Description
Video
Mata-Au by Salina Fisher (AWE Festival 2021 Composer in Residence)
Benjamin Baker - violin (AWE Artistic Director)
Matthew Lipman - viola
Alexander Hersh - cello
Duration
8 min
Commissioner
Commissioned by At the World's Edge Festival
Instrumentation
violin, viola, cello
Program Notes
Mata-Au, the Māori name of the Clutha River, means ‘surface current’. In Japanese, the homophonous phrase ‘また逢う’ (mata-au) means ‘to meet again’.The water dances and swirls as it connects places and people. It flows and gushes with forward momentum and anticipation. In writing this piece I was also inspired by ‘spring’, both as the season of its premiere, and as a bubbling source of water.
–Salina Fisher