BoldAs

A Beat-Box Brass Trio – Saxophone - Trombone - Tuba - Site-specific street performances featuring on-body mp3 dissemination system – using their instruments to communicate - improvising - 'beat-boxing' - at a virtuosic level – producer/director/composer.

Used to be Slime

Site specific work for brass ensemble and circus performersfirst performed in George Square, Glasgow 2011- producer/director/compose.

Dining With Alice

An outdoor site-specific work - mixed media event - interactive sound design with live performance - music composed for vocal soloists (6), chamber choir, chamber ensemble – V1, V2, Vla, Vc, DB, Hrn, Tpt, Tbn, Perc, Keys - directed and devised with Hilary Westlake - Salisbury Festival, U.K.1999 also produced by Artichoke Norfolk Festival at Elsing Hall 2011producer/director/composer.

The Flame of Freedom

Live national ABC TV mixed media event - Queensland Symphony Orchestra and the Brisbane Chorale - Directed and devised with David Bell & Bill Haycock- contains a number of original commissions.producer/director/composer.

Circus Lumiere

The European Tour - a circus without animals, devised by Hilary Westlake with a company of six actors, text by David Gale - music composed for featured dance pieces - written for bassoon and flute - additional music composed for the Australian production.

 

MUSIC THEATRE

 

The Lament of Lucy Vaughn-Harding

A performance piece for soprano and piano. First performed at the Kingston Festival of the Voice 2007. Text by Heather Keens. James Squire was a highwayman, from Kingston. He was convicted of robbery with menace, in 1785. He was sentenced and transported on the first fleet to Botany Bay, Australia. He became the first man to grow hops and brew beer in the new colony. This piece is his story from the viewpoint of lover and house-keeper Lucy Vaughan-Harding – in-development

Misterioso

Theatralia and Camden Peoples Theatre - a Jazz concert fused with the text of Italian writer Stefano Benni, the interactive projections of SDNA, the postmodern Sound Scapes of Frank Millward along with the mysterious notes of Pat Thomas, Orphy Robinson, Dudley Phillips, Rowland Sutherland - Director Filomena Campus.

U 238 Work in Progress

Theatralia and Camden Peoples Theatre - This work navigates areas around interactive and experimental adaptation while breaking boundaries between entertainment and information, theatre and journalistic enquiry. Director Filomena Campus.

Brightside

A dance music theatre work - winner of the “Perrier Award 1985 “ Edinburgh festival - through composed score featuring sound-scapes - music for four singers, sequencer, two tape recorders and synthesisers - devised and directed with Hilary Westlake - dialogue and lyrics by David Gale.

Senseless

An opera - composed for five singers, an actor and four musicians, percussion, violin, 'cello and keyboards - libretto by David Gale - director Hilary Westlake.

Vulture Culture

The Australian production - a through composed score for orchestra, eight singers, synthesisers, tape and sound design - performed by the Queensland Theatre Orchestra and TN! Theatre Company, conductor, John Curro - directed by Hilary Westlake - lyrics by David Gale.

Slips

A theatre piece by David Gale – electronic music composition for six voices with tape - produced as a resident project at the Wimbledon School of Art and Design - directed by Hilary Westlake

Supermarket Pavane

A play by Elizabeth Jolly, accompanying score composed for piano and sound-scapes.

And Now Freedom

A mixed media event featuring live performance with video synchronisation - producer and director of this showcasing event of original works by staff and students from the Faculty of Arts at Southern Cross University.

The Flying Fruit Fly Circus – Moscow Circus

A children's circus - music composed for three featured acts and tape, Moscow Circus Australian Tour. Albury,N.S.W. - music composed for twenty-seven feature acts for an ensemble of four instrumentalists and chorus vocals.

Heart for the Future

A play by Janis Balodis - music for solo violin, electronics and tape, The Melbourne Theatre Co.

Entertaining Strangers

A music theatre piece devised by director Hilary Westlake - through composed score features sound scapes, chorus, tape and synthesisers.

 

 

The Fair Go – Winning The 1966 Referendum

Documentary film about the 1966 Australian Referendum about the status of Aboriginal Australians - director Pat Lauchrin - A.B.C. TV.

The Legend of Fred Patterson

Documentary film about Fred Patterson the only communist to be elected to the Australian Parliment - director P.Lauchrin - A.B.C. TV.

Conquistadores

A four part documentary series about the Aztecs - BBC TV.
Composer Howard Davidson.

Station X

A four part documentary series about the code breakers in Bletchley Park during World War II - Channel 4, UK. Composer Howard Davidson.
(FM Arranger/Performer).

Animations

One Man’s Instrument
Short film animation - director / writer Max Bannah - international release (Composer).

Bird Brain

Short film animation - director / writer Max Bannah - international release (Composer).

World Expo 88 The Video
A videogram featuring the three Expo 88 songs, lyrics by Carol Lloyd and additional instrumental material. (Composer).

Education '86
Music to an educational video produced by Queensland Education Production and Publishing Services. (Composer).

