Children of the Drifting Weather

Composition for orchestra, collaboration with dancers, costume, and sculpture

Premiered by the University of Western Australia Symphony Orchestra, on May 27, 2022, at Winthrop Hall.

score excerpt

This was a collaboration with Western Australian visual artist, Susan Flavell. The project centred on Flavell’s masks, created in response to the 2019-2020 bushfires and 2022 floods. Keeping to the themes of WA’s extreme climate cycles, we expanded the project with an orchestral score, full-body costumes, and a centre-piece sculpture that doubled as a custom percussion instrument. The collaboration also grew to include choreographers, dancers, and filmmakers.

The costumes, sculpture, and music video were an exhibit with John Curtin Gallery from Feb 8 – Apr 14 as part of the Perth Festival exhibition, titled Horn of the Moon – 13 Goddesses.