BACKYARD Sunday 3 April 2022 4pm
Join us in the BackYard for sculpture, live performance, and wine.
Set 1 Two Nightingales
Backyard hosts Lamorna and Jim Nightingale perform a set of Australian Music for flute and saxophone.
Ross Edwards - Water Spirit Song (solo saxophone)
Tristan Coelho - Daybreak (flute and electronics)
Rosalind Page - Florescos (alto flute and baritone saxophone)
Tristan Coelho - Sunset, Neon Lights (alto flute and baritone saxophone).
Set 2 Refract: Cello and Glass
Cello and Glass is a sound-sculpture installation and performance made in collaboration between glass artist Caitlin Dubler, cellist Natasha Dubler, and percussionist Niki Johnson. Caitlin’s practice involves the experimental fusing of glass and sandstone into unpredictable, disintegrating forms. She has designed a series of sculptural percussion instruments specifically for this event. Pairing sculpture with cello allows the artists to explore the unlikely sonic combination of glass, sandstone, and strings. Live music will be at 4pm, followed by an artist talk and a chance to explore the sculptural installation up-close.
Caitlin Dubler is a trained silversmith exploring creative practice through a jewellery-lens, paying attention to the ways the material world is transformed. Recent work has involved mapping the geology of glass, exploring the multivalent social and geological histories embedded within its minerality.
Natasha Dubler is a multidisciplinary artist working across sound installation, music performance and small sculpture. She is interested in how resonance, as a material phenomenon, can mould and shape landscape at or below the Earth’s surface, and how memories of these subtle shifts are etched into the material histories of a site.
Niki Johnson is a percussionist and composer-performer whose musical practice incorporates contemporary classical repertoire, improvisation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and performance art. She collaborates with fine-artists, theatre professionals, and experimental musicians to create new artworks and instruments existing in the liminal spaces of art mediums.
Lamorna and James Nightingale have been making music together for over 20 years. They have hosted several gigs at their home in Ashfield but this will be the first BackStage Music gig.