Re: Robert Davidson

"Bob Lee" <quasar@b0b.com> wrote:

>On KPFA last night there was an hour of music by an Australian composer

>named Robert Davidson. I could hear a lot of influences of Terry
Riley,
>Steve Reich, even a little bit of Lou Harrison. The music was very
>interesting, though some of it fell into the "that's not music, that's
>noise" category. (But it was really good noise!)
>
>Can anyone tell me more about Robert Davidson. The announcer didn't
mention
>anything about tunings, but it seemed obvious to me that Mr. Davidson
is not
>tied to 12TET.

Pop your head into rec.music.classical.contemporary, I've
run into him a few times there. The Riley influence must
come from his studying with Shri Riley.

But I've never heard his music.

David Beardsley

At 05:07 PM 2/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Can anyone tell me more about Robert Davidson.

http://www.under.org/cpccdirectory/dir_d.htm

http://www.ozco.gov.au/whatsnew/Rel98_35.html:
"Robert Davidson will compose a new work for orchestra and ancient Chinese
string instrument, the Pipa, for Ensemble 24 (NSW) $3,800 for
performances featuring prize-winning Pipa player Xiao-lan Chen in
Melbourne, country Victoria and Brisbane."

http://www.amcoz.com.au/library/catd.htm:
a list of some scores