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VANESSA TOMLINSON, DR JESSE BUDEL, GREG HARM
Immerse yourself in Channelling Dulcie’s Piano, a large-scale audio-visual work at the confluence of experimental sound art, acoustic ecology, climate concern and piano practice. Down a narrow laneway flanked by the cityscape, contemporary classical music swims around you. A translation of post-flood river systems is projected onto an ageing pianola, which is in turn projected onto a multistorey building above – a vast video journey along the largest river system in Australia, following the Murray River from its mouth in South Australia, along its tributaries to the Great Dividing Range in northern New South Wales. The piano – the central object of this work – belonged to a family member, and was towed 3000kms over ten days and eight performance locations. Percussion, brass and strings interpret the waterways, floating through the air, marking passage, marking time.
Vanessa Tomlinson is the Director of the Creative Arts Research Institute at Griffith University. Her interdisciplinary work draws on longterm engagement with experimental music practices, the development of an idiomatic percussive approach, and an improvisational language that incorporates found objects, the environment and a world of human and non-human collaborators. Key works include The Piano Mill, The Immersive Guitar, Clocked Out, Water Pushes Sand, The Listening Museum, Beacons and The Imaginary Aviary.
Dr Jesse Budel is a composer-performer, sound artist, and Research Associate at Elder Conservatorium of Music, The University of Adelaide. His works are for diverse media and spaces, ranging from concert works and installations to community and interdisciplinary collaborations. Currently, Jesse serves as the Secretary for the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and in 2024 is the recipient of a prestigious Arts South Australia Fellowship, supporting research into and creative development of higher-order ambisonic works. For more information, visit www.jesse-budel.com
Greg Harm has spend over twenty years as a professional photographer/videographer/installation video artist. His photographic craft has been honed from a decade spent documenting Australia’s Natural History and is now clearly focussed in a direction dreamed of from childhood; capturing and making images for sound.
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | Creative Arts Research InstitutteGriffith University |
| PHOTO | Tangible Media @harmgreg |
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