PORTFOLIO OF SELECTED WORKS

Cover Me

This piece was commissioned by Ensemble Goldentree for their concert ‘Con Feminine’ which boasted an all women programme. I wanted to create a piece during which people can explore their own emotions, rather than the music prescribing a set of emotions.

This piece pays homage to Björk. One of the first musicians that made me feel as a women, that I was able to be self-sufficient in my own art form. Björk has an independent and bold aesthetic. Her compositions are consistently strong, yet emotionally honest. I find both her carelessness about the reception of her aesthetic and her artistic self-sufficiency absolutely empowering and wanted to embody this in my piece.

ESOTERIC: an experimental opera in one act

Rooted in the contemplation of 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.

Contemporary composer and creative Jessica Lindsay Smith, working in collaboration with electronic visual artist Rachael Archibald and movement artist Arabella Frahn-Starkie, alongside a cast of improvising musicians present this multidisciplinary work that explores movement, improvisation and dramatic story-telling in a shifting, projected space. ESOTERIC is a meditative, textural, and otherworldly exploration of our future.