As humans we are bound to each other and to the earth we live on. We make music to connect and to explore the complexities and contradictions of our existence. Through the medium of electroacoustic music the ‘EarthBound’ program asks us to delve deep into the complexity of our relationship with our environment amidst the growing catastrophe of climate change.
The program brings together female identifying composers and performers from far flung parts of the globe, South Korea to Armidale, Melbourne and Western Sydney. Works from Unsuk Chin, Ros Bandt, Donna Hewitt and Felicity Wilcox will be presented alongside a newly commissioned work created in collaboration between Veronique Serret and early career artist Emma Harlock.
Featuring Alana Blackburn on recorder, Veronique Serret on violin and Emma Harlock on bass guitar, the program includes Unsuk Chin's Double Bind? for violin and live electronics. This extraordinary work grapples with the tension between the physical and human-altered - a wildly imagined perspective on the musician as instrument and agent of change.
Date: Thursday 25 August 2022 7pm
Venue: Nauti Studios, 201 Great Western Highway, Hazelbrook, NSW, 2779
7 min walk from Hazelbrook Train Station
Date: Friday 26 August 2022 7.30pm
Venue: Woodburn Creatives
82 Cope St Waterloo
Program
Unsuk Chin - Double Bind? for violin and live electronics
Felicity Wilcox (score, video and field recording) - Currawong Call (2021) for violin and tape
Ros Bandt (music) and Jutta Pryor (visuals) - Re-Growth? for recorder and electronics and video
Donna Hewitt - Permafrost for recorder and electronics
Emma Harlock - Concept:FUTURE for electric bass and live electronics
Emma Harlock and Veronique Serret new work for violin, electric bass and/or electronics.
Meet the artists
Videos of Earthbound
Photos from the Earthbound Event (credit Connor Malanos)
Media for EarthBound
CUT-COMMON article by Stephanie Eslake
“How has your relationship to the environment changed over the course of your life? It’s a question the curators of BackStage Music event EarthBound want you to consider as you listen to their electroacoustic concert program. Through the music of female-identifying artists from Australia and South Korea, you will be positioned to confront your connection to the earth during a climate crisis.Lamorna Nightingale, who co-curates this event with Fiona Hill, tells CutCommon about the themes woven into EarthBound’s thought-provoking program….”
CLASSIKON Review by Maddy Briggs - 28 Aug 2022
“On Friday night, the tall beamed ceilings and four white walls of Woodburn Creatives in Redfern became an intimate canvas for Backstage Music’s Earthbound. Curated by Fiona Hill and Lamorna Nightingale, it centred upon six pieces by female-identifying composers, unveiling and provoking our shifting relationship with the natural world around use ‘amidst the growing catastrophe of climate change’…….”
With thanks to our funding partners
