Blair returns to the UK each year in a series of live performances alongside his very own Warwick Blair Ensemble (WBE) featuring global and UK musicians.
2024
Silent [limited edition one-off artwork]
(11 x 10 inch vinyl dub plates)Waving (11’) elec
Giving And Receiving Of The Light (12’) elec
Morning Star Rise (60’) elec
Waves (10’) elec
Wave (11’) elec
Daughter (13’) elec
Yellow (28’) elec
2023
Taboo #4 - Salvation Drift (58’) elec
Voice Of God #1 - Human (42’) 4 perc and elec
Sunset Kiss Darkness Come (5’) orch
David Williamson (10’) elec
New World Maniac [opera in four scenes] (60’) voice and elec text Blair
Groove (20’) elec
2022
Taboo #1 - Chant (22’) str quartet, elec
Taboo #2 - The Moon (24’) str quartet, elec
Taboo #3 - Birds (32’) elec
Ritual #3 - Summer (61’) str quartet, elec
Ritual #4 - Snow (73’) str quartet, elec
The Bell Tolls For Thee (5’) orch
2021
Ritual #1 - Darkness (71’) str quartet, elec
Ritual #2 - The Kiss (50’) str quartet, elec
Union (43′) for Warwick Blair [male voice & electronics] text Blair, Kandinsky
The Picture Project (varies) video, elec
Submerged Night (8′) extensible for orch
Lull (4′) extensible for cello, pno
Lull (3′) extensible for cello
Lull (4′) extensible for pno
Lull (4′) extensible for cello, choir, pno
Lull (4′) extensible for str quartet
2020
Intimacy (33′) for Warwick Blair [male voice & electronics]
The Earth Began To Heal (11’) vn, tru, harp, 2 perc, any number of performers, elec
Shenker Hymns (47’) sop, str orch, elec text Kandinsky
Protest (4′) extensible for bs drum, elec
2019
Ancestors (10’) video, adult speaker, taonga puoro, ‘found’ instruments (musical and non-musical), elec
Submerged Night (8′) extensible for sop, str orch, elec
The Children Have No Bodies (10’) child speaker, taonga puoro, ‘found’ instruments (musical and non-musical), elec
She (10′) vn, orch, elec
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story (10’) sop, bass, any number of performers, elec
Death (11′) elec
Joy (tūī) [in memoriam my mother, Joy Blair] (12′) elec
Protest (4′) extensible for pūrerehua, elec
2018
Whakaahua (Transformation) (10’) extensible for optional sop, orch, elec
Whakaahua (Transformation) (5’) extensible for optional sop, orch, elec
Whanau (Family) (19’) any number of performers, elec
Āngi (Air) (18’) any number of performers, elec
Pūrerehua (Moth) (16’) any number of performers, elec
2017
Lull (8′) extensible for cello, pno, elec
School of Velocity [dedicated to John Rimmer] (8′) pno, elec
Piano Traders (varies) any no. of pianos
Visible Invisible primary (varies) performers, DJ
Visible Invisible book 1 (91′) 2 keyboards, perc, elec, DJ
Visible Invisible book 2 (146′) voice, DJ
2016
Melusine (28′) extensible for sop, elec
Multitrack (5′) [Warwick Blair & Rupert Carey] 10 turntables
Feet of Clay [Kingston University] 3 group pieces
2015
Melusine (28′) extensible for sop, orch, elec
Harp from Accordion (Edmund Spacek remix 1) (2′) elec
Harp from Accordion (Edmund Spacek remix 2) (4′) elec
2014
Etuden (21′) [dedicated to Gilius van Bergeijk] sop, pno, elec
2013
Lieder (smooth version) (41′) baritone, pno, elec
Lieder (rough version) (25′) elec
Electric (aka State of Being) (88′) solo voice (S, Mezzo, 2 Baritone), wind (picc/fl/ten sax/bar sax), fret (kalimba/oud/mand/acgt/elgt), kyb (org/bskyb/elecpno/hpschrd), perc, elec
2009
Stars (24 hours) female voice, elec
2006
Accordion (51′) female voice, male voice, tru, marimba, 3 perc, harp, elecgt, pno, bskyb or bsgt, elec
2003
Improvised Performance Warwick Blair & Stephen Small
1998
Electric Karen Walker fashion show (07′) elec
1996
Begin mini album by glory box [Warwick Blair & Sara Parry] elec
1990
Call (04′) orch (2+1 2 2 2+1/4 2 3 1/timp 2 perc/str)
Group Piece Rangitoto College any no.
1989
Pinapi e Meangiti: The Good Seeds Are So Small (22′) orch (2 0 2 0 1 sax/0 1 2 0/2 perc bsgt SSAATB soloists 2 kyb/str 4tet) text Cook Is.
1987
Encore fl, cl, vn, pno
Etude in 2 movs (07′) orch (2+2 2 2 2/2 1 1 1 btro or tub/perc pno/str)
Finale (07′) pno, elec
Out Loud SAT soloists & SSAATTBB choir
Distanced (15′) elec
UPIC (02′) elec
1986
Opening/Closing 3 tro, tub
Quiet Piece (02′) perc
Peace (varies) any no.
Without (17′) str. orch text Spencer
6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 by Schoenberg (07′) orch (2+1 2 2+1 2/2 1 3 0/2 perc harp/str)
Lie With Me (09′) S solo & optional glock text Beer
3 Variations on Ross Careys Piece for Piano Solo (04′) elec
Big Jesus Trash Can (03′) elec
Across (12′) elec
1985
Group Piece 1985 Cambridge any no.
Euphoria (10′) 5 perc
We Are Us school Piece (03′) S solo, SAATTBB choir text Haiku
A Corruption of Innocence (13′) cl, elec sounds text Thomas
Ambience (varies) any no.
Natyam (17′) T solo, fl, cello, pno, perc text Sanskrit
Evening (06′) A solo, fl, pno, db, 2 perc text Staff
Rain for film (05′) elec
Variations on Freds Tune from Bachs Musical Offering (10′) elec
Dream State (15′) elec
1984
Epitaph for 1984″ 4 vocal groups text Orwell
Group Piece Cambridge
What Is Cambridge All About? (varies) 6 perf
Rising/Falling (varies) 2 tru, 2 tro, 2 perc
Symphony 1″ (08′) vn, va, pno
Symphony 2″ (06′) A solo, cello text Sanskrit
Contrast of Metre ob, cl
Motor Rhythm xylo, 2 pno
Plainsong and Isorhythm vn, tru, pno
3 Short Pieces pno
Fanfare 2 tru
Melody fl
Continue pno
Piece vn
We (03′) amplified voice & cymbal, elgt
-phony orch (4+1 3 4+1 3+1/4 3 3 1/4 perc/str 10 10 8 8 6)
Mozart Is Dead (varies) any no.
Poem (03′) B solo & tamtam, 4 perc, 1 db text Sanskrit
The Party Is (02′) elec
Vox (04′) elec
1983
3 Variations fl, pno
Rain Chant (04′) SSAATTBB choir
Work For Douglas (11′) 2 vn, pno
M.A. fl
1982
Tunnel Beach A solo, ob, tro, vn, 1 perc, choir, 1 kyb, str, elec text Baxter
Phylo/sophic Statement (varies) any no.
Te Awamutu Primary School Song voice, pno
Their Freckles Tell Us Stories ob, elec text Cruz
1981
The Sea A solo, pno text Dallas
Nativity espressivo (02′) A solo, SATB choir text Sasson
1980
Spring Haze an Air in 2 movs (07′) pno
Prelude pno
1979
Satirical Games a March vn, pno
The Sea S solo, pno text Dallas