robert lloyd bhakti (5.22) measure against measure (5.37) waves (7.30) there is nothing but everything (6.33) weaving (6.45) starting from zero (5.33) During the 1970s, I started writing new music for vibraphones, pianos, percussion and keyboards. This early music grew from a happy accident: creating melodic lines on the vibraphone in 4/4 and then walking down the street thinking of another line which turned out to be in 3/4. When I recorded them together on my 4-track tape recorder I loved the sound of 2 different lines going in and out of synch with each other. This going in and out of synch music was the beginning of my composing style and inspired me to write Bhakti and keep writing and performing this new music with my own ensemble. In the early 1980s Jaroslav Kovaricek at ABC FM in Adelaide recorded and produced Waves, Weaving, Bhakti, Measure against Measure, Sticks and Whirling Dance for radio airplay. I have included 4 of these compositions here. Throughout the 1980s and 90s I kept working with my ensemble developing further, cyclic rythmic systems, isometric patterning and meter against meter music eventually creating longer and longer lines of more emotional depth. From this period came Starting from Zero for 2 pianos and vibraphone and the solo piano work There is Nothing but Everything. These compositions show the beginning of a way of composing that was very different from what was going on around me musically at the time. The challenge was to find my own musical voice working intuitively with the beauty of these natural wood, metal, skin and hammered string sounds. The music I am writing now for voices, woodwinds and ensemble started from this limited yet rich palette. I had no idea when I wrote Bhakti in 1973 where my music would progress to - from the viewpoint of 2001 it all seems many happy accidents. robert lloyd 2001 "Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul" - Andrei Tarkovsky robert lloyd - robert lloyd can be purchased from the Australian Music Centre Level 4, The Arts Exchange, 18 Hickson Road, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW, Australia Ph: +61-2-9247 4677 Fax: +61-2-9241 2873 Website: www.amcoz.com.au Email: info@amcoz.com.au