Louise Devenish
Performance
Thursday 26 September – COSMIC TIME
Louise will be joined by Synergy Percussion Artistic Director Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and WA Percussionists Thea Rossen and Carissa Soares to perform Amanda Cole’s COSMIC TIME. See COSMIC TIME artist page for performance Synopsis.
Friday 27 September – A SOLO FOCUS Louise will join Fritz Hauser, Ian Cleworth, Paul Tanner, Joey Eng and Gabrielle Lee in a concert of short solo works that explore the breadth of percussion and the artistry and styles of each artist.
Louise Devenish
Leah Scholes
Kaylie Melville
Niki Johnson
Amanda Cole – Composer
Michaela Gleave – Visual Artist
Cosmic Time is a performance work co-created by visual artist Michaela Gleave, composer Amanda Cole and percussionist Louise Devenish. The work takes concepts of time on a cosmological scale as a point of departure. Unfolding over 40 minutes, Cosmic Time explores representations of time ranging from the endless circling of planetary forms, to measures of time on Earth such as human breath and the fluttering heartbeats of desert mice, as well as abstractions of dissolving consciousness. It is presented as a sequence of eight overlapping movements representing forms of cosmic time: Big Bang, Cosmic Soup, Galactic, Stellar, Planetary, Chemical, Biological, and Esoteric.
Performed by four spatialised percussionists, listeners embark on a sonic journey through explorations of time and space informed by historic scientific and musical concepts such as orbital resonance and harmonic sequencing. Centered around gentle metallic percussion instruments, sparkling clusters of bells and triangles, ultra low drums, gongs, cymbals, and a wide range of singing bowls, microtonal tubes and chimes. Together, these instruments pulse, blend and resonate together, to evoke sonic representations of atmospheres, sensations, and rhythms through time and space.
Louise Devenish is a percussionist who creates interdisciplinary musical works as a performer, director and devisor. Her artistic research practice focuses on new modes of performance to explore the sounds, stories, and ecologies of the world around us. Louise is Graduate Research Program Director at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), where she directs The Sound Collectors Lab, creating new works with teams of collaborators from music, visual arts, digital arts and spatial design. Louise’s work has been recognised by APRA AMCOS Art Music Performance of the Year Awards and Luminary Award, Churchill Fellowship, and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship. Her writing on music is published in books, journals, and zines. www.louisedevenish.com.au
