members of Australia’s Stolen Generations. Davidson’s interview with Aunty Ruth Hegarty is mixed with excerpts from the “Bringing them home” report, recounting experiences of family separation resulting from government interventions. https://www.robertdavidson.org/chamber daily 0.75 2019-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550368079234-TFZQR3RB1UIXVQY4Y30M/TOPOLOGY%2C_artist-in-residence_at_the_Brisbane_Powerhouse.jpg Small ensemble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557819950326-5RY39L4ED8SH4GVF0B3W/string_quartet-long122.gif Small ensemble - String Quartet no 1 (1996) A brooding opening gives way to energised solos until ecstatic counterpoint builds up line by line https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550367619370-9W7Q090R8TYWPZ7DFXH1/image-asset.jpeg Small ensemble - "Naomi" for String Quartet (2014) Tender lyricism, hushed stillness and airborne widely-spaced melody characterise this portrait piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557819749230-JJB4GX9MUI0GHHGAY2FS/image-asset.jpeg Small ensemble - String trio I came to write a trio for violin, viola and double bass partly out of a desire to play in such a trio myself as a bassist. It is a particularly resonant ensemble, and the bass is free to occupy a wide range with no cello as competition. Performed here by Evgeniy Subbotin (violin), Serge Poltavsky (viola), Grigory Krotenko (bass). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557820024527-2ZJHTQ7TWS09ONL0ZTM1/image-asset.jpeg Small ensemble - Landscape The area around the Glasshouse Mountains in southeast Queensland is the inspiration for the work. This is a landscape dominated by boldly shaped mountains, possessing for me a sense of great age and a certain violence - these mountains were once inside volcanoes. There is a great variety of topography in Landscape's landscape, including large placid lakes, ocean, wide plains, rainforest and scrubby bush. The music reflects this diversity with a range of contrasting textures. Performed here by SaveAsMusic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557820104907-CPQAZ0LOLPIOTMP5F5SJ/image-asset.jpeg Small ensemble - Landscape (guitar quintet version) The area around the Glasshouse Mountains in southeast Queensland is the inspiration for the work. This is a landscape dominated by boldly shaped mountains, possessing for me a sense of great age and a certain violence - these mountains were once inside volcanoes. There is a great variety of topography in Landscape's landscape, including large placid lakes, ocean, wide plains, rainforest and scrubby bush. The music reflects this diversity with a range of contrasting textures. Performed by Matt Withers and the Acacia Quartet - album here: https://mattwithers.com.au/imaginations/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557820733045-VJ0S0HKUBDD0I9F7HMUH/Brisbane_ST_03.jpg Small ensemble - River Evocative lyrical composition for guitar quartet, inspired by locations around the Brisbane River. Intricate contrapuntal lines mesh together to create a complex rhythmic interplay. Performed and commissioned by the Melbourne Guitar Quartet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557820866140-8UB3F290RJSCZAG8Y7AB/Kangaroo_Point_Cliffs_and_Park%2C_Brisbane_04.jpg Small ensemble - Cliffs Lyrical work for four guitars inspired by locations around the Kangaroo Point cliffs in Brisbane. Performed and commissioned by the Melbourne Guitar Quartet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557828377081-Y78J96GSNGBI0A0CGKTU/image-asset.jpeg Small ensemble - Above Ground (percussion concerto) This percussion concerto was commissioned by Karak and the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, and its rescoring for chamber forces was commissioned by Musica Viva. The work draws together several diverse genres, including 1970s television music and the classical concerto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557828514250-NZTBX3AVLPZT0QUOMGUX/image-asset.jpeg Small ensemble - Exterior Exterior is one of the four movements in “Four Places”, which are each inspired by different architectural spaces. This movement is about an imagined large temple’s forecourt. Performed by Topology (Bernard Hoey, viola; John Babbage, soprano sax; Robert Davidson, bass) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557830826133-7CC98QQLP6KG6L9Y470O/image-asset.jpeg Small ensemble - Glare Performed here by one clever guy! This contrapuntal piece for trumpet, strings and piano is a play on the word: the glare from the sun, and a glare given to you when you do something anti-social. https://www.robertdavidson.org/solo daily 0.75 