Projects
VAST
Once a thriving port and now a relic of European settlement at the mouth of the Harding (Ngurin) river in the red dirt of the Pilbara, Cossack found itself momentarily reanimated when artists from around Australia descended on the stunning environment and its surrounds for a happening called ‘Vast' for which I was one of a team of 3 who conceived and delivered this multifaceted project.
Bernard Fanning, Tyson Mowarin, Sally Seltmann, Paul Dempsey, Ro, Glenn Richards (Augie March), Alex Gow (Oh Mercy), Ryan Brennan (Doug and Cletus), Alan Pigram, Adam Harvey, Paul McDermott and many others - camped out for a week in the 19th century pearling port of Cossack, 1500 kms North of Perth - and collaborated, wrote and recorded their life changing experience.
Days and nights were alive with the glow of music, art and collaboration in this makeshift village. Friends were made as musicians serenaded painters, sculptors and luthiers at work, providing inspiration to the musicmaking through their creations and processes.
Local elders asked that we refer to, ‘Bajinhurrba’, the traditional name for this place, that speaks of the areas deep history, as damper cooked in the sand and the Pilbara sun revealed ancient drawings on the rocks at nearby beaches.
This was a day of The Vast Project in the Pilbara, each moment captured and collected in art, film and song, now presented on Vast, the album.
COMING HOME
Coming Home was a community driven sound project supported by Phee Broadway Theatre At Home: a Mount Alexander Shire Council program.
Coming Home documents and celebrates the sounds of the commute from the city to our home in the goldfields of Castlemaine and surrounds. The music of train and road trips, once so familiar made almost a memory in the events of 2020, were brought back to life through sound recordings, remixing and a live concert performance at the Phee Broadway Theatre.
SOFTER CURRENTS
This touring exhibition was funded by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP), and was the first of its kind in the region. Created by ten artists from across the region - each inspired by their vision of ‘Our renewable energy future’
Artist, Aimee Chapman was commissioned by DELWP, to represent Mount Alexander Shire with her sound work, ‘Softer Currents’.
The sound work seeks to communicate the tangible yet largely unseen energy generated by renewable sources through the universal language of music. It takes the sounds generated by renewable technologies and the sounds of sculptures created in a renewable environment and processes and manipulates them into a compelling composition illustrating the evolution of this energy into melody, harmony and rhythm.
The accompanying video serves as a visual cue as to the origin of the recorded sounds.
