Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

In her new work Sunny Kim has assembled a stellar cast of musicians: Aviva Endean, Mindy Meng Wang and Gelareh Pour. At the heart of their work is a poetic response to motherhood referencing the artists' and their mothers' experiences of migration, longing, belonging, joy, and pain. At the heart of MotherTongue, MotherLand is a poetic response to motherhood, with specific reference to migrant experiences, as all these amazing musicians, or their mothers, were born somewhere other than Australia. MotherTongue, MotherLand is intended to create an intimate and safe space in which family stories of longing, belonging, joy, and pain are shared and celebrated. In the premiere of the new work, listeners will be invited to connect across culture and language through spoken to sung, structured to improvised, and traditional to experimental sonic narratives. Sunny Kim says: "The Utzon Room at the Sydney Opera House seems to be the perfect place for the performance of this work - with the beautiful tapestry on one side designed by Jorn Utzon, the architect of the Sydney Opera House, who worked closely with his daughter, Lin Utzon, to produce the artwork. Then on the other a wall of glass window looks out to the sea and evokes one’s imagination for the many untold Australian family stories of migration, longing, and belonging. My collaborators - Gelareh Pour, Mindy Meng Wang, and Aviva Endean – and I very much look forward to sharing with the audience the celebration of our stories and sounds coming together in this special place."

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on +61 2 9250 7777 or by email to bookings@sydneyoperahouse.com

Featured Australian Works

Featured artists

• New work by Sunny Kim
• Performer Aviva Endean
• Performer Mindy Meng Wang
• Performer Gelareh Pour