Alexander Garsden

Composition / Collaborative / Research

Selected notated works:

outlines for string trio, 9 min (2022)
Recorded by Rosanne Hunt, Erkki Veltheim, Lizzy Welsh
Premiere forthcoming

drift in broken light for string sextet, 21 min (2022)
Recorded by Rosanne Hunt, Erkki Veltheim, Lizzy Welsh
Premiere forthcoming

inside outside (original soundtrack) (2022)
For Hanna Chetwin’s film inside outside
Ann Arbour Film Festival, 2024

chaconne (for l) for violin, 9 min (2019)
Premiered by Lizzy Welsh, Old Church, Bendigo, July 2023

shadows before for guitar, 14 min (2019)
Premiered by Alexander Garsden, Church of All Nations, Carlton, Jun 2019

tolle lege, tolle lege… for percussion quartet and computer (2019)
Premiered by Speak Percussion, Jun 2019, Meat Market, Melbourne

tremolo for large gong and microphone, 12 min (2019)
Premiered by Eugene Ughetti, Nov 2022, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

growing (original soundtrack) (2018)
For Hanna Chetwin’s film Growing, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Apr 2019

southern climes (original soundtrack) (2018)
For Hanna Chetwin’s film Southern Climes, Melbourne International Film Festival, 2019

we never come here for Chamber Orchestra and Computer, 12 min (2016)
Premiered by Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Carriageworks, Sydney, Nov 2016

fantasmas, para erice for four large gongs and tactile transducers, 15 min (2015-16)
Premiered by Speak Percussion (as Messages to Erice)
Melbourne Recital Centre, Metropolis New Music Festival, May 2015

nor is it that of twilight, nor is it that of dawn for piano and computer, 41 min (2015)
Premiered by Michael Kieran Harvey, Church of All Nations, Carlton, Jan 2016

carrington event, Sept. 1-3, 1859 for computer, 16 min (2015)
Performed by Alexander Garsden, Church of All Nations, Carlton, 2015

telomerase Viol and Divergent Chorale for double bass and computer, 9 min (2015)
Premiered by Jon Heilbron, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, Sept 2015

faculties intact (con tutta forza) for chamber orchestra, 8 min (2015)
Premiered by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne Recital Centre, Metropolis New Music Festival, May 2015

[ja] maser for soprano and computer, 9 min (2014)
Premiered by Jessica Aszodi, Seymour Centre, Vivid Sydney, 2014