2023-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550368336656-530UZVQOBHT2AR7Y04QM/image-asset.jpeg Solo - Spiral for viola with delay The viola soloist becomes an ensemble through looping, but in intricate ways that involve hockets and overlapping harmonics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550368336656-530UZVQOBHT2AR7Y04QM/image-asset.jpeg Solo - Spiral for viola with delay The viola soloist becomes an ensemble through looping, but in intricate ways that involve hockets and overlapping harmonics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550368655899-XMU6Y0J5OA43T1BS9DI4/image-asset.jpeg Solo - This Single Moment for violin and piano Capturing a particular instance seared in the memory from walking to primary school on a sunlit spring day, this short work is a meditative reflection on the fleeting moments that make up our lives. Robert Davidson was commissioned by 4MBS Festival of Classics to compose this duo for Jonny Ng and Fern Ong, who play it here in a loungeroom recording. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550368739782-ZFCQFE1TXR1L04HDLRU7/image-asset.jpeg Solo - Jump for bass clarinet This piece jumps all over the range of the very flexible bass clarinet, in an attempt to make a single instrument sound like a group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1601168224193-P05VKPI5ILRQK1GSBKAS/image-asset.jpeg Solo - Robert Davidson Solo improvised concert by the composer on double bass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1698369425630-DNFZU8MDK0M8ZD9NFMP2/image-asset.jpeg Solo - Out of Silence (2014) for piano and delay, by Robert Davidson A piano with digital delay transforms a single note into a dense tapestry of sound. https://www.robertdavidson.org/electronic daily 0.75 2019-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550369016643-MZ5Z30FSA2IOHWKUMJTZ/image-asset.jpeg Electronic - Spin A loop gradually grows from a blip into a two-bar pattern, piles up, then gets sucked back up into the blip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550369016643-MZ5Z30FSA2IOHWKUMJTZ/image-asset.jpeg Electronic - Spin A loop gradually grows from a blip into a two-bar pattern, piles up, then gets sucked back up into the blip. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/5c68c0924e17b627481d0848/5c68c0f8b0ad023d895985f7/1550369016251/ Electronic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550369068987-VO0ULUZMKJ9XQV8LM2H7/image-asset.jpeg Electronic - Message A voicemail from Steve Reich is put through a rather Reichian process, gradually slowing down as loops move through it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550369193270-1ZA7LWQUFQU4QM83Q1E2/image-asset.jpeg Electronic - David (concise version) The voice of my young nephew is looped, each time adding a copy slightly late, until the layers create an array of resultant sounds and melodies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550369549088-OCU0HHPQ0WV5GKOMGNMQ/image-asset.jpeg Electronic - No doubt As Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott had few admitted doubts. HIs grooving words gradually smear into a chiming, swirling drone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557915155178-XWG1FWAUI20BUVPSTXGO/image-asset.jpeg Electronic - Memory This piece plays with a bug in the operating system of the Ensoniq ASR-10 digital sampler. A randomly selected group of sampled recordings of speech, musical passages and single sounds are placed into the sampler's memory. In addition, a number of preset parametric processes are set up; the whole is then subjected to near-random processing due to the bug. The spectrogram shows some of the interesting patterns emerging from the parametric processes transformed by memory management bugs. https://www.robertdavidson.org/choral daily 0.75 2019-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550373054326-B5Y9YT6Y50P25HCABFD4/QMF-SWILL-QPAC-6113-copy.jpg Choral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557831123137-HJOGG0AKOJ34USFQ3EF6/BtDad1qCQAANkwN.jpg Choral - Let It All Unravel A setting of Michael Luenig’s poem, created in consultation with the poet. A reminder of how to deal with feeling overwhelmed. Commissioned by The Song Company and sung here by Luminescence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557831207408-2UPW42FX2CSKVRGR0SH0/image-asset.jpeg Choral - A Stain On Our Soul (Tony Abbott) A setting of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s speech about Australia’s first people - the government’s failures toward them is a stain on our soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557831316919-IO7S7S4I16U2UOYIQXWA/image-asset.jpeg Choral - Total Political Correctness (Megyn Kelly & Donald Trump) During the US 2016 election, Donald Trump is grilled by Megyn Kelly about his misogynistic statements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557831412315-770KNSAJEGZNKDJPY358/image-asset.jpeg Choral - Well May We Say The most famous political speech in Australian history is Gough Whitlam’s words upon being sacked by the Governor General in 1975. Sung here by The Australian Voices conducted by Gordon Hamilton. https://www.robertdavidson.org/experimental daily 0.75 2019-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1550372670095-F3JFBTHTBVRVS5T5AFJ4/wind-sonata.jpg Experimental https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557817417417-SXZHEX7JQJTP4HZ4IRYM/wind-sonata-cropped2.jpg Experimental - Wind Sonata Insert a balloon into the lowest joint of a clarinet. Play the lowest pitch, thereby inflating the balloon until it bursts. The low-pitched drone starts clearly and boldly, but becomes increasingly strained as the performer's lung capacity is challenged, and the air pressure from the inflated balloon pushes air back into the instrument. The tone quality is also markedly affected by the changing size of the balloon, which acts as an acoustic resonator with a widely varying spectral profile. The performer's obvious struggle against increasingly difficult constraints is very effective dramatically, as is the eventual resolution (both timbrally and physically) when the balloon loudly bursts. Clearly an exercise in intermedia, the work displays properties of sculpture, theatre, poetry, music and sport without being obviously restricted to any of these media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557816418235-K7HAI8OUXLNH5I1OARXQ/2_3_5_.JPG Experimental - 2:3:5:7:11 2:3:5:7:11 consists of a bicycle wheel, mounted on a wall, with obvious references to Duchamp. Upon the wheel are mounted small bolts, arranged on the rim in the prime-number ratios described in the title, and differentiated from each other by slight changes in the bolts' height. One bolt represents the "downbeat" of the cycle, where all of the subdivisions meet. Opposite this bolt is another bolt, dividing the circle into two. Two other bolts complete a division into three, and so on with divisions of five, seven and eleven. A small metal tongue is placed on the mounting so that each bolt produces a clicking sound when the wheel is spun, realising the ratio in sound and time. The resulting sound is a palindromic rhythmic pattern, and also (theoretically) a very low-pitched five-note chord drawn from the harmonic series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557818440343-GM0RUWNDOUK3LHL6CACI/STILLIF2.JPG Experimental - Still Life Still Life is a tribute to Jon Hassell's 1969 work Map. In Still Life, a portable cassette player is mounted on a pedestal; the machine has been altered so that its playback head is extended on a long wire out of its normal position. On neighbouring pedestals sit three framed boards upon which have been glued numerous lengths of audiocassette tape, covering 30 cm square, and resembling monochrome paintings. Each "picture" is composed of different types of recordings - on one is a series of breakbeats, on another is sustained instrumental pitches, and on a third is speech. The three represent rhythm, pitch and text as three basic components of music; they also represent the sorts of recordings that I found to be effective for performance with the hand-held playback head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557816191868-OL4ZAVNYWQ4MD33ZDFB1/SIMPTIC4.JPG Experimental - Cycle Cycle turns to the attractive time and sound structure of a washing machine's full washing cycle. For a performance of Cycle, a washing machine is brought on stage. As it washes the socks of most audience members, musicians play phrases they hear in the gently repetitive, always changing sounds of the machine. At evenly-spaced intervals, the machine suddenly changes its sound as it abruptly moves into the next stage of its washing cycle. The combination of gradual and abrupt change is, to my ears, very pleasing. The performance highlights and "frames" this unintentional musical structure, and uses it as a basis for highly disciplined listening and playing, taking from Fluxus the enjoyment of focused, concentrated action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557818170377-D8V7PKS97WECAWGDEQPM/FISH1.JPG Experimental - Fishing Using a fishing rod, catch a portable loudspeaker, playing any sound, from a pool on stage. The sound is transformed as it is reeled in, and the loudspeaker swings around on the line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557816583391-CXV6D71P3HX7MJT3R9RE/STMUSIC2.JPG