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Big Bang 00:41
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Cosmic Soup 04:12
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Galactic 05:43
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Stellar 05:56
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Planetary 06:08
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Chemical 05:01
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Biological 06:24
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Esoteric 04:43

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COSMIC TIME is a meditative performance work co-created by visual artist Michaela Gleave, composer Amanda Cole and percussionist Louise Devenish. The work takes concepts of time on a cosmological scale as a point of departure. Unfolding over 40 minutes, Cosmic Time explores representations of time ranging from the endless circling of planetary forms, to measures of time on Earth such as human breath and the fluttering heartbeats of desert mice, as well as abstractions of dissolving consciousness. It is presented as a sequence of eight overlapping movements representing forms of cosmic time: Big Bang, Cosmic Soup, Galactic, Stellar, Planetary, Chemical, Biological, and Esoteric.

Performed by four spatialised percussionists for The Sound Collectors Lab, listeners embark on a sonic journey through explorations of time and space informed by historic scientific and musical concepts such as orbital resonance and harmonic sequencing. Centered around gentle metallic percussion instruments, sparkling clusters of bells and triangles, ultra low drums, gongs, cymbals, and a wide range of singing bowls, microtonal tubes and chimes. Together, these instruments pulse, blend and resonate together, to evoke sonic representations of atmospheres, sensations, and rhythms through time and space.

ARTIST BIOS
Michaela Gleave is a visual artist whose conceptual practice spans numerous mediums and platforms including digital and online works, installation, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. Her projects question our innate relationship to time, matter, and space, and focus particularly on the changing intersections between art, science, and society. Michaela’s work has been presented extensively across Australia as well as in Germany, Greece, The United Kingdom, Austria, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Iceland, the United States and Mexico. She has developed major performance and installation works for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Dark Mofo Festival, Hobart; Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth; Bristol Biennial, UK; Carriageworks, Sydney; and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. Permanent installations of her work have been commissioned by Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC; Salamanca Arts Centre, TAS; and The Rechabite, WA.

Amanda Cole is a composer of instrumental and electronic New Music. Her compositions feature microtonal structures, interference beats and fusions of electronic and acoustic timbres. Amanda’s compositions include percussion trios for a purpose-built Microtonal Glass Harmonica, a string quartet for string harmonics and sine tones and a choral work in just intonation tuning. Amanda’s compositions have been performed by Synergy Percussion, Ensemble Offspring, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Chorus, The Noise String Quartet and Kroumata (Sweden). Her music has been performed at the Sydney Opera House, Art Gallery of NSW, Museum of Contemporary Art, Casula Powerhouse, Salamanca Arts Centre, and the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona. In 2013 Amanda was awarded an Australia Council Creative Arts Fellowship. In 2019 she was awarded the Apra Professional Development Award in the Art Music category. Amanda has a Bachelor of Music (Hons.1) and a PhD in Composition from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Dr Louise Devenish is a contemporary percussionist whose creative practice blends performance, collaboration, and artistic research. As a soloist, director and ensemble musician, she develops new works exploring performance, notation, and collaborative creativity, within The Sound Collectors Lab and various ensembles including acclaimed electroacoustic sextet Decibel. She has performed internationally at festivals such as MONA FOMA, Nagoya and Shanghai World Expos, Ojai Music Festival, Tage für Neue Musik, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Perth Festival, and Tongyeong International