The Sound Collectors Lab, Monash University Performing Arts Centres, and ARC Centre of Excellence for Weather in the Twenty-First Century invite expressions of interest from composers and sound artists for the development of new work that explores climate and weather change through music.
Read MoreA new work by Louise Devenish (concept/co-composer/performer), Aaron Wyatt (co-composer/electronics), and Olivia Davies (video), exhibited at CLIMARTE Gallery during the National Sustainable Living Festival from 14 February 2024.
Read MoreThe Sound Collectors Lab will next month be presenting Workshop 3 ‘Entanglements with intangible materials: process and design in sound and science’ featuring Dr Rosemary Mardling (Astrophysicist, School of Physics and Astronomy) and Erkki Veltheim (Composer/Performer/Director) as part of the series ‘Encounters: Artistic and scientific approaches to investigating the world around us’ .
Read MoreWe're Always Touching Underwater is a new film work by Erin Coates, with music by Alice Humphries and me! The soundtrack features an adaptation of ‘Where All is Blue’, a sliding, sinking, watery sounding work for aluminium tubes, crotales and vibraphone.
Read MoreCOSMIC TIME is a meditative performance work co-created by visual artist Michaela Gleave, composer Amanda Cole and percussionist Louise Devenish. The work takes concepts of time on a cosmological scale as a point of departure. Unfolding over 40 minutes, Cosmic Time explores representations of time ranging from the endless circling of planetary forms, to measures of time on Earth such as human breath and the fluttering heartbeats of desert mice, as well as abstractions of dissolving consciousness.
Read MoreAll percussionists are invited to the 2022 Day of Percussion at Monash University! It will include workshops, clinics, masterclasses and a concert. This is a free event, suitable for school and university students, emerging professionals, and percussion enthusiasts of all ages.
Read MoreClimate Notes is a multimedia installation and performance work by Anna McMichael and Louise Devenish. It builds on the 2015 and 2020 Is This How You Feel collections by Joe Duggan, of handwritten letters by leading international science researchers (including McMichael’s late father), and plant archives from the State Botanical Collection of Victoria.
Read MoreAn episode recorded for the Percussion Perspectives Podcast talking about career paths for young musicians, creating new music, the necessity of developing skills connected to writing, project presentations and grant applications. About merging a career as a performer, artistic researcher and an educator, and how music can lead to change and contribute to current discourses in society.
Read MoreWhat does the MPavilion sound like? The SoundCatcher is an instrumental sculpture built designed in response to the 2021 MPavilion (The LightCatcher), using recyclable materials. Developed in collaboration with designer Gyungju Chyon and percussionist Niki Johnson, The SoundCatcher was presented and performed beneath the MPavilion as part of the MMeets event ‘Instrumental Sculpture: A performance-panel’ on 2 February 2022. Photo by Darren Gill for The Sound Collectors Lab.
Read MoreTaut was commissioned by Decibel as part of the Two Minutes From Home series, which commissioned 20 two-minute works using the Decibel ScorePlayer for premiere online during the self-isolation period.
Read MorePresented annually by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre (AMC), the Art Music Awards acknowledge the achievements of composers, performers and educators in the genres of contemporary classical music, jazz, improvisation, sound art and experimental music.
Read MoreThe annual Day of Percussion is suitable for student, professional and community performers, and for aficionados and lovers of percussion music of all ages.
Read MoreConvened by Dr Devenish and hosted by the UWA Conservatorium of Music, this four-day international conference will focus on vital, diverse and inspiring music and art making by women and gender-diverse artists and scholars.
Read MoreIn 2019 Decibel celebrates 10 years with 10 performance around Australia, combining new works with a selection of the 70+ works commissioned since their foundation in 2009.
Read MoreSheets of Sound is Louise’s latest solo project, featuring two new commissions composed by Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh and Matthias Schack-Arnott. Sheets of Sound diversifies the sonic possibilities of metal, paper, plastic, skin and electronics, a tactile sound world is paired with instruments and objects carefully and spatially arranged.
Read MoreCo-composed by Cat Hope and Lionel Marchetti for performance by members of Decibel, The Last Days of Reality is the opening track on the album of the same name.
Read MoreIn 2018, Louise’s work was recognised by three awards: The WA Music Industry’s Best Experimental Artist for her solo work music for percussion and electronics, and APRA/AMC Art Music Awards 2018: Performance of the Year WA for Never Tilt Your Chair Back on Two Legs
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