Watt Ever
Electronic music drawn from twenty years of WATT concert presentations. Australia’s only organisation regularly staging audio-visual and electronic works, WATT gathers tape, computer and live-electronic pieces spanning that period, bringing several composers to CD for the first time.
F. Gerard Errante clarinet
Peter Jenkins performer
Graeme Leak percussion
Naomi Radom violin
Martin Wesley-Smith composer
Carl Vine composer
Jon Drummond composer
Jim Franklin composer
Adrian Luca composer
Anthony Hood composer
Julian Knowles composer
Ian Fredericks composer
Adrian Keenan composer
Anthony Jones composer
Gordon Monro composer
Greg White composer
Robert Douglas composer
Greg Schiemer composer
Graeme Leak composer
Watt composer
The two-disc set ranges across tape, computer and live-electronic pieces by members of the Sydney collective, from short BBC exercises by Carl Vine to longer works by Martin Wesley-Smith, Ian Fredericks and others. Several of the pieces appear on CD here for the first time.
Artist
Tracks
- Dah Dit Dah Dah Martin Wesley-Smith 7:11
- i :25
- ii :28
- iii 1:16
- Sea, Frogs, and Magpies Jon Drummond 8:10
- Rolling Jim Franklin 7:32
- The Opiate of the Masses [Excerpt] Adrian Luca 5:03
- Munyun Anthony Hood 5:19
- Therefore, I... Julian Knowles 12:53
- Array Carl Vine 4:11
- Viable Alternative Ian Fredericks 18:49
Three BBC Exercises Carl Vine
Disc 2
- Ex Terra Adrian Keenan 9:35
- Mandala Anthony Jones 7:08
- Heavy Industry Rik Rue Julian Knowles 7:02
- Mandala 1086 Gordon Monro 7:11
- A Longer View Rik Rue 5:55
- Orchid Greg White 6:55
- Homage to Bessemer Robert Douglas 13:05
- Polyphonic Variations Greg Schiemer Graeme Leak 9:32
- The Rosella Sisters and the Rainbow Eel Watt 9:13
Performers
- Julian Knowles · sampler, mixed by · disc 1 track 9; disc 2 track 3
- F. Gerard Errante · clarinet
- Peter Jenkins
- Graeme Leak · percussion
- Naomi Radom · violin
Composers
Jon Drummond
Jon Drummond is a Sydney-based composer working across electroacoustic music, live electronics, interactive media, the web and installation.
Carl Vine
Carl Vine AO is one of Australia's best-known and most often performed composers, with an orchestral catalogue of eight symphonies and thirteen concertos. His piano music is played widely around the world, and recordings of his work appear on more than seventy albums across the major streaming services.
Julian Knowles
Julian Knowles works at the sampler and keyboards in free improvisation and studio electronics, joining Stevie Wishart’s violin and hurdy-gurdy worlds and writing extended computer pieces that push texture, pulse and noise.
Graeme Leak
Graeme Leak's percussion sharpens Larry Sitsky's De Profundis into an intense reading of Oscar Wilde's prison text, and he moves as performer and composer through the tape and live-electronic pieces of the WATT collective.
Adrian Luca
Adrian Luca writes electronic music that sits among the tape, computer and live-electronic pieces of Sydney's WATT collective, and shapes intricate fusion charts for the jazz quintet Sonic Fiction.
Rik Rue
Rik Rue builds music from tape manipulation, analogue and digital samples, and close field recording. Rockpools and tidal motion become extended soundscapes; elsewhere his electronics lock into dense, interlocking textures with voice, winds and strings.
Martin Wesley-Smith
Martin Wesley-Smith wrote music audiences actually like: electronic pieces that stay human, choral parables that turn nursery rhymes into environmental inquests, and chamber scores laced with Lewis Carroll fantasy and hard political irony.
Greg White
Greg White shapes music through live computer interaction, sound manipulation and programming, often in dialogue with improvising instrumentalists. His work moves between composed electronic pieces and long-form interactive soundscapes.
Where to listen
Watt Ever is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Watt Ever is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- TP074
- Total playing time
- 146 minutes 53 seconds
- Release date
- 1996
- Label
- Tall Poppies
- Musical work
copyright - © 1996 Tall Poppies Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1996 Tall Poppies Records
- Genres
- Experimental, Contemporary Classical
- Barcode
- EAN 9399000007425
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