The Possible Stories of Harry Power

for three improvising instruments, a.m. radio and computerised score generator. Harry Power was a bushranger in Victoria who is supposed to have ‘trained’ Ned Kelly in his criminal ways. There are many versions of how Ned Kelly came to be who he was. This piece is about versions. The written word (and note) is taken as fact, repeated throughout history. The oral story (or improvisation) is often expected to change as it passes though those who listen and retell it. When oral stories are written down in some point of history, they are likely to be different than how they started. In this work, there are a number of versions: composer versions, computer versions, player versions and combinations of all three. Written, listened to and ‘spoken’ versions. Pitch and volume are proportional, and the computer creates a score for the performers from the very performance of the composers score, altered by parameters provided by the composer. The computer generates 2 scores bookended by the composers scores. The three parts represent Power, Kelly and Kelly’s mother, who introduced Kelly to Power. They meet, come together and move apart. The how and when of these movements are only partially documented historically. My first and last scores are two maps I made of these peoples movements in relation to each other in time. Performances Short Shorts WAAPA 2010 Decibel: Australiasian Computer Music Conference, Canberra, July 2010. Australasian Musicological Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand July 2010本作品为三件即兴演奏乐器、调幅广播（AM radio）及计算机化乐谱生成器而作。哈利·鲍尔（Harry Power）是维多利亚州的丛林劫匪，据传曾“教唆”内德·凯利（Ned Kelly）走上犯罪道路。关于内德·凯利何以成为后世熟知的形象，流传着诸多不同版本的叙事，本作品正是围绕这些版本展开。 书面文字（与乐谱音符）被视作既定史实，在历史进程中不断被复刻沿用；而口头叙事（或即兴演绎）往往会在经由听众聆听、转述的传播过程中发生流变。当口头叙事在历史的某一节点被笔录成文时，其原貌大概率已与初始形态大相径庭。 本作品包含多种演绎版本：作曲家版本、计算机生成版本、演奏者版本，以及三者的混合版本；涵盖书面、聆听与"口述"三类形式。音高与音量呈比例关联，计算机将基于作曲家初始乐谱的实际演奏效果，结合作曲家设定的参数进行调整，为演奏者生成专属演奏乐谱。计算机将以作曲家的首尾两份乐谱为边界，生成两段中间乐谱。 作品的三个声部分别对应鲍尔、凯利，以及将凯利引荐给鲍尔的凯利之母。三者间会经历相遇、聚合与分离的过程，而这些互动的具体时机与方式，在历史记载中仅留有部分线索。 我的首尾两份乐谱，是我绘制的两张关系图谱，呈现了这三人在时间维度上的彼此互动轨迹。 演出信息：2010年，西澳表演艺术学院（WAAPA）《Short Shorts》展演；2010年7月，堪培拉澳大利亚计算机音乐会议（Decibel: Australasian Computer Music Conference）；2010年7月，新西兰达尼丁澳大利亚音乐学学术会议