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Home / Compositions / Memorial

Memorial (1994)

11 minutes
for cello and digital delay

Commissioned by Tall Poppies Records for David Pereira

First performance by David Pereira, Balmain Town Hall, Sydney, 24 September 1994

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Andrew Ford’s Memorial refers to the handing back of ‘Uluru’ (Ayers Rock) to its traditional guardians (the [CD] booklet says ‘owners’, but that’s another debate). Ford wrestled with his reluctance to engage with Aboriginal culture, but ultimately, seeing Uluru’s physical presence as a kind of memorial, almost a cenotaph in the middle of Australia, expressed this partly as a lament, partly as a celebration of the strength and endurance of the Aboriginal people. The cello is treated with a delay which in fact makes it sound as if it is placed in a vast acoustic. The echoes come to us as if from the inside of caverns measureless to man, and to me very movingly express the loneliness and incredible hugeness of the Australian outback. Dominy Clements, Musicweb International

Instrumentations: Instrumental (solo and duo), Instrumental - strings

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