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This is a 1989 recording, where several Australian film composers were asked to write a piece of music within the instrumental boundaries of piano, percussion and synthesizers. Whether the music was programmatic or not was left up to the composers. Each composer was responsible for 'music-producing' their own composition.
Simon Walker contributed two contrasting pieces, "Binary" (for 4 pianos, 4 percussionists and 4 synthesizers) and "Deep Space". Mark Isaacs' "Laitsun" has jazz-Latin American overtones.
"Wired" by Philip Powers features three pianos, two percussionists and four synthesizers. It is a 12-tone piece, closely following the Schoenberg rules of a twelve-tone sequence, without repeated notes, which can be introduced horizontally and vertically, repeating the 12-tone pattern from start to finish, backwards, forwards and inverted. The notes can appear vertically at any point in the piano spectrum.
"Friends and Acquaintances" features two pianos, percussion and synthesizers, and is minimalist in nature. Aaron Copland was a particular inspiration for Guy Gross in the writing of this work.
The fifth film composer represented is Chris Neal. "Ghosts" is the most programmatic piece of the 6 compositions on the album, inspired by the idea of unexplained phenomena in everyday life. The main theme is derived from a score by the composer, commissioned for a production of Ibsen's play "Ghosts".
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