Work
AGAM (multiple orchestras)
by Sri Andal, Sridha Chari, Benjamin Northey, Hari Sivanesan, Priya Srinivasan, Goswami Tulsidas, Alex Turley and Uthra Vijay (2022)
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Work Overview
AGAM brings 3 intertwined stories of Tamil Australians (past, present, and future) from migrants and refugees who come from colonial pasts to live and work on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation. The works reveal themes of home and belonging, insiders and outsiders, and existing between many worlds. This performance from a non-western perspective, imagines music as dance, visuals, history, politics, entertainment and powerful storytelling, all at once.
Agam in Tamil refers to the interior landscape. The MSO commission enables the exploration of interiority from a range of viewpoints bringing the mythological, ancient and the contemporary together. All the music has been created in collaboration with composer Alex Turley.
Work Details
Year: 2022
Instrumentation: Carnatic ensemble (not scored), full orchestra.
Duration: 50 min.
Contents note: I. New Homes -- II. Becoming (Andal) -- III. Calisa (The Way Forward).
Commission note: Commissioned by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
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