SITE & SOUND: Speaker Orchestra Concert

Electroacoustic compositions inspired by solar winds, glaciers, tectonic plates, rain and the spectra and timing of animal colonies

This concert was part of SITE & SOUND: sonic art as ecology practice, an exhibition shown at McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery.

 

The event featured electroacoustic compositions inspired by solar winds, glaciers, tectonic plates, rain and the spectra and timing of animal colonies. Works were presented on an 18 loudspeaker version of the SIAL Sound Studios Speaker Orchestra.

 

Works presented were as follows:

  • Oscillations planétaires (2017-18) Chantal Dumas

    No. 1 – Tremblements de terre; Plaque antarctique;

    Subduction; Fosse océanique (6:36)

    No. 6 – Magnétisme terrestre (3:19)

    No. 2 – Convection mantellique (5:09)

  • Canopies (2000) (12:15) Lawrence Harvey

  • Three Fictions: In the Rain (Northern Mix) (2000) Natasha Barrett

    1 – In the Rain (3:51)

    2 – Midnight Sun: Midday Moon (3:34)

    3 – Outside Snow Falls (3:03)

  • Solar Winds (2012) (9:35) Elizabeth Anderson

  • Liquid Sky (1998) (15:56) John Young

  • Névé (1994) Denis Smalley

    1 – Névé (4:45)

    2 – Corrie (6:08)

    3 – Sandar (6:20)

 

Spatial Sound Diffusion – Lawrence Harvey
Technician – Simon Maisch

27th of March, 2021

McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Langwarren

Gallery images: Lawrence Harvey & Simon Maisch