Peekaboo is all about the pleasure of anticipation, everyone loves a surprise. All children on earth enjoy peekaboo, why not children on other planets?
This is a little conceptual sound art piece made as a submission to the Forever Now project. My page there is:
This is a rough mix of some music I’ve made for a section of ‘Infundibular’, a dance show coming up at Dancehouse as part of Melbourne Fringe 2014.
Introducing Breezeway, a synthy pop project I’m saving up for when I finish the PhD.
This is a piece I made for Birrarung Marr’s Federation Bells installation. It makes use of the dynamic range made available by the recent refurbishment of the bells. This is an early demo version using samples of the bells. It has been played several times on the bells however circumstances haven’t permitted a higher quality recording (my schedule hasn’t allowed me to get out to the installation with a recorder when it’s been playing).
When making the piece I was trying to capture and compose out from my favourite bell-related sound: when a carillon collapses into dense cascades of notes.
Go here to listen to PBS’s archive of the Morrison’s performance on Fang It! on Thursday May 10.
We begin playing at about 31 or 32 minutes in.
I don’t know how long PBS are going to keep this available, I guess it depends on the size of their server. In the meantime enjoy!
By the way if you’ve ever wondered what I sound like playing guitar with the flu…that’s what I sound like.
Recording of my mid-year Honours recital New Sounds Above Ground, featuring: Sarah Coghlan – Violin Aviva Endean – Clarinet Rebecca Lane – Flute Luke Paulding – Piano Jess Voigt – Soprano Saxophone and myself on Electric Guitar and live electronics performing my new piece Sticks & Stones, Bricks & Bones. Apologies for the low bitrate, my server didn’t like how big the file was at higher res. newsounds flyer
Recording of Dreaming of Trees from Forest Collective’s “Bois” event.
Performed by:
Jessica-Michelle Fotinos – Harp
Evan Lawson – Alto Recorder
Justina Lui – Violin
Vilan Mai – Clarinet
Trevor Maitland – Tenor Voice
Jennifer Mills – ‘Cello
Holly Sharpe – Soprano Voice
and Exaudi Youth Choir
1. If monsters are common…
2. Narcissus (excerpt)
3. Orbits
4. Narcissus (excerpt) – echo
5. 2 (excerpt)
This last Friday as part of our final assessment for our arranging subject at VCAM we had some big band charts played by the Victorian Police Band. This is my pseudo-concession to commercial band writing, filtered through a recent nostalgia for Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus. Conducted by Daryl McKenzie.
FAT LIP
It’s amazing what the acoustics of a particular room can do to mutate the natural sound of instruments, aside from the obvious distortion resulting from my little recording device being too close to a very loud band you’ll notice that the trumpets seem to get swallowed up in the background, the opposite of what one would expect, consistently overpowered even by the saxes. So in short, the acoustic of the room where this was recorded was weird in the extreme.
This was a dance project I worked on in 2008 with choreographer Caley O’Neill as part of the completion of her Masters Degree at VCA. The music explores space and a kind of lyrical minimalism, using computer editing to tease a short excerpt of piano improvisation into a 25 minute theme and variations. Both the dance and the sound were very much inspired by the words of Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas, in this instance largely by his book The House in the Dark which describes Norway’s involvement in World War II, in particular depicting the goings on in a country house during wartime using it as a metaphor for the country as a whole.
Audio sample
Caley’s words about the piece are below…
Program Notes
This is Where They Are is an installation piece that explores the writing of Tarjei Vesaas. A Norwegian writer with a gift for detail, his novel The House in the Dark has been the stimulant for this work. Written during the war, its controversial words saw it buried in a zinc box for 5 years until it publishing in 1947. Filled with deranged yet fascinating characters this work explores the many physical traits they posses and their inhabiting of the house.
This year has taken me on an amazing journey, on which I have been lucky enough to discover the essence of my own art making. Here I search to find a deeper more embodied performative state in which thick physical environments are created. Through a deeply investigated exploration of improvisation I have tried to create an immersive and intricate physical style that is both interesting and immersive.
Derrida talks of our societies obsession with sense making. However it is here that I ask you to do no such thing. Sit and watch, listen and feel, I ask that you let your imagination do the rest.
I know only how this work is structured…..not what it is about.
Created By: Caley O’Neill
Choreographer – Caley O’Neill in collaboration with the performers
Performers – Alex O’Neill-King, Susan Van Den Ham and Jessica Devereux
Costume and Set Design – Emily Collett and Caley O’Neill
Composer – Camille Robinson
Lighting Design – Alexandre Malta and Caley O’Neill
Camille Robinson 