Scream Star
Arts House, 2022

A triptych featuring leading compositional voices in the experimental and conceptual music world, responding to all-too-familiar tropes of the live music and visuals format.

“Scream Star is many things: absurd and funny, moving and creative, precise and demanding. It is, in short, seriously good music-making. It is performance art and theatre, and new music-making at its finest.” – Limelight

Before Nightfall #12 - Hyenas
Melbourne International Film Festival, 2020

Before Nightfall #12 was a collaboration with Senegalese-born, Melbourne-based artist Lamine Sonko. The music was inspired by an adaptation of the famous Senegalese film Hyenas, restored in 2018.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, all artists worked across one day, in isolation. Their music was recorded and mixed and the final presentation was offered online as part of MIFF 68 1/2.

Liza Lim - Atlas of the Sky
Melbourne Recital Centre, 2018

Atlas of the Sky is a 70-minute work of dramatic and ritualistic power by acclaimed Australian composer Liza Lim. Written for solo soprano, three percussion soloists and a 20 person 'crowd'. It combines driving rhythms with swarming percussion and vocal sounds from 24 on-stage of performers.

Atlas of the Sky tells stories about the stars, the power of crowds and changing constellations of memory.

Gemma Peacocke - Sky-Fields
2020, recorded 2022

“Tolkien uses the term "sky-fields" once in Lord of the Rings, in the third volume, Return of the Kings:

'It is all dark, but it is not all night,' said Ghân. 'When Sun comes we feel her, even when she is hidden. Already she climbs over East-mountains. It is the opening of day in the sky-fields.'

Even when we cannot see it, there is hope.”
- Gemma Peacocke

Jessie Marino - Rot Blau
2009, recorded 2022

Jessie Marino is a composer, performer, and media artist from Long Island, New York. Her work explores the repetition inside common activities, ritualistic absurdities, and uncovering nostalgic technologies. Marino’s interdisciplinary compositional works often ask performers to use their bodies— precisely articulated gestures, facial expressions, and quotidian physical movements—both as an alternative and a complement to musical sounds.

Samuel Smith - Species
2018, recorded 2022

'species' gathers together a collection of grief-soaked sonic artifacts that are assembled to create an austere and fragile ecology.

Reflecting on species loss and the experience of grief, 'species' finds an analogue to the uncanny experience of a changed environment in the denaturing and degrading of familiar sounds.