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Sheet Music: ScoreThe Hunter River is listening / Adam Manning.by Adam Manning (2025)
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The Hunter River is Listening is a multimodal artwork that brings together graphic notation, field recording, and visual design to express the river as an active, rhythmic intelligence. The work unfolds across three interrelated arcs: the river listening to industrial extraction; the pulse of human life moving between work, home, and play; and the final moment where the river meets the sea and dissolves into oceanic motion.
At its core, this piece treats Country as a living presence. The accompanying field recording-captured onsite at the Hunter River-acts as the river's memory. The graphic score is intentionally open and flexible, allowing the work to be performed by any combination of instruments, from an intimate trio to an ensemble of ten or more performers. This openness ensures that each realisation of the piece becomes a unique dialogue between the performers, the score, and the river itself.
The visual elements of the score hold a strong aesthetic identity. Each section presents a distinct sonic landscape: undulating water, metallic abrasion, human industry, electromagnetic hum, and the expansive horizon where the river meets the sea. The artwork functions both as a performable score and as a standalone visual composition that maps the river's energetic and cultural rhythms.
Collectors of contemporary Australian art, First Nations creative practice, sound art, or experimental graphic notation will find this work significant for its conceptual clarity and cultural grounding. It offers a rare intersection of music, field recording, visual design, and place-based storytelling, honouring the Hunter River as teacher, guide, and co-composer.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (9p. -- A4 (landscape))
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 6 mins, 11 sec.
This graphic score is intentionally open and flexible, allowing the work to be performed by any combination of instruments, from an intimate trio to an ensemble of ten or more performers.
Graphic notation edition
ISMN: 979-0-67317-029-2
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