Drawing Firewheels

For solo piano and toy piano (one player), c.5'50
This works was inspired by a drawing of the Australian rainforest tree, Stenocarpus sinatus (Firewheel Tree), with its distinctive wheel-like inflorescences and mature fruits and seeds,  shaped this work, the sound gestures and the sustain pedal as "sound brush" colouring specified notes and note groups. 
Composed 2016

Recorded on New Music for Multiple Keyboards (Track 11 Disc One) CD 9Wirr 0899 is available online

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