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Performance by Louise Devenish from the CD Music for Percussion and Electronics |
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Score
Coral speak : suite for vibraphone, coral instruments and stereo tracks / by Kate Moore.
Library shelf no. 786.8/MOO 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Coral Speak for Louise Devenish is a percussion suite of laments and playful dances in homage to the fragility of the Great Barrier Reef, where the corals are currently under threat due to climate changes and human intervention. Each piece imagines the colourful interplay of movement between the living corals, joyful sentient creatures celebrating the their idyllic surrounding and utopian waters. The pieces have a melancholic edge at the prospect of the corals retreating and dissipating as the water changes. The ebullient dance of life and beauty comes to an abrupt halt as it is silenced and abandoned, leaving behind a skeleton like a ruined underwater city that once thrived, never to return.
Work Details
Year: 2016
Instrumentation: Vibraphone, coral instruments and stereo tracks.
Duration: 23 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Contents note: Spel I -- Track I (Coral I) -- Spel II -- Coral Cadenza -- Track II (Coral II) -- Spel III.
Commission note: Commissioned by Louise Devenish.
First performance: by Louise Devenish — 27 Aug 16. State Theatre, Perth
Subjects
- Has as subject/About: Landscape and Nature
- Has as subject/About: Environmental themes
Performances of this work
5 Mar 2021: at Finding a Voice: About Time (Live streaming event (online only)). Featuring Alex Petcu.
24 May 2018: at Louise Devenish: music for percussion and electronics (Music Auditorium, Monash University). Featuring Louise Devenish.
22 May 2018: at Louise Devenish: music for percussion and electronics (Jugglers Art Space). Featuring Louise Devenish.
20 May 2018: at Louise Devenish: music for percussion and electronics (Z Ward). Featuring Louise Devenish.
15 May 2018: at Louise Devenish: music for percussion and electronics (The Sewing Room). Featuring Louise Devenish.
27 Aug 16: State Theatre, Perth. Featuring Louise Devenish.
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