Concert: Town Hall, Castlemaine 160223

Proud to be independently presenting A Dread Of Voids in Castlemaine, Djaara Country. 
We are offering FREE workshops prior to the concert program from 5pm. These include:

Workshop 1: Memory in Music (Karen Heath)

5 - 545pm

This workshop will explore how memory is formed when playing an instrument, and how we draw from brain imagery, body movement, and executive memory functions to remember the music we learn.

Workshop 2: Microtonality & Tuning (Rebecca Lane / Jonathan Heilbron)

5:45 – 6:45pm

In this workshop, Rebecca Lane and Jon Heilbron reflect on their parallel practices of approaching microtonality and tuning on their instruments – with a particular focus on rational tuning/extended just intonation. Looking at pieces that have been composed for them including Catherine Lamb’s duo Muto Infinitas (2016/2018), they will present their individual and collective methods for approaching, interpreting, and performing precisely-tuned music together.

By exploring listening and performing as perceptual and relational, they will look at; their individual approaches to listening and tuning; reorienting the performer-instrument relationship; retuning their instruments (altering their geography); the ways in which psychoacoustic phenomena can teach us about tuning; different forms of notation; extended techniques and new technologies as aid.

Attendees are welcome to bring an instrument or their voice, and the second half of the workshop will be dedicated to exploring ways in which careful attention to tuning can shape our experience of sound, space, body, and time.

Workshop 3: Artistic Life as Practice Research (Jessica Aszodi)

6:45-7:30 pm

A discussion of professional practice in the life of a singer where theory and practice entwine deeply to better understand, enact and evaluate the unfolding of art-making. Using examples from the bespoke working methodologies she has devised and collaborated on from piece to piece, Jess will explain some of the ways she builds and performs the idiosyncratic embodied knowledges she has made the focus of her artistic life.

Lecture: Compositonal techniques heard in the concert (Anthony Pateras)

7:30-8pm

A brief overview of the musical techniques used in the works we will hear in the evening.

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Concert program from 8pm:

Sphinx's Riddle (2017) for piano & electronics
A Happy Sacrifice (2018) for contrabass & electronics
Burning Is The Thing (2018) for piccolo & electronics
Thinning (2018) for clarinet & electronics
Prayer For Nil (2014) for voice & electronics

Interval

A Dread Of Voids (2021) for contrabass, bass clarinet, bass flute, piano & voice