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Cathy Milliken: Schifrorl

from After Julia [studio album] by Decibel

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Shifrorl is a reflection on leadership, the title itself being a contraction of “She-for-all.” Shifrorl begins with simple musical cells that suggest the finality of a funeral bugle call and Julia Gillard’s relating of Paul Keating’s statement to her after losing the leadership ballot, “We all get taken out in a box, Love.” Later entries by the piano and percussion suggest calculated oppositional forces, which persist then later die away as the focus centers on a more personal dialogue between flute and percussion. The work has three possible endings, of which the ensemble must choose one. I wish my piece to be understood as my reflection on leadership generally, but also particularly on Julia Gillard’s leadership, her persistence and courage and my wish to pay tribute to her and to her continuing work. Shifafutcha.

Cathy Milliken completed her music degree in Australia majoring in performance (piano and oboe) and continued her studies in Europe with Heinz Holliger as well as completing her studies in the Dalcroze Method of teaching music. As a founder member of the Ensemble Modern, Germany, she has worked with leading composers and conductors of this century including Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Frank Zappa, György Ligeti, and Karlheinz Stockhausen (who produced her performance of Spiral on CD - Stockhausen Verlag nr. 45). She has composed for theatre, opera, radio, film and created installations and received commissions from the Berliner Staatsoper, Staatstheatre in Darmstadt, South Bank Centre London, the ZKM (Centre for New Media) Karlsruhe, The Experimental electronic Studio of Freiburg, as well as the CCMIX (enakis) Centre in Paris. Awards include “Prix Marulic.” She was Director of Education for the Berlin Philharmonic from 2006-2012 and is now on the creative advisory team for the Münchener Biennale Festival. She lives in Berlin, sharing her time between composing, performing and directing international creative participatory projects.

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from After Julia [studio album], track released September 4, 2023
Recorded by both Stuart James and Hadyn Buxton, live telematically between Soundfield Perth and Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance Digital Hub at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia during the COVID19 lockdowns. Mixed by Stuart James.

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