Music
2007
Aquamarine Project
Commissions and discreet projects inspired by the Great Barrier Reef and its peoples. Supported by The Christensen Fund, Palo Alto, California.
2005
Chamber Concerto
Australia Council Commission featuring Slava Grigoryan and the Southern Cross Soloists (in progress).
2003-2004
Composer in Residence
Composer in residence with Melbourne Youth Music. Works composed - Transmigrations 1 for Orchestra, Three Australian Folksongs (arrangements for S/A/Baritone Choir), All the Bridges Rusting for Orchestra.
2002-2004
Afterimage
Slava Grigoryan Plays the Music of Shaun Rigney
CD/SACD recording project for ABC Classics, featuring the guitar concerto Lapis Lazuli, the quintet The Garden of Forking Paths, as well as solos and a duet. Featuring Slava Grigoryan, soloist. Shaun Rigney, composer and supervising producer.
2001-2002
The Garden of Forking Paths (Guitar Quintet)
Commissioned by Deputy Chair of Musica Viva Australia Julian Burnside QC. Premiere performance with the Flinders Quartet and Slava Grigoryan, guitar, at fortyfivedownstairs, July 23 2002.
Einheitszeit
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Premiere performance in the version for electronic piano and 20 virtual pianos, May 30 2002, Ian Potter Museum of Art. Michael Kieran Harvey, electronic piano. Supported by Arts Victoria and ABC Classic FM.
2001
Circadia
Music for guitar, electronics, and live exhibits. Forest Gallery, Melbourne Museum March 2001. Recorded by ABC Classic FM. Supported by Arts Victoria, ABC Classic FM and the Melbourne Museum.
Homage to Eric Satie
Music for Chamber Orchestra. Premiere performance April 2001 with Ensamble Rosario, Argentina.
1999
Iphigenia in Aulis
Music composed and performed for the UNSW production of Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides. Directed by Madeleine Blackwell.
Halifax FP
Love theme for Halifax episode Swimming With Sharks. Program producers Simpson Le Mesurier. Music producer Simon Polinski. Composed and performed by Shaun Rigney.
1997
Seabound
Music for animation of the same name by Donna Kendrigan. Awarded Children’s Television Foundation Best Animation 1997. Nominated for Best Sound. Winner Best Sound (Shaun Rigney and Richard Girvan), 1998 Watch My Shorts Film Festival, Melbourne University. Nominated 1998 AFI Awards Best Short Animation.
1995-1996
Girasol, Sonata in E Major, Nocturnes 1&2, 10 Coastal Sketches
Commissioned by, and recorded for broadcast on New Music Australia, ABC Classic FM. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Jochen Schubert, guitar, and Shaun Rigney, guitar. Produced by Shaun Rigney and Lydia Warren.
1993
Fanfare for Brass and Percussion
Premiere performance 1993 by the Angelo Bearpark Brass Ensemble, Monash University.
Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place
Arrangement for mixed choir of a fisherman’s hymn from the Isle of Man. Recorded for use in Shaun Rigney’s play Pope Joan (1996). Used also in Distant Stations.
1992
Wetland
Music for Guitar, Electronics and Environmental Sounds. Commissioned by the Victorian Department of Conservation and Environment. Available on CD in Australia and internationally through Terra Australia Records (ABC/EMI/UNIVERSAL). Selected as exhibition music for the World Wildlife Fund Exhibition, Calcutta, 1995. Composed, produced and performed by Shaun Rigney.
1985-1990
Lapis Lazuli
Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra. Premiere performance 1992. Jochen Schubert, soloist; André de Quadros, conductor. With the New Monash Orchestra. Revised 1995.
1983
Stranger in the House
Music for Theatre. Directed by Jean-Pierre Mignon, Anthill Theatre.
Audio Art (including spoken word) (Top)
2005
Rain Steam and Speed
Audio artwork commissioned by ABC Classic FM. Premiere broadcast May 2005.
2004
A Portrait of the Air
Audio artwork commissioned by ABC Classic FM. Premiere broadcast April 2004.
2002
The Plover
Audio artwork commissioned by ABC Classic FM. Premiere broadcast November 11 2002.
2000
In Darkness and In Light
Audio artwork commissioned by The Listening Room ABC Classic FM.
1999
Voss
Incidental music to the BBC radio drama adaptation of Voss by Patrick White. Directed by Janet Whitaker.
1998-1999
In Angel Gear
Radiophonic work commissioned by The Listening Room, (ABC Classic FM). Premiere broadcast April 5 1999. Composed, written, produced and performed by Shaun Rigney, with Peter Finlay as The Driver and the DJs.
1997
The Beacons
Music, text, and electroacoustic techniques. Commissioned by The Listening Room. Premiere broadcast on ABC Classic FM in February 1998. Composed, written and produced by Shaun Rigney.
Arcana from Lost Cults Vol. 1 No. 1- The Cult of the Vapour Trail
Electroacoustic composition commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcast on The Listening Room (ABC Classic FM), JJJ Youth Network, and Radio National. Composed and produced by Shaun Rigney.
Distant Stations
Radiophonic composition commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Released on Listening Room CD Double Exposure (ABC/EMI). Premiere broadcast ABC FM May 1997. Composed, written and produced by Shaun Rigney.
1995
The Camel’s Back
Electroacoustic composition commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Premiere broadcast on The Listening Room, ABC FM, April 1996. Composed and produced by Shaun Rigney.
1993
Topology of a Phantom City
Treated found sound objects organised in symphonic form. Commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Premiere broadcast on The Listening Room, ABC FM, 1994. Selected for broadcast on Dutch National Radio as part of the European Minimal Radio Project. Australian representative 1995 international Ars Acustica forum. Broadcast internationally. Broadcast as part of The Singing Loudspeaker installation, Adelaide International Festival of the Arts, 1996. Composed and produced by Shaun Rigney.
Bells and Brakes
Included on Listening Room CD Double Exposure.
2005
Rain Steam and Speed
Audio artwork commissioned by ABC Classic FM. Premiere broadcast May 2005.
Guest Lecturer
Visiting Lecturer in Arts Administration, University of Melbourne.
2004
A Portrait of the Air
Audio artwork commissioned by ABC Classic FM. Premiere broadcast April 2004.
2002
The Plover
Audio artwork commissioned by ABC Classic FM.
2001
Guest Lecturer
Visiting Lecturer in Radio Studies, Swinburne University, Melbourne.
2000
In Darkness and In Light
Seven chromatic aphorisms for radio. Audio Artwork commissioned by The Listening Room ABC Classic FM.
1999
Guest Lecturer
Visiting Lecturer in Critical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
Guest Lecturer
Visiting Lecturer in Contemporary Music, La Salle SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.
1998 - 1999
In Angel Gear
Radio drama commissioned by ABC Classic FM.
1997
The Beacons
Suite of poems composed for the electroacoustic/musical work of the same name. Commissioned by ABC Classic FM. Premiere broadcast February 1998.
1996
Pope Joan
Two handed play. Full season performed at the Chapter House of St Paul’s Cathedral as part of the 1996 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Produced by Glass Jar Theatre Company.
1990
Blue Shift
Dramatic monologue performed at La Mama Theatre, Performing Arts Projects 1994. Conrad Constance was played by Don Munro.