Master of Music (Composition)

Abstract

This completed folio comprises five works, including two orchestral, two small ensemble and one solo for voice and electronics. The compositions concern colour, timbre, gesture, and alternative notation such as time-space, and through them explore the unconventional and the unknown. Extra-musical influences on form and structure are aspects of mental and social life, psychological issues and the complexities of the human mind, western concepts of ‘progress’ and ‘rationality’, and our love-hate relationship with technology and the future.