UnWrappedNew Mountainby Rachel Peachey and Paul Mosig
15 September 2024
In the Studio
Theatre
A multi-channel video work performed in real time, exploring our complex relationship with the environment, accompanied by a live soundtrack from Australian sound artists.
| Date | Time |
| Sunday 15 September 2024 | 7.00pm |
| Ticket | Price |
| Standard | $45 |
| Concession* Australian Senior, Australian Pensioner, Domestic Students, Children Under 18 | $30 |
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Run time
This performance runs for 50 minutes.
Event duration is a guide only and may be subject to change.
Age
Recommended for audiences 15+
Children aged 15 years and under must be accompanied at all times.
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A poetic, cinematic exploration of sound and landscape
New Mountain is a poetic three-channel video artwork by Rachel Peachey and Paul Mosig, performed in real time across four chapters, each in collaboration with some of Australia’s most accomplished sound artists.
The work considers our place in complex ecologies, through movement-based mediative practice and the exploration of various landscapes, amidst threads of deep time. A captivating live soundtrack from Gail Priest, Chris Caines, Benjamin Ward and Tilman Robinson shifts from deep atmospheric echoes of the cosmos, through haunting resonant reflections of the landscape, to the dense electrical chaos of the machine age.
The structure of New Mountain draws on the history of expanded cinema, with the multi channel presentation allowing the audience to drift between cinematic visual moments that map physical and emotional terrain.
UnWrapped
An ongoing series dedicated to uncovering the best independent creators. UnWrapped hands over the stage and introduces audiences to an eclectic panorama of the finest original performances by groundbreaking and unique local artists.
About the artists
Peachey & Mosig
Peachey & Mosig live and work in Canberra on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country. They use field studies and play to research their ongoing interest in human/environment relationships, which they try and understand from a range of perspectives. Their process is centred around collaboration, often working with practitioners from a range of other disciplines, using movement, photography, video, sound, sculpture and textiles to document and respond to particular landscapes. Their work celebrates notions of mystery and wonder, the poetic relationship between science and philosophy and the meeting of the rational with the intuitive.
Gail Priest
Gail Priest (PhD) has a multi-faceted practice in which sound is the key material of communication and investigation. The outcomes of this may take the form of solo laptop improvisation; audiovisual collaborations; soundscores for performance and dance, gallery installations; curation of exhibitions and concert events; and critical writing on sound and related media arts. She was the 2015-2016 Australia Council Experimental & Emerging Arts Fellow.
Chris Caines
Chris Caines is a renowned sound artist with over thirty years of national and international practice. He embraces the linkages between media and location across multiple modalities in video, sound, live performance and network media. His work has been commissioned and collected by a diverse range of major Festivals and Museums including ACMI, The Queensland Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate UK, the Art Gallery of NSW and the Sydney, New York, EMAF, Berlin, Venice and Cannes media and film festivals.
Benjamin Ward
Benjamin Ward is a musician whose practice is focussed on altered tunings, texture and improvisation. Since 2009, he has been a member of the double bass section of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) in which he has performed with Dr G. Yunupingu and Vladimir Ashkenazy. He is an accomplished improvisor, pianist, composer and music educator. He has taken part in many regional tours in NSW, most recently to schools in Wilcannia, Menindee and Broken Hill as part of his ongoing duo project with cellist/nyckleharpist Freya Schack-Arnott.
Tilman Robinson
Tilman Robinson is a composer, producer and sound designer. He creates maximalist electro- acoustic and dark ambient music drawing on a wide range of genres. Tilman’s diverse output focuses on the psychological impact of dense sound incorporating acousmatics and psychoacoustic principles. He has received major work commissions from genre diverse sources and accolades including nominations for the Melbourne Prize in 2016 & 2019. From 2019-21 he was the Artistic Associate of Australian experimental music group, Speak Percussion.
Credits
Producers
Peachey and Mosig
Performers
Rachel Peachey
Paul Mosig
Gail Priest
Chris Caines
Benjamin Ward
Tilman Robinson
Plan your visit
Venue information
Our foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
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Getting here
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Frequently asked questions
Ticket purchases and collection at our Box Office is discouraged and eTicket or postal delivery methods should be used, wherever possible. However, if you are collecting your tickets from the Box Office, we recommend doing this at least 60 minutes before the event starts. If you have already received your tickets, the venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Please take your seats as soon as you arrive.
If you are late, we will seat you as soon as we can and, where possible, in your allocated seat. However, to reduce movement in the venue as well as minimise disruption to the performance and other patrons, ticketholders may be seated in an allocated latecomer’s seat. Please be aware that some events have lock-out periods. In these cases, latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance. On occasions, this may not be until the interval, or at all where there is no interval.
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Please contact Box Office on 9250 7777 as soon as possible to advise if you can no longer attend.
Foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
The venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances.
Please bring a credit or debit card for any on site purchases to enable contactless payment. You’re welcome to bring your own water bottle but no other food and drinks are permitted inside our venues. Opera Bar, Opera Kitchen and Portside are also available for you to enjoy.
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