Composers: David T Little Compositions: Agency Performers: American Contemporary Music Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion, Julian Day, Andrew McKenna Lee Catalogue Number: NEW AMSTERDAM NWAM123

David T Little (born 1978) is an extraordinarily prolific American composer whose work typically explores political themes and often displays an interest in the nexus between classical music and rock. With Agency, Little turns his attention to government agencies, control, the withholding of information and the tension between modern technological/information-based systems of governance and indigenous modes of understanding and knowledge. For Little, this contrast is embodied perfectly by the region of central Australia that houses both the top-secret US surveillance facility Pine Gap and,...