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textures:eora

The first work in a series exploring the close-up visual and sonic language of human made environments. I've been thinking for a long time about what cities look like when you get very close — the worn, the tired, the optimistic, the shadow. The textures we move past every day without really seeing. textures:eora began there, with photographs of Sydney's built surfaces, and grew into a question about what those surfaces might sound like if you stayed and mediated with them.

The melodic language draws on plainchant as a kind of ritual form. Chant was always about repetition as devotion, about the voice (or here, the bow) returning again and again to something until it opens.

textures:eora is the first in a series — one work for each Australian state, each beginning with close-up photography of a city's surface, each asking what ritual might sound like in that place.

performed by : Isaac Gunnoo

recorded by: David Collins at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne

Supernovæ

This piece was written for Ensemble Offspring as part of their Hatched Composer Academy (2023).

Supernovæ explores the intricate parallel between the complexity and fragility of human relationships and the molecules that populate vast universes. This piece offers space for contemplation on the interconnectedness of our lives with one another. Supernovae are spectacular celestial events that mark the end of massive stars, in the vacuum of space, as visually spectacular, silent events. They release an extraordinary amount of energy and contribute to the formation of new stars, planets, and ultimately life itself.

Vignettes
I. vacuum

II. tapestry/departing

III. organic revolutions

IV. goodbye, red giants

V. i still think about you (sometimes but not always)

ESOTERIC

ESOTERIC is an avant garde performance work rooted in climate change effects of a distant future and the societal significance of the natural world, this audio-visual experience considers our place in the ecosystem and the fleeting power we have to affect it. Fundamentally, ESOTERIC is a multi sensory experience of all that will be left of the natural world if indifference ensues. Experience more here.

This work was created and performed with support from Creative Australia (2021).