Quinkan

Live didjeridu, piano and synthetic orchestral score

Artwork and cover design: Rudolf Crivici.

Review:
“Romano Crivici’s supportive electronic score sensitively incorporates Indigenous elements to fulfil Miller’s requirement of a classically conceived musical composition………….and makes sense of her remarks before the show about why she had wanted a classical dance score. It is as if there was created in this blend -an interpenetration of contemporary dance, classical music and Indigenous content conveyed through specific gestural language -an alternative, Utopian history. Europeans are here welcomed to the land and initiated into a properly timeless respect for the unique nature of the continent and the subtleties of its Indigenous culture.” (Real Time, vol. 85, June/July 2008)

[This work awaits its full realisation in a live performance/recording, and is one of my on-going projects, already many sections have been re-orchestrated, developed, and in some sections completely rewritten ( as in movement 6, the Duet of Love and Hate)]

Performed by:  Mark Atkins -didjeridu,  Romano Crivici -keyboard, computor/synthesizor.

Track	Name & description
1	Morning/ Women’s Community
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2	Quinkan traverses the Land, Solo
3	Female and Quinkan Duet
4	Loss and Lament
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5	Quinkan entices second female
6	Matriarch and Quinkan- conflict
7	Women reclaim Life and Land
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