This piece was selected as a winner of the NZTrio Composing Competition 2021.
The work is for Piano Trio and Fixed Media Electronics (Tape Track).

Programme Note: The Other Half is based upon the work of the same name by Fiona Clark, a collection of photographs and prints that covers Clark's injuries and recovery over the course of 22 years from 'a serious motor vehicle accident'. 
This piece takes inspiration from the frantic, personal, and traumatic identity of Clark's work. It is divided into two starkly contrasting halves, the incident and the recovery. 
Referential sounds from hospitals, emergency vehicles, destruction, and clocks are used to place the Trio within the setting of the narrative and reinforce the intensity of grief and trauma. All the while, the Trio maintains a sense of humanity, which relies upon — but lives separate to — the cold and industrial sounds of machinery and medical equipment.