Experimental - Sheet Music A chamber ensemble uses their printed sheet music as instruments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557818000680-FKLFG4TNQPD8ATFXG5B8/Screen+Shot+2019-05-14+at+9.12.23+am.png Experimental - Three studies These compositions, in the spirit of Fluxus, make use of the results of physical resistance and difficulty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557817684378-EOOXTXDZMZRGY32AC3HF/Screen+Shot+2019-05-14+at+9.07.36+am.png Experimental - Sonata The sound is transformed, via gradual "degradation" of intonation, tone quality and rhythmic accuracy, from conventionally beautiful violin and piano playing to harsh scratching and bumping sounds. In performances by Topology, the violinist and pianist are women and the agents of bondage are men, charging the performance with resonances of patriarchy. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/5c68c2454785d32318b57a84/5cda6b33652dea216f8fb134/1557818163834/ Experimental - Fish https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/5c68c2454785d32318b57a84/5cda6d2f269a310001275c70/1557818671058/ Experimental https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557818677876-DMCGA33QI1HF7AK8KEHL/RUNDOWN1.JPG Experimental - Running down (with Linda Dennis) (1998) Created with sculptor Linda Denis, Running Down uses two loops, one of audiotape and one of film, in constant transformation. Both loops are assembled to run through geometrically placed skewers in the wall, and both continually deteriorate by passing over a small piece of sandpaper, resulting in small changes with every repetition. Over the period of one and a half weeks, the film becomes so heavily scratched that the projection consists of vertical lines slowly moving from side to side with streaks of colour. The audiotape, originally a high quality recording of a seven-second excerpt from the first movement of Brahms' Piano Trio in A minor, is greatly stretched and dulled over the period, ending as vague tremulant underwater sounds. Both loops use antique instruments - obsolete reel-to-reel equipment, a super eight projector, and a suitably dated pair of loudspeakers with a fake-wood-panel amplifier. As well as carrying out a process of decay, the work draws attention to the fallibility of technology, and demonstrates a fascination for film and tape as physical embodiments of frozen time. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/5c68c2454785d32318b57a84/5cda6c44971a1845540599ed/1557818436081/ Experimental https://www.robertdavidson.org/more-small-ensemble daily 0.75 2019-05-14 https://www.robertdavidson.org/orchestral daily 0.75 2021-08-31 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/t/612eb84453396369c90761f9/1630451145877/ String orchestra - "From to here" (2020) by Robert Davidson. For string orchestra with piano. Commissioned by the Queensland Ballet for a large dance work choreographed by Rani Luther to open the new Thomas Dixon Centre, this work is in four movements, corresponding to the elements of air, earth, fire and water, tracing the experience of being uprooted from one’s homeland and moving to a new culture; or by extension, moving from a familiar to an unfamiliar situation in life. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/612eb5a4b5f61d267224dc39/612eb5af723cb40cce021dfe/1630451145877/ String orchestra - "From to here" (2020) by Robert Davidson. For string orchestra with piano. Commissioned by the Queensland Ballet for a large dance work choreographed by Rani Luther to open the new Thomas Dixon Centre, this work is in four movements, corresponding to the elements of air, earth, fire and water, tracing the experience of being uprooted from one’s homeland and moving to a new culture; or by extension, moving from a familiar to an unfamiliar situation in life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1630451271565-NUFW4WHL5ZCTRW5NN0GP/image-asset.png String orchestra - "From to here" (2020) by Robert Davidson. For string orchestra with piano. Commissioned by the Queensland Ballet for a large dance work choreographed by Rani Luther to open the new Thomas Dixon Centre, this work is in four movements, corresponding to the elements of air, earth, fire and water, tracing the experience of being uprooted from one’s homeland and moving to a new culture; or by extension, moving from a familiar to an unfamiliar situation in life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1630451361660-YN6HK64PEA4LYDQFN1I4/image-asset.png String orchestra - Elegy for string orchestra (with score), by Robert Davidson A memorial of the composer’s mother. Poignant and grand, mixing affection with longing and melancholy through soaring melodies accompanied by ruminating ostinati, ending in affirmation: “love is stronger than death”. A piece that is very practical for students, and is often played by school and youth orchestras, but also very suitable for professional performance. Commissioned by the Australian Youth Orchestra. “My favourite piece on the concert” - Edgar Meyer (legendary bassist, on a concert that featured his music!