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Rubiks Collective – Towards Home
August 25, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
“incredibly personal, strangely spiritual and ultimately deeply touching” – Limelight
Rubiks Collective presents two world premieres from rising art music composers Alice Chance and Maria Kaoutzani, in this performance exploring the intricacies between love, intergenerational relationships and complex modern-day perceptions of ‘home’.
Chance’s new work Heirloom is an electroacoustic ‘mother-daughter motet’, featuring the voices of fifteen women from five different families. Drawing from the Blue Mountains, the Torres Strait, the Philippines, France and Iran, the women sing and share stories of the treasured keepsakes, traditions and memories handed down from grandmother to mother to daughter: a jewellery box, a collection of songs, a prayer.
Drawing musical inspiration from Monteverdi’s Vespers and Gavin Bryars’ Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, the voices slowly phase in and out of synchronisation with each other, reflecting the complex and constantly evolving ties between mothers and daughters throughout their lifetimes.
Heirloom is paired with Five Love Songs by Maria Kaoutzani (Greece/USA), one of the founding members of the all-female New York composer collective Kinds of Kings. While its title suggests simplicity of format and concept, this new work interrogates Kaoutzani’s personal experiences of love and belonging regarding intimate relationships and nationalistic identity.
Date 25 August 2023
Time 7.00pm
Duration 60 minutes
Address Melbourne Recital Centre, 31 Sturt Street Southbank 3006
Tickets $30 – $37
Bookings melbournerecital.com.au or (03) 9699 3333