This release presents live recordings from a fundraiser concert for the Children of Gaza, the final concert of a Chamber Music NZ tour staged at Kāhui St David's in Auckland, 2025. The programme includes a recently revised 45-minute work from the From Scratch repertoire, Songs for Unsung Heroes, plus improvised responses to two short films:
Metroplex is a musical response to Gregory Bennett’s film, “Metroplex” (2024), a digital animation evocative of ritualised human conditioning amidst a fantastic, mechanised and dystopian landscape. The music is performed on DIY-invented and found instruments, including drums, cymbals and bells.
Aerial Bells, composed by Shane Currey, is a musical response to Teresa Peters’s “Black Moon” (2023), which fuses raw clay into digital media. The black moon marks the cyclical point of complete regeneration in the lunar phases. Unseen to the human eye, it represents a turning point of new life and positive transformation. The music is performed on Shane’s aerial bells.
"The awareness and use of space in this music suggest a physical sense of the Pacific unlike anything else I’ve heard."
Nick Bollinger, THE LISTENER
"Music from wise heads... making percussion do more than you ever thought it could... life-affirming in a very accomplished way."
Russell Brown, RIP IT UP