 

MEDIA ART

 

 

MULTIMEDIA

 

Uneasy Dreams

Featurin the Delta Saxophone Quartet - a DVD with music by: Gerald Barry – ‘Before the Road’ (1997), Tim Ewers – ‘On the Edge’ (2006), Michael Finnissy – ‘Selected Movements of The Great Masters’ (1996), Steve Goss – ‘Uneasy Dreams’ (2006), Mike Searby – ‘Ghosts and Arias’ (2007) and visual moving images by Frank Millward and Dave Orwell - FMR Records

From Anger To Sadness #4, #3, #2, #1

Multimedia work for solo soprano & projections, #4 presented at TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) conference Kingston University, 2011- #3 presented at the National Review of Live Art, 2010 - #2 presented at Goldsmith University Intimacy Conference Dec 2007 - #1 - York University Netvotech July 2006 - part of The Visual Voice project, collaboration with ENT surgeon, Dr John Rubin, exploring connections between scientific and artistic visualization processes.  #1 for small choir and soprano solo - #2 for solo soprano.  Both pieces use projected 3D spectrographic images (MAX/MSP/Jitter) with pre-recorded nasendoscopy images of affect utterances.

Vocal Folds In Motion the formative work that developed into the Visual Voice project (Video Piece)

RECORDINGS & MUSIC SCORES

Instrumental

Brass Quintets - Three works for brass quintet from ‘Used To Be Slime’ - published by Wirripang

solo piano 3 Audio CD with music book, piano recording by Sally Mays
1) The Jazz Cat 2) The Breeze & You 3) The Finish Fish 4) Fantasie
5) My Budgie’s Got The Swinin’ Cagen Blues 6) Brewing 7) Jivin’ Shuffle
8) Mambo With A Mullet 9) Bring Back Da Ba Ba Du Ah Ba Da - published by Wirripang

solo piano 2 - Audio CD with music book, piano recording by Sally Mays 1) Clown Dance II 2) Daydream Dancer 3) Non Ti Brusha 4) Roman Aqueduct 5) Shopping for Shoes 6) Through Early Morning Light I See 7) Try 'n' Tell 'er. Book and CD published by Wirripang

solo piano 1 - Audio CD with music book, piano recording by Sally Mays 1) Stilt Dance 2) Almost Had The Blues 3) View From A Garden Shed  4) Not Much Changes 5) A Simple Song 6) Once I was Crazy Now I’m Just Mad 7) The Crucifixion Blues 8) Red Ted.  Book and CD published by

From a Bridge of Dreams Audio CD compilation - includes the flute solo work ‘Calling The Turtles In’ by Frank Millward published by Wirripang

solo piano CD Recording (2012 release)

Tracks:
1 Stilt Dance
2 Almost Had the Blues
3 View From a Garden Shed
4 Not Much Changes
5 A Simple Song
6 Once I Was Crazy
7 The Crucifixion Blues
8 Red Ted
9 Clown Dance 2
10 Daydream Dancer
11 In Decision
12 Non ti Brucia
13 Roman Aqueduct
14 Shopping for Shoes
15 Through Early Morning Fog I See
16 Try 'n' Tell 'er

Terror Eyes
For 2 Pianos, 2 Saxophones, 2 Percussion, 2 Singers. Duration: 3 mins

Bertinoro
A Latin piece for small ensemble - Duration: 4 mins

Arrangements
o I Get Along Without You Very Well (Score)
o Crazy (Score)
o Body and Soul (Score)
o Roses of Picardy for Soprano, Tenor & String Quartet (Score)
o The Children’s Home for Soprano, Tenor & String Quartet (Score)
o Come Into The Garden Maud for Brass Quintet &/or String Quartet (Score)

VOCAL

Songbook 1 – Book of five songs for solo voice and piano - words and music by Frank Millward published by Wirripang

Songbook 2 – Book of five songs for solo voice and piano - words by Lisa Gasteen, music by Frank Millward published by Wirripang

From Dining With Alice
For Soloists, Choir & Chamber Ensemble
1 The Spider & The Fly for SATB & Chamber Orchestra
2 Mad Hatters Song for Baritone & Chamber Orchestra
3 White Rabbit Solo for Actor (Text piece)
4 I'm A Little Toothbrush for Baritone & Chamber Orchestra
5 The Duchess Aria With Chorus for Sop, Choir & Chamber Orchestra
6 Alice’s Argument for SATB & Chamber Orchestra
7 Alice’s Common Sense Song for Child’s voice & Chamber Orchestra

From Senseless - An Opera.
Arias for Soprano and Piano
a) ‘Slashway’
b) ‘The Queens Aria’
c) ‘In The Springtime’

From Vulture Culture
1) Full Score for Soloists, S.A.T.B. & Orchestra
2) The Songs for S.A.T.B. & Orchestra
3) Calling In The Turtles for Solo Flute

From Brightside Suite
1) Full Score for S.A.T.B. & Piano
2) The Suite for S.A.T.B. & Pian

Chiaro Scuro An Opera
Full Score for Soprano, Baritone, Actor, Dancer and Chamber Ensemble

Other Songs
for voice & Piano
o See Hear – Duet for Sop & Mezzo (Score)
o Frau Freud (Score)
o My Room (Score)

Jerusalem
for Soprano, Choir & Brass Band

Noiseworks - Love Vs Money (Arranger)