Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

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Work Overview

Can You Feel the Sun is written in collaboration with Digi Youth Arts, Queensland Choir, and DeepBlue Orchestra for the production "Our Place". As a part of the process, I was able to workshop the text with Digi Youth Art resulting in the usage of an excerpt of poem, "Acknowledge", by youth artist, Roxy Jones.

Can You Feel the Sun is composed for staged dance choreography, interactive visual design and technology, and wearable tangible media. Our Place weaves stories from the Indigenous connection to country, to the suburban 'Australian Dream', to the rising popularity of inner-city apartment living in a large-scale musical and artistic collaboration with Queensland Music Festival, Digi Youth Arts youths, DeepBlue Orchestra, acclaimed didjeribone performer Tjupurru and Queensland University of Technology's Creative Industries and ARS Electronica Future Lab staff and students.

Work Details

Year: 2019

Instrumentation: SATB choir, strings.

Duration: 3 min.

Dedication note: TEXT (by Roby Jones) Can you feel the sun shining, will you be cold at the dark? Will you tread lightly, and leave here without a mark? Elders past and present, our children of today The wishes of this nation, we simply cannot betray.

Commission note: Commissioned by Queensland Choir, Deep Blue.. Commissioned by Deep Blue, Queensland Choir.

First performance: by Deep Blue, Queensland Choir, Digi Youth Arts — 2019. Queensland Music Festival, QUT Creatives Industries Precinct