Audience Surveillance
20 September 2024. Buxton Contemporary
A musical response to The Same Crowd Never Gathers Twice: reflections on social contagion, groupthink, the individual, and the power of ‘the crowd’.
Directed by Joseph Lallo.
Curated and performed by students of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
listen to what the thunder says
Photography by Gregory Lorenzutti
Program
Quiet, Please!* Brynn Jacka, Joseph Lallo, Alexander Gorbatov
For Voice and Electronics
Singing Bath* Xiaole Zhan
For Bath and Electronics
Between One Moment and the Next* Tash McBain
For Saxophone Quartet
Digital Surveillance* Brandon Bartholomeusz
I. Feeding II. Panopticon
For Generative Synthesiser, Theremin, Saxophone and Voice
Composer Watching...* Hayden Taylor
For Saxophone Octet, Prepared Piano, and Percussion, with Offstage Saxophones
Silence Must Be, Thierry de May
For Conductor
Night Music, Emma O'Halloran
for Saxophone Quartet
Splinter, Marc Mellits
I. Scarlet Oak II. Sugar Maple V. Cherry VIII. Red Pine
For Saxophone Ensemble
"...our stage as a platform"* Xiaole Zhan
For Electronics, Saxophone Orchestra, Solo Violin and Player Piano
Breathe, Katahj Copley**
For Saxophone Ensemble
Elements, Katerina Gimon
I. Earth III. Fire
For Choir
*World Premiere
**Australian Premiere