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The Great Knot

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The Great Knot (2011)

The piece, The Great Knot, is based on the migratory patterns of the bird, the Great Knot. This species breeds in Siberia in the summer but heads to Australia and Southern Asia during the northern winter. (The Great Knot is also sometimes vagrant in Europe, although whether this is by accident or providence, one cannot be sure.) What is also for us a long-haul flight, the bird makes the journey with only one stopover. The Great Knot is now considered vulnerable as a species due to a combination of factors, not only in part due to the reclamation of the bird’s stopover grounds between Siberia and the South Seas (namely, mud flats in South Korea). Furthermore, given its strange ‘international’ status, that is its territory is not fixed to any specific nation state, the bird is more difficult to protect. In this manner, Great Knots are birds without passports, so to speak, and are without anywhere to land. The piece, The Great Knot, attempts to approach the event horizon of the species’ extinction with a kind of perverted joy. It does this if not to bring about some minor attention to these international travelers, then at least to attempt to suspend the tragedy attached with the demise of these birds by using their flight paths as a model for music composition (namely, ‘how to get from A to B.’)

The Great Knot is dedicated to Speak Percussion for whom it was written. First performance by Speak Percussion at Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre Melbourne, April 16, 2011.

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from context, released December 1, 2017
Composer: Thomas Meadowcroft

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