Audrey Ormella - Ice Giant | IMPOSTO June 2024

A solo voice calls across a silent ocean; the Wanderer is searching. The temperature drops, and icy fragments drift around them as they continue, happening suddenly upon the Ice Giant. The Wanderer calls out again to the frigid landscape, syllabic fragments buzzing against the icy, metallic pinging, a disembodied human voice echoing back and forth across the body of the frozen monolith. The scale of the giant body becomes imposing, suddenly overwhelming with ancient presence. Flourishes of movement and breathless voices convey growing anxiety, before the Wanderer slinks away, leaving the memory of the Ice Giant behind.

The program IMPOSTO, especially created for Backstage Music, thematically connects seven uniquely designed works navigating pre-determined and naturally existing axes investigating vertical and horizontal shifts in aural dimensions. Inspired by images selected from a monotonic picture book, The Wanderer by Peter van den Ende (Pushkin Press), a sonic trajectory organically unfolds. This guided musical journey explores and features concepts and resultant qualities of sympathetic resonance performed by virtuosic artisans investigating further reaches of their creative facilities.

Showcased on June 14 2024 at at Woodburn Creatives, Redfern.

More info on what happened here: https://www.backstagemusic.com.au/imp...

Videography by Ollie Miller