World Premiere - Revelationary Time

On the 22nd of October, my work Revelationary Time will be premiered as part of Sophia Jones' final recital at the Australian National Academy of Music.

The work, scored for two violins, was inspired by the ideas discussed in the 1977 book “Whose Music? A Sociology of Musical Languages” by John Shepherd, Phil Virden, Graham Vulliamy and Trevor Wishart.

I would like to present a few of the quotes that shaped my thought process during the writing of this work.

“Experiencing time in a concrete and cyclical fashion, therefore, pre-literate man does not conceive of time as regressing or progressing into the vanishing points of past or future infinity.” (page 16)

“Not only are the octave, the fifth and the fourth the intervals (audible as harmonics) which occur first in the harmonic series, but the fifth and the fourth provide convenient ‘half-way’ points between the two notes of the octave (which again, we may assume is the most natural interval for parallel singing) for those whose voice-range does not easily fall within either of the two lines of the octave.” (page 81)

“For in being intensely aware of the passage of time and so of his own finite existence, industrial man tends to bring an urgency to his activities which medieval man, living more within a revelationary time, would probably find hard to understand.” (page 107)

Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part of teh ANAM Set 2026 and written for Sophia Jones and Jasmine Milton. The ANAM Set 2026 is supported by the Lee Family Foundation.

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