Love List: Art Music by Claire Edwardes
Artistic Director and lead percussionist Claire Edwardes picks her favourite composers of ‘art music’ that have inspired her and the Mesmerism program.
My Love List begins with the works included in Ensemble Offspring’s Mesmerism program and is themed around the style of all of those works – something along the lines of electro-acoustic-minimal art music. With works from Australia and around the world, these unique sound worlds are often lush and vast with a minimal grounding that we can all relate to.
This is cutting edge stuff from around the world with a sonic hook at every turn to inspire you.
“A shout out to Melbourne-based composer Andrea Keller and the Myer Family who commissioned the work. All of them are going through lockdown hell in Victoria right now! We have performed this piece all over the world and the backing track was made using samples of us in the studio alongside touching recitations of a Rilke poem, Love in Solitude.”