Discography
Topology (1999)
Topology’s first CD features originals (composed by Robert Davidson and Tom Adeney).
Airwaves (2000)
This project is a mammoth look back over 100 years of radio broadcasts, taking some of our favourite key moments and making music from the speech’s inherent melody. The voices of Clinton, George H. Bush, Einstein, Freud, Martin Luther King, Hitler, Churchill, Gandhi, FDR, Chamberlain, Princess Elizabeth, Menzies, Whitlam, Earhardt, Malcolm X, Edward VIII and many, many others are transformed into song. Click the download button for a full transcript of the album.
Perpetual Motion Machine (2003)
Topology’s second album features Australian music juxtaposed with leading works by British and American composers.
Future Tense with Full Fathom Five (2004)
Topology’s cinematically dramatic instrumental/electronic collaboration with Full Fathom Five which was also used as the soundtrack for French film, ‘The Burial’.
Video Circus DVD (2007)
Video music compositions by Robert Davidson, Christine McCombe, Carla Thackrah and Richard Vella
Scat with Tim Brady (2007)
A collection of music by Canadian electric guitarist/composer Tim Brady
Big Decisions (2009)
Big Decisions features Rob Davidson’s speech-melody piece using the spoken voices of Gough Whitlam, Sir John Kerr, Malcolm Fraser and other players in Australia’s biggest political event – the 1975 Dismissal of the government. The CD also features some of Topology’s most requested music, including John Babbage’s “Chop Chop”, Paul Stanhope’s driving “Throbology” (also known as “Throb”) and Bernard Hoey’s “I Am Petrified”
Healthy with Misinterprotato (2010)
The debut collaborative album with jazz trio Misinterprotato.
Difference Engine (2011)
Topology’s saxophonist John Babbage may just be related to the inventor of the computer, Charles Babbage. Called “Difference Engines”, Charles Babbage’s mechanical computers were never actually completed in his lifetime, possibly in part due to his “special” personality. It wasn’t till his 1820s designs were made into working devices in 1989 by the London Science Museum that his work was entirely vindicated.
Using notes and rhythms in place of gears and wheels, for the title track, John Babbage has made music from the idea of these mechanical computers. As bassist Robert Davidson explains, it’s “music inspired by and mimicking mechanical computers but finding flaws and humanity in the process”.