(How) Are You Loving Home? — Music for Art Exhibition (2024)

Written for the 2024 Luminous festival, '(How) Are You Loving Home?' is an intimate composition for piano, cello, and violin. It seeks to provoke listeners to reflect on the land they inhabit and the community they share it with. It explores the distinction between house and home, and asks if we have embraced our place and our people - do we help those around us feel at home, and allowed ourselves the vulnerability to be embraced in return? Listeners are encouraged to reflect on if and how they embody these values.I am humbled to have worked alongside such tremendous artists as Michael Henderson and Karin McCormack in this exhibition. Experience my piece with its visual component (intentionally basic and looped to facilitate the reflection) below:

Baptism, Peter, and Jesus — Music and Sound for Animation (2024)

From Michael Henderson, the visual artist:
"The animation... [is] inspired by many different biblical stories that focus on Jesus and Peter. Like, Jesus asking Peter to walk on the water and Peter doubting if he can - like, Peter turning away from Jesus - like, Peter hugging Jesus after the resurrection. It connects these events with the symbolism of baptism, and its connection with Jesus’ death and resurrection."This animation was displayed in parts over several days, leading up to its full presentation on Easter, 2024, at C3 Hobart South Church. The project was exciting and challenging with its limited time-frame to complete. I find that sometimes, these external pressures are necessary to create at all.

Electro Lieder — Music and Media Performance (2023)

Showcased as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival 2023 on September 8 at the Annandale Creative Arts Centre, and nominated for best music. I had the privilege of joining with Fragments Ensemble and other experimental composers to produce "a wildly expressive multimedia blend of classical and the avant-garde." The art song tradition of voice, piano, and poetry (lieder = song), was expanded upon with violin, cello, explorative live electronics, and interactive digital visuals, producing a continuous 55-minute experience."Electro Lieder is an experimental multimedia fusion, born of these musicians’ collective, artistic response to recent world experiences. Their craft allows them to draw on historical and culturally diverse experience as they connect the past to the present and allow for imagination of the future. It is our collective hope to present more showings of Electro Lieder."I have been unable to obtain the recording of my piece for this project (and I'm sad).

Unending Transience — Composer Showcase (2023)

An orchestral piece of mine was featured at the Australian Institute of Music’s Blend Composers Festival on August 3rd, 2023. The narrative across its three movements depicts birth, beauty of life, and death. The core concept is the transience of these flowers’ beauty, but on a deeper level alluding to this same transience or ephermerality in all good and beautiful things, moments, and memories in this world. This narrative was projected on a screen at the event, and seen in the video below.As an exercise in orchestration and inspired by my tendency towards pushing bounds of realism, I limited myself to physically playable sounds, techniques, and ranges of instruments in the Western orchestra.

Soothe Your Storm — Journal Advertisement (2022)

I was commissioned to write music for an advertisement for the Soothe Your Storm Journal - providing tools to help understand and articulate thoughts and feelings for those who are struggling with mental health.With music and art so frequently being commidified or viewed only as a means to sell products, it's at least nice to help advertise a product which aims to be a positive force in the world.I enjoyed embracing my inner zen to find the peaceful vibes needed for this one.

how lonely lies this island, once so full of people — Music for Art Exhibition (2022)

Three pieces of music, played on loop, in three locations, each featuring a 6-metre tall sculpture. This public exhibition ran during June 2022, in Hobart, Tasmania. This was a significant milestone for my career and my personal formation as an composer. It helped me discover how to engage my faith values with my artistic practice.“Fundamentally, this art work is a heart felt response to our Tasmanian Aboriginal people and communities… It declares a desire to heal that relationship, to tell the truth of the past and remember it, to welcome them and continue to welcome them until they are ready to respond, and to carry courage with us, the Non-indigenous community, until we have developed a healthy, loving, trusting relationship with everyone. That is the wholehearted dream.” — Michael Henderson, artist.More info on the artist’s site

Three Little Bunnies — Music for Animation (2020)

In 2020, I composed some ‘old-fashioned kids TV’ styled orchestral music for this animation. The project started out as a present from three sisters to their mum, but a public release is in discussion.This project was commissioned by a friend, and it was a pleasure to contribute to a sweet gift to express thanks for their mother. The old-fashioned style was difficult to both compose and mix, but for the time I wrote this, I'm proud of it.

Out of Bounds — Student Animation (2020)

My first ever paid commission was for a friend-of-a-friend’s uni project. The story is about two siblings on a mission to find out what’s in their parent’s mysterious office (it's cute, and quite well done!) For the music, I took inspiration from the jazzy style of The Incredibles and action movie-esque percussion. This was a new style to tackle, and now years later I see the holes, but there's no replacing the fun of venturing into new creative grounds!

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