Cosmic Time 

The Sound Collectors Lab

Cosmic Time is a new performance work co-created by Michaela Gleave, Amanda Cole and Louise Devenish. The project considers time on a cosmological scale and is informed by historic scientific and musical concepts such as orbital resonance and harmonic sequencing, and involves alternate, opposing, and intersecting rhythmic and metric schemas. Four percussionists, each appearing as a spirit from the multiverse in costumes designed by Katy B. Plummer, sound a sequence of eight interwoven explorations of time and space. Resonant, pitched metallic instruments, sparkling clusters of bells and triangles, low drums, woods, and gongs are used in combination with electronics to evoke atmospheres, sensations, and rhythms scaling from the fall-out of the big bang; the endless circling of planetary forms; the fluttering heartbeats of desert mice; and the dissolve of consciousness into the astral plane.

ALBUM

Available on bandcamp and Spotify

PERFORMANCES

26 September 2024: Boom! International Festival of Percussion, WA Academy of Performing Arts, Perth

10 September 2024: Stellar, Monash University Percussion Studio, Melbourne

6 October 2022: Boom! International Festival of Percussion, Seymour Centre, Sydney

15 September 2022: David Li Sound Gallery, Monash University (album launch: spatialised deep listening event)

8 September 2022: 3x performances at Carriageworks for Sydney Contemporary

24 April 2021: TarraWarra Biennial: Slow Moving Waters (premiere)

ARTICLES and REVIEWS

Resonate [2022] CutCommon [2022] Limelight [2022] TEMPO [2023]

PBS interview with Ian Parsons [2023]

The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world, Formist Editions [2022]