Composing Music for Babelism:Love & Memory

BABELISM:LOVE & MEMORY explores how love has impacted your self worth and what memory you retain from past experiences that affect your 'now' state of being.

Babelism:Love & Memory, has been a birthing affair for artist Sarah Vickery for almost two years. Her desire to create devised work sprung from her influences Marina Abramović, Martha Graham, Pina Bausch and Olwen Fouéré. These women have all been unaware, distant mentors who have made heavy handed impressions on the drive and conception of Babelism – a series of endurance works focusing on different aspects of the human condition.

Drawn from the artists’ personal experiences, Babelism:Love & Memory is an intimate live art performance for an audience of 12. Hosted by project facilitators Sarah Vickery and Mathias Olofsson in the centre of the room, the 12 viewers will be presented with a series of considered questions and thoughts relating to love and self-worth. Project facilitators will interact with the audience and Maria Alfonsine’s composed sound design through gesture and movement to express these thoughts and questions. A 45 minute experience where YOU are the most important person in the room.

Babelism:Love & Memory, is a part of Melbourne Fringe Festival 2016 at Metanoia Theatre at the Mechanics Institute in Brunswick from 28th September – 2nd October.

Composing for Mens Rea by Raghav Handa

A dance performance piece performed and choreographed by Raghav Handa.
Mens rea gathers influences from Australian Aboriginal and Indian cultures and explores the concept of shape-shifting. Set against the background of the Hindu epic Ramayana, it uses 3D motion capture technology, animated CG character and stylistically diverse dance languages and aesthetics. Handa shifts shape to embody three mythic characters and creates a world where intentions, emotions and personas are beguiling and mercurial.
Paradigm-shifting forces at work. Images blurred and boundaries crossed.

Maria Alfonsine's pieces draw influences from Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima and Arvo Pärt's Perpetuum Mobile Op.10.

The show will open at Centre Of Contemporary Arts in Cairns on the 24th of June and then go to Brisbane and London. Click here for more info about the show or go to Mens Rea's Facebook Page.

Meeting: Gender equality in the film industry

The Australian Guild of Screen Composers hosted a round table for composers on gender equality last week at APRA. The session was co-chaired by AGSC President Guy Gross and AGSC Board Member Felicity Wilcox (Fox) and speakers included representatives from Screen Australia, Screen NSW and APRA.
With Angela Little, Ken Francis, Sharon Jakovsky, Guy Gross, Yantra de Vilder, Christopher Gordon, Freya Berkhout.

Composing music for TRADE by Alison Bennett

I'm currently making sounds and music for Hurrah Hurrah and their final development of TRADE, "a highly physical and stylised exploration of the engine that keeps the world turning: money. Through bouffon and object play, we explore Delta 1, the hedge fund trying to kill through investment. Hilarious and dark, it will make you laugh out loud... and uncomfortably".

Hurrah Hurrah is a theatre company dedicated to actor led, processes based theatre and live performance. www.hurrahhurrah.com.au

The music/sound will be a combination of manipulated organic sounds and crazy rhythms, and once in a while a little melody. A mix of disaster and comedy.

Best Composer Award!!!

The beautiful team of To The Top! Director/writer/performer Fiona Gillman, Producer Holly and Production Designer Kieran Strang.

Me and the amazing director Melanie Jayne (Waiting In The Wings) outside the Chauvel Cinema.

The Best Composer award was sponsored by the Australian Guild of Screen Composer.

I'm very lucky to announce that I together with Zac Threadgold received the Best Composer Award at the 23rd Sydney Film School Festival! Fiona Gillman has written and directed the amazing shortfilm To The Top! which also was awarded Best Producer (Holly Fraser), Outstanding Performance (Fiona Gillman), Best Editor (Rita Moricz) and the Audience Award.

Dr. McCarb's at Sydney Fringe Festival 2015

The new Horror/Comedy musical Dr. McCarb's Independent Surgical Hospital On The Hill will be playing at the New Theatre as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival 2015!
Book by Michael Heming and music and lyrics by Maria Alfonsine.

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