Peachey & Mosig

The Surge

The Surge

National Film & Sound Archive Canberra | Deniliquin | The Corridor Project | Orange Regional Conservatorium | Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Sydney
May - June 2021 | October 2023
The 1990s were a riot of transformation that redefined both Australia and the world. ‘Creative Nation’ announced the central role of art in life and society, while the Mabo decision set off a chain reaction culminating in Paul Keating’s historic Redfern Address and the Australian Parliament’s landmark Native Title Act in 1993. The internet began to insinuate itself into every corner of contemporary experience, reshaping everything it touched. The scientific community, meanwhile, spoke with increasing urgency of the mounting evidence of anthropogenic climate change, while politicians turned a deaf ear.

The 1990s were a riot of transformation that redefined both Australia and the world. ‘Creative Nation’ announced the central role of art in life and society, while the Mabo decision set off a chain reaction culminating in Paul Keating’s historic Redfern Address and the Australian Parliament’s landmark Native Title Act in 1993. The internet began to insinuate itself into every corner of contemporary experience, reshaping everything it touched. The scientific community, meanwhile, spoke with increasing urgency of the mounting evidence of anthropogenic climate change, while politicians turned a deaf ear.

The Surge
Ben Ward, The Corridor Project

Tipping Point

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"...Drawing on a minimalist language of interlocking rhythms and pitches, I use shifting patterns and ratios to convey a musical manifestation of beauty and order increasingly interrupted, ruptured, and finally destroyed...Global change does not operate in isolation but rather interacts with an almost bewildering array of natural variability modes and also with other human-driven effects at many scales. Especially important are those cases where interacting stresses cause a threshold to be crossed and a rapid change in state or functioning to occur. Finally, a tipping point is reached, where the patterns as we know them become completely destabilised, and all that is left is a roiling mass of dissonance, and ultimately darkness..."

Felicity Wilcox

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Stills from Tipping Point by Felicity Wilcox
The Corridor Project
The Corridor Project

Performers

Claire Edwardes (percussion), Jason Noble (clarinet), Sonya Lifschitz (piano), Véronique Serret (violin), Ben Ward (double bass), Andrew Blanch (guitar), Vladimir Gorbach (guitar)

Peachey & Mosig (video)

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Program

Paul Mac – Redfern Address (2019)
Peter Sculthorpe – Tropic (1992)
Jessica Wells – Diminishing Species (2021)
Felicity Wilcox – Tipping Point (2021)
Jessica Wells – Technophiles (2021)
Nigel Westlake – Tall tales but true (1992)
Jessica Wells – This is the Nineties (2021)
Robert Davidson – Netsurf (2021)

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Touring - Orange Regional Conservatorium, The Corridor Project, National Film & Sound Archive Canberra, Deniliquin, The Corridor Project
The Corridor Project

Diminishing Species | Technophiles | This is the Nineties

Three interludes composed by Jessica Wells explore ecological decline, extinction, technological nostalgia, 90's pop culture, scientific advancements and key political moments.

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Stills from Diminishing Species, This is the Nineties & Technophiles by Jessica Wells
The Corridor Project
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