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Tagged: Australian composers
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Multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis is a member of several musical groups and has also composed film scores with Nick Cave.
In this clip from his NFSA oral history interview with John Olson, he...
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This version of the 'Ascent Music’ was recorded by Roger Woodward in 1996 and originally composed by Bruce Smeaton for Picnic at Hanging Rock.
The contours of the ascending melodic minor motif (...
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Composer Bruce Smeaton talks candidly about his musical contribution to Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).
At the time of this interview with Peter Beilby and Ivan Hutchinson in 1974–75,...
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990) was an Australian composer with an accomplished overseas career. The opera Nausicaa is her most substantial and critically admired work and is based on Robert Graves...
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This theme from Peter Best’s score for Crocodile Dundee (Peter Faiman, 1985) fuses lush, spacious consonances, drawn-out reverberant flute gestures and bedding strings.
The flute performs sustained...
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Composer David Hirschfelder talks about his work on the film Strictly Ballroom (1992), noting it was one of the most enjoyable professional experiences of his career.
Hirschfelder provides valuable...
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Kristy (Kestie Morassi) has escaped from the camp. She has been tortured and beaten, but she runs, without shoes, until she finds the road.
An old man stops to help her. While he fetches a blanket...
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Nullah (Brandon Walters) thinks 'coppers’ are coming to take him away. The car in the distance is actually bringing Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) to Faraway Downs. Nullah describes her as 'the...
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Shine (Scott Hicks, 1996) profiles the formative years of the acclaimed pianist David Helfgott – a child musical prodigy who struggled with mental health.
As with other local productions such as The...
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The Mad Max films include some of the most compelling music on Australian celluloid.
The music not only provides emotional resonances to specific scenes and helps clarify filmic meaning, but it also...