Commissioned by Philip Harper for the Cory Bands 2013 tour to Australia, Dreamtime
draws inspiration from Australian Aboriginal mythology. The Dreamtime
is a sacred era in which the Aborigines believe ancestral totemic (symbolic) spirits created the world. The work is heavily percussive, including narration and a pseudo-didgeridoo, created with multi-phonics in euphoniums and tubas.
The work can still be performed without multi-phonics, narration and reduced percussion.
