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Home / Compositions / Radiophonic

Radiophonic

Ford’s experience as a radio presenter and sometime producer is evident from these works designed for the intimacy of home listening or headphones.

Please click work titles for more information and resources (audio, sheet music, program note etc.) about individual works in this category.

Untuning the Sky (2013)

37 mins

In collaboration with Genevieve Lacey (recorders), Phil Slater (trumpet), Gondwana Voices, the musicians of the Australian National Academy of Music, Jim Atkins (sound engineering/production).

See also version of this work for two solo instruments, pre-recorded voices and instruments.

Text: John Dryden

Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

First broadcast: ABC Classic FM, 23 November 2013

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Elegy in a Country Graveyard (2007)

25 mins
for mixed choir, band (flexible instrumentation) and prerecorded sounds

Commissioned by ABC Radio, funded by the NSW Ministry for the Arts in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

First broadcast ABC Radio National, 2007

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Deirdre of the Sorrows (1989)

28 minutes
radiophonic work for voices, instruments

Text: Martin Buzacott, from his novel Narrenschiff

Includes the voices of Martin Buzacott and Gerald English, the Sydney Children's Choir conducted by Lyn Williams, Geoffrey Collins (piccolo and bass flute), Michael Askill (percussion). Produced by David Chandler. Technical production by Belinda Webster. Recorded in Studio C of 2MBS-FM, Sydney

Commissioned by 2MBS-FM

First broadcast on 2MBS-FM, Sydney, June 1989

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