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Tra$h Ma$h by Gordon Hamilton
Tra$h Ma$h is a piece made up entirely of musical quotes lifted directly from modern pop songs and mashed together using the Tippet technique (perfect for our 21st century attention spans!) More...
The Australian Voices in Concert
The Australian Voices in Concert presents stunningly beautiful and mysterious music from Australia. Hear the desert, the rainforest and the reef in surround-sound.
MOON by Gordon Hamilton
MOON is an epic song of love - written by Veny Armanno and composed by Gordon Hamilton. Diana, the moon, is lonely and sends out her moonbeams looking for love. She finds Sam, a young man, sick in bed. And so begins a really long distance relationship...
This is live footage from Melbourne Festival of Choirs at BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne.
Toy Story 3 = Awesome! (The Facebook Song) by Gordon Hamilton
Breaking new ground has always been the mantra of The Australian Voices. Now one of the country’s most acclaimed vocal ensembles embraces the idiom of social media, putting the internet’s cultural powerhouse to song in a new and adventurous creation. This quirky and experiential composition expresses the contemporary phenomenon in a dynamic and serendipitous choral presentation.
In “Toy Story 3 = Awesome!”, The Australian Voices sing a song of Facebook. Composed and conducted by Artistic Director, Gordon Hamilton, this innovative new Facebook Song takes The Australian Voices where no choir has dared to go – the inner space of the internet and the unexplored and unexpected worlds of new experiences, bizarre human relationships and pop culture adoration. This journey discovers new languages and the addictive memes and viral concepts that are attaching themselves to every facet of human life. More...
To An Early-Flowering Almond by Gordon Hamilton
Absolutely beautiful piece by Gordon Hamilton & The Australian Voices. Text by John Shaw Neilson. This is amateur footage from St Stephani, Bremen in December, 2010.
Wirindji by Stephen Leek
The Australian Voices conducted by Gordon Hamilton sing Wirindji, by Stephen Leek, during their 2010 Germany Tour.
The text of this piece is really cool. It is about a mystical tribe of desert women who would stamp their feet into the dust creating beautiful clouds. Light would shine through and create patterns and rainbows. Men would be attracted by these clouds and come to the women's camp. The Wirindji women would cook for them, mate with them then kill them and eat them! You can hear the beautiful sounds of the desert landscape, the clusters of sunlight and the dangerous moral...
A Call To Freedom by Nick Goodridge
The Australian Voices conducted by Gordon Hamilton sing the premiere of A Call To Freedom by Nick Goodridge. Nick was the winner of the Encounters III composition competition at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University from 6-9 April, 2010. This is amateur footage taken in the foyer of the Conservatorium
From the archives...
'MOON' by Gordon Hamilton at BMW Edge, Federation Square
The Australian Voices in Berlin with Bobby McFerrin
The Australian Voices at the Choral Olympics China
'Visions of Perfection' by Stephen Leek at the Judith Wright Centre
TAV at the beach
