F.S. Kelly was an Australian-British composer who began composing his "Elegy in Memoriam Rupert Brooke" as his dear friend, the poet Brooke lay dying. Kelly survived the carnage at Gallipoli, only to die while rushing a German machine gun at Beaucourt-sur-l'Ancre. I adapted the famous string work for voices in a setting one of Brooke's best-known poems.

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A simple, harmonically-engaging setting of Veni Creator Spiritus, based on Rabanus Maurus' 9th century hymn. A solo plainchant singer weaves the traditional melody through a six-part harmonisation.

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Who Are We marvels at the enormity of the universe. The text is by the great scientist, communicator and atheist, Carl Sagan:

We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy in some forgotten corner of a universe containing far more galaxies than people.

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This is a song by Major Lazer that I really connect with. simple and direct lyrics and a melody with a beautiful shape.

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Text by Pindar:

When the chamber of the scarlet-clothed Hours is opened
And the nectareous flowers usher in the fragrant spring,
Then are scattered, then, on the immortal ground
The lovely petals of violets; roses are wound in our hair;
Loudly echo the voices of songs to the flutes,
And choirs step in procession to dark-ribboned Semele.

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This is my arrangement of a beautiful German Christmas carol.

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I quite like our national anthem, even though it gets a bad rap. It has satisfying rising & falling phrases and a clear structure. I arranged it a few years ago, wanting to explore some different harmonic possibilities.

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An arrangement of this beautiful Scottish folksong.

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‘Turing Believes Machines Think’ is a setting of British computer pioneer Alan Turing’s tragic last syllogism:

Turing believes machines think
Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think

Yours in distress, Alan

This curious text appears at the end of a letter from Turing to a friend, conveying his distress at his prosecution for a relationship with a man. I’ve tried to express Turing’s fear that his life’s work – that of making ‘machines think’ – will be nullified by his criminal conviction.

The work was commissioned and premiered by the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir.

There is an optional backing track: the sound of Turing’s ‘Bombe’ machine (download the track here).

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