Self-World

The Sound Collectors Lab

Self-World is a new 50-minute performance work for six musicians and electronics performed within a sound installation of textural sheet materials, currently in development. Self-World invites us to consider our individual perception of shared events, by exploring the concepts of scale and proximity as they are experienced as individuals and in groups. How does our location, proximity, access to something determine our experience, and how we are affected by it? This concept will be expanded on multiple levels, highlighting the dexterous, corporeal, and spatial performance possibilities between musicians, instruments, audience, and installation environment. Moving within and around this fluid environment, an immersive soundscape that echoes, complements, and interacts with the sounds of the large sheet materials that gently rustle and whisper, with an underlying rumbling that oscillates between comforting and something more allusive.

Funded by Australian Research Council, Australia Council for the Arts, Katharine J. Worth Bursary and Monash University

Creative investigators: Dr Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Dr Louise Devenish, Rubiks Collective, Keith Tucker, with producer Freya Waterson