Song to the Ocean
Song to the Ocean is a love song to the extraordinary marine live of the QLD coast featuring contemporary classical music, light installation, and community engagement.
Projects
Tower Divas
Surrender to the mesmeric frequencies of three powerful voices as they call out across space and time. The soul-stirring performance seamlessly blends the awe-inspiring talents of Yolngu songstress Gambirra Illume, Maori sonic weaver Whaia, and Korean-born vocalist Sunny Kim. Directed…
Laniakea II – Askill & Bonshek
Bathe in the sounds of an ever expanding universe Join gong master Dr Michael Askill as he navigates a multilayered soundscape that evokes the movement of stars in our expanding universe. Laniakea (lah•nee•ah•keh•ah) is the Hawaiian word for immeasurable heavens,…
Song to the Earth III Gong Experience
Experience the powerful waves of sound from Michael Askill’s gong orchestra with Greta Kelly’s haunting Persian violin or Shah Kaman. Composer Corrina Bonshek imagines the gongs as like the voice of the earth, releasing powerful waves of sound out to…
Quilpie! An Opera
Laugh out loud in this comedic opera packed with the tallest tales about this enterprising town that dreams big and has community at its heart. Find out how the town Quilpie became an object of global desire with its “free”…
Singing Waters
Singing Waters is site-responsive, music performance / ritual that invites community to sit next to a body of water experience sounds and stories that revive, replenish us as individuals and as a multicultural living community. This work is led by…
the space between us…
A sensory experience for adventurous listeners inspired by the wide vistas of outback Queensland.
Piano Room
Piano Room is a piano recital with a difference. The audience and pianist are immersed in a multi-speaker soundscape of augmented piano, real-world sounds, pre-recorded love-story that dramaticises the relationship between human, urban, and nature as a seduction, argument, battle,…
Love, Always Love
Be swept away by the blissful and bittersweet voice of Lebanese singer Samira El Koussa in Love, Always Love, a musical feast of Arabic, tarab, and western classical music with stories of love, and resilience. Samira El Koussa learned to…