Bolleter, Ross (19 results)

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Condition: Like New. Never used! Light wear to corners/edges from shelving. Wholesale pricing available via Amazon business.Never used! Light wear to corners/edges from shelving.

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Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

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Paperback. Condition: New.

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First printing. Spiral bound octavo paperback; red covers with b&w photographic illustrations. No CD. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

1st Edition. Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt title upper board and spine, dustjacket, pp 60. Presentation copy, signed by the author. Dustjacket lightly creased along top edge. Fine condition in near-fine d.j. Collection of poetry by the Western Australian composer and musician.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

3rd edition. Tasmanian Edition. Octavo, spiral bound wtaps, colour photographs, pp 76, slight rubbing to front. Presentation inscription by the author. Small marks front cover. Very good condition. The stories behind Perth composer Ross Bolleter's Ruined Pianos project. "The only unchanging law is the law of change. Ruins are what remain. A piano judiciously left in the open and exposed to all weathers will ruin. All that fine nineteenth-century European craftsmanship, all the damp and unrequited loves of Schumann, Brahms and Chopin dry out, and degrade to a heap of rotten wood and rusting wire. The piano returns to aboriginality, goes back to the earth. Plucking the bass strings on an ancient weathered piano whose sound board is cracked wide open can produce astonishing pitch bends, then cataclysmic shuddering. Sounds which would be suppressed in conventional performance are given full rein. When those arch symbols of European musical culture and cultural imperialism linger as Ruined Pianos, they sing of transience, failure and loss. They sing of all that we loved that will never come again?the loss of home, the fading away of prestige and glory. They sing the chaos at the heart of the colonial enterprise, an Australian expression of the heart of darkness?the dark heart howling its cracked anthems.".…