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This weekend, vocal ensemble Halcyon joins austraLYSIS and sound artist Jon Drummond to present From afar\u2026<\/em> explorations in time, sound and space. <\/em><\/p>\n Soprano Alison Morgan, co-founder\u00a0and co-artisitic director of Halcyon is joined by mezzo-soprano Jo Burton, cellist Geoffrey Gartner, Jon Drummond and cound artist and director of\u00a0austraLYSIS,\u00a0Roger Dean,\u00a0to perform\u00a0works by\u00a0Morton Feldman, Iannis Xenakis and Kaija Saariaho, as well as two world premieres by Jon Drummond and Roger Dean.<\/p>\n Roger Dean\u00a0is the\u00a0founder and director of the\u00a0ensemble austraLYSIS and founding co-editor of the sound intermedia creative arts journal. He is also\u00a0Research Professor of Sonic Communication, Music, Cognition and Action Group,\u00a0at the University of Western Sydney. He delivers some\u00a0helpful insights\u00a0into the concert repertoire.<\/p>\n “The fixed digital sound in\u00a0Saariaho\u2019s Lonh,<\/em> teams amplified soprano with prepared soundscape. The ‘prepared sound’ is\u00a0mostly derived from some material pre-recorded by two members of Halcyon, performing written motives and described patterns by the composer. A variety of transforms and montages were used in the studio. Some of the motivic elements which were performed in the recordings are still detectable in the transforms, and they are used as the compositional basis of the notated live vocal parts. They also contribute to the gentle groove of a bass-line which appears at times in the work, itself subjected to further compositional transformation in the studio.”<\/p>\n The electro-acoustic nature of the works means that there is a new skill set required in the\u00a0production team –\u00a0skills traditionally not\u00a0 required in the performance of live ‘classical music’. Enter, the Sound Technician. Whilst Drummond and Dean\u00a0will set up their own works and those by Saariaho and Xenakis, Halcyon will\u00a0be working with a sound technician to create their unique performance.<\/p>\n