Andrew Batt-Rawden
Archive - Andrew Batt-Rawden
Album Releases
Adventurous Bodies
2019 (self-release)
This is a compilation of tracks I made for dance and physical theatre. I’ve released it simply as a portfolio. There’s a lot of detail about each track (click here). It is released on various streaming outlets including Apple Music and Spotify.
Seven Stations
2014 (Hospital Hill)
Seven Stations was my first album, released in 2014 and created in collaboration with poet Chris Mansell with singers Anna Fraser, Alison Morgan and instrumentalists Joshua Hill, Joe Manton, Stephan Duwe, Ezmi Pepper. Album engineered and released by Hospital Hill.
Scores
These are scores that are currently available to purchase through the Australian Music Centre:
“29” – STRING QUARTET – 2014 – 7 MIN
Composed for the Acacia quartet for the 2014 Australian Music Seminar presented by Richard Gill and Karen Carey at Santa Sabina College, Strathfield, NSW Australia.
“28” – STRING QUARTET AND ELECTRONICS – 2013 – 14 MIN
Composed for The NOISE quartet for their album “Composed Noise” released by Vexations 840. This is a score that is a set of instructions for a conductor to draw a graphic score which the musicians interpret live.
Video Relating to Various Projects
Writings and Ramblings
Developments of our new company, and artistic developments… (photo of a photo of a life-drawing by Guy James-Whitworth)
A review of business responses to COVID-19 and a discussion of meta perspectives on crisis. (photo is myself, Ben Hinchley and Mark Oliveiro during a development of “The Instruments”, which is being co-directed by myself and Dean Walsh).
I’m looking to propose a process of discussion and action in my workplaces - all of them, and I’d like your feedback on it. Also I’ve put a bit of info about what I’m up to in here.
I’ve released my 2nd album - Adventurous Bodies, and I’ve got a showing at the end of this month!
A few notes on “Vantage”, for solo cello and fixed media electronics being written for Christopher Bennett, as well as “Remote Control”, a 75 min solo dance work Dean’s creating and I’m making some sound for….
There was a Facebook discussion asking advice for young composers…. I couldn’t help but want to offer a few more thoughts! This list is by no means exhaustive, but I reckon a good start!
I leant a lot by being a part of my partner’s work, Threshold NRC, and I’ve just started making a new work for cellist Christopher Bennett…
I taught algorithmic composition workshops for 4 days at Bronte Public… and I think I’ve found the area of music/composition that I’d like to teach on a more regular basis.
Ben Hinchley and I, in our duo Flœk, made a 30 min work for Jaimie Leonarder’s “The Experiment”, presenting 1st friday of each month at Brand X, ESCAC in Darlinghurst, Sydney. Also this week, I taught 350 kids some composition and sound creation fundamentals at Bronte Public…. (photo by Guy James Whitworth)
Another work is in development and about to be heard... and a few other thoughts on life the universe and everything.
Lucid by Vordenker, performance in a nursing home, some plans for next year, a few reflections on failures and successes in 2017.
An update on what I've been up to recently; a performance for Arts Initiative Australia launch, a workshop in improvisation in Perth, and my next gig in Berlin.
Out of the Deep was premiered by the Song Company last night at Yellow House in Sydney. I've written a bit about my work and the concert in which it is presented.
Last night's premiere of "30/31 - Lobotomy" changed my life... it was a small but important work and event as it was the first performance of a work I'd used a devising method of creation for on other musicians...
In this blog I talk about the last session I had with the Australian Art Quartet at Bundanon, the sudden flash of "I know what to do", and outline the next steps to making this work complete!
Lyrics excerpt from Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage"
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me
I had my second session with the quartet today. I didn't have a lot of time allocated (2 hours were scheduled for me!) and I ended up going over time.
We went from easy and free to EXTREMELY CHALLENGING...
You wouldn't believe what the Australian Art Quartet did today. It is amazing working with really accomplished musicians and relating their music techniques to movement techniques, their understanding of music composition to movement composition... I'm making an integrated sound/movement work... we don't know what about yet, but we've got an 8 day residency at Bundanon to figure it out!
It's been a while between news posts, and there's a lot to catch up on... a few performances done, and a number of projects in the pipeline....
I write about what I've been up to for the past couple of weeks in artistic development and life!.. ok omitting a few things, but hey, there's always just so many wonderful artistic things to explore
I'm using this post to see how my Mailchimp RSS feed sender handles these things... I really want to be able to just automate everything. Wouldn't that be spectacular?
Morphing from composer to artist, from 2016 to 2017, from Gallop House to Mattie Furphy House. 2017 Sydney Festival of Really Good Sex, Dean Walsh, The Song Company, Dapheny Chen, Australian Art Quartet, and what am I doing in a writer's residency?
The last two weeks has been immense... a few key takeaways from my experience of an extraordinary workshop
Nature is the original source of inspiration - why have we gone so far from it in our training, our art, and our culture? A video of two albatross holds so much inspiration, and here, I unpack it.