Australian Composers Orchestral Forum provides emerging composers the opportunity to work with a professional symphony orchestra
ACOF 2002 Participant - Freeman McGrath
Freeman McGrath's Session, was a composition written for ACOF 2002.
...Sitting beyond the peaking break, we wait silently for waves that hurtle us across exhilarating rides, and then leave us stranded in the impact zone...
Program Notes - Session
Swell rolls in from the sea, standing taller.
Paddle for the peak, take-off
Free-fall into the drop
Carving bottom turn
Snapping re-entry, exploding the glassy lip
Peeling off into churning eddies of oxygen and ocean
Dumped
Disorientated
Pressed onto the sandy bottom...
Sitting beyond the peaking break, we wait silently for waves that hurtle us across exhilarating rides, and then leave us stranded in the impact zone. Suddenly survival hangs in the balance of timing, fitness, and the merciless chaos of the surf.
