Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

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Work Overview

How do we navigate a world in flux?

What do the voices of First Nations artists, who have collectively experienced a cataclysm, tell us about the way forward?

Precarities is a hybrid deep listening experience featuring some of Australia's best First Nations artists working in the fields of music and spoken word, in its world premiere season.

The beating heart of this deeply resonant and stridently political sonic artwork is the possum skin drum, tuned to the urgent sound of one of Shakespeare's most quoted soliloquies - translated into Wiradjuri.

Precarities combines blackfella-style cabaret, music for solo violin and rapid-fire spoken word with performances by comedian Steven Oliver, poet and activist Lorna Munro, rapper DOBBY (aka Rhyan Clapham), violinist Eric Avery and singer-songwriter Ancestress, curated by sound artist, radio broadcaster and journalist Daniel Browning.

Work Details

Year: 2022

First performance: by Eric Avery, Rhyan Clapham, Lorna Munro, Steven Oliver, Teila Watson (Ancestress) at Blak Box: Precarities (The Cutaway, Barangaroo) on 2 Sep 2022