The Hollow Air
Image credit: Rod Boothy
Musical Director: Phillip Slater
Collaborators: Richard Nunns and Greg White
Premiere: Sun 18 March 2007, Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall, Auckland Festival
Program Notes
Traditional Maori instruments, improvisation, sound projection and real time manipulation using MAX/MSP combine in The Hollow Air: a fluid, ambient new work co-commissioned by the Australian Art Orchestra and the 2007 Auckland Festival.
AAO composer and musician Phillip Slater brings together New Zealand multi-instrumentalist Richard Nunns, an established and acclaimed ethnographer and practitioner of over twenty traditional instruments unique to Maori culture, and sound designer, composer and improviser Greg White with members of the Australian Art Orchestra.
Watch an excerpt of The Hollow Air
Tour History
2007 - Auckland Town Hall, Auckland Festival
Performance Artists
Phillip Slater Trumpet, Laptop
Greg White Laptop
Carl Dewhurst Guitar, electronics
Alister Spence Piano, laptop
Vanessa Tomlinson Percussion
Richard Nunns Traditional Maori instrments (Taonga Puoro)
John O'Donnell Sound
Duration: 40min
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