Barry Anderson

Michael Barrie Gordon Anderson (22 February 1935 – 27 May 1987), known as Barry Anderson,

Biography Anderson was born in Stratford, New Zealand, in 1935. His father was a civil engineer and his mother played the piano as an amateur to a high level. Anderson learned the piano and performed in New Zealand. In 1971, he began to work full-time at the South Bank Institute (later part of Morley College).

Recordings

Mask, Songs Penyeach, Sound the Tucket Sonance and the Note to Mount, Colla Voce (Continuum, CCD 1008, 1989) Electroacoustic Fanfare, ARC, Piano Piece No.1, Piano Piece No.2, Piano Piece No.3, Domingus (Continuum, CCD 1009, 1989) The Mask of Orpheus (with Harrirson Birtwistle) electronic music (NMC Recordings, NMCD050, 1998)

Works

Anderson completed around 20 works. Maui (1959-64) full-length opera based on Polynesian legends of the Pacific

Sound Frames (1964-66) for instrumental ensemble (10 players)

Songs Penyeach (1971) for mezzo-soprano, amplified violin, bass clarinet, and percussion

Piano Pieces 1,2,3 (1969-74) for piano, tape mix, and sine tone ring modulation

Topograph (1973) for 3 percussion groups, filters, and ring modulators

Synt Axis-Mix (1973) The Menace of the Flower for 8-channel tape mix

Suntame (1974) setting of Maori creation myths for a storyteller, tape mix, electronics, piano, and percussion

Make (1976 re. 1985) for solo flautist (bass, alto, and piccolo), electronic modulation, percussion, speaker, and 5 tape channels, stage and lighting schedule; text by Paul Hyland

En Face De...1 (1976) for soprano and double bass

En Face De...2 (1977) for soprano and double bass with tape delay, electronic modulation, and 4-channel tape

Colla Voce (1978) for solo soprano

Domingus (1978, BBC commission) electro-acoustic tape realization of poem cycle, Domingus by Paul Hyland

Proscenium (1978-79, rev. 1983) for solo percussion, electronic modulation, tape delay, and 2-channel tape

Sound The Tucket Sonance And The Note To Mount (1980) for solo trombone and 2-channel tape

Electro-Acoustic Fanfare (1983) for 2-channel tape

Windows (1984) for sound and vision—2-channel tape and slide projections (Adrian Bartlett)

ARC (1987) for string quartet, bass clarinet, computer-generated and processed sound tapes

Collaborations The Mask of Orpheus (Harrison Birtwistle) (1982-86) realization of the electronic music for the opera

6 realizations (1975-81) of Stockhausen's SOLO for melody instrument and feedback system: (1) for flute, (2) for double bass, (3) for voice, (4) for oboe, (5) for bass clarinet, (6) for trombone)