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1630451550075-H0X6S1HYR90OP34A5AYM/image-asset.png String orchestra - Here you go for string orchestra (2021) by Robert Davidson. With score. A boisterous, sometimes frenetic, outdoors burst of energy composed during a COVID19 lockdown. The extroversion, using repetition of folk-like riffs, is a foil to the restrictions and heartache of the pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1630451726773-OXYB4U634C5AM5318PT7/image-asset.png String orchestra - Fantasia for strings by Robert Davidson. With score This is a stretched-out, tranquil somewhat minimalist transformation of an early Baroque composition, Concerto op. 7 no. 7, by Guiseppe Valentini, nicknamed Straccioncino ("the little ragamuffin"). https://www.robertdavidson.org/orchestra daily 0.75 2021-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1630452170960-LKFPB4SNBMBGJOOFTEZ7/image-asset.png Orchestra - Round Roads (2015) for orchestra (with score) A vibrant depiction of Australia’s capital city, with traces of the composer’s childhood memories there, cycling through the landscape, bushfires, and the grandiosity of politicians. Lyrical, soaring, fiercely driving, and sometimes bombastic. Very suitable as a concert opener. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1630452170960-LKFPB4SNBMBGJOOFTEZ7/image-asset.png Orchestra - Round Roads (2015) for orchestra (with score) A vibrant depiction of Australia’s capital city, with traces of the composer’s childhood memories there, cycling through the landscape, bushfires, and the grandiosity of politicians. Lyrical, soaring, fiercely driving, and sometimes bombastic. Very suitable as a concert opener. https://www.robertdavidson.org/piano daily 0.75 2023-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1698370898979-CSRGPJI8YK922PRCX2W3/image.jpg Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1698370720752-I6CQ385K5UUBR9C44LRE/image-asset.octet-stream Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1698378234564-RHM9QROO2SATVEQCJ6BI/image-asset.png Piano - Lost in Light (2023) for piano, by Robert Davidson An ecstatic solo piano work inspired by the poem "I am not yours" by Sara Teasdale. I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light. Oh plunge me deep in love—put out My senses, leave me deaf and blind, Swept by the tempest of your love, A taper in a rushing wind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1698370807624-NYCP8Y8DRKKMWNMDYSZO/image.jpg Piano - Out of Silence (2014) for piano and delay, by Robert Davidson A single note gradually grows into a dense tapestry of sound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1698371092008-5V1VKG3TK27BUG2YYVHG/image-asset.png Piano - Melody for Karin (2023) for piano, by Robert Davidson An intimate, lyrical work dedicated to Karin Schaupp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1698377839965-6GKLV7WEXK2DXRON0A1O/image-asset.jpeg Piano - The lady from the sea for solo piano by Robert Davidson A suite of music I composed (for the ensemble Topology) for an Indian production of Ibsen's masterful play, directed by Jyothish MG and performed by Abhinaya Theatre Research Group in their home town of Thiruvananthapuram, as well as toured around India and Australia. Jyothish decided to name the play "Sagarakanyaka" after the famous mermaid sculpture at Shankumugham Beach in Kerala. I've adapted the music for myself to play alone on the piano. https://www.robertdavidson.org/contact daily 0.75 2021-09-30 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/t/5c834dd108522903c397f19a/1487104996732/Type+Vol.+2+4.jpg Contact https://www.robertdavidson.org/new-page daily 0.75 2019-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1552127237164-12NFM1TPGPEO5H3FPNG7/gillard.jpg New Page Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivers her speech decrying misogyny in parliament https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1552127122336-CJCKYRSVW2LSQT8TM009/stalins-piano.jpg New Page Sonya Lifschitz plays Stalin’s Piano at City Recital Hall, Sydney https://www.robertdavidson.org/about daily 0.75 2019-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c660db4755be249e3e05015/1557930453113-EDX69DQ3H2RKEN4G14GA/rob-bass-smile.jpg About https://www.robertdavidson.org/scores daily 0.75 2020-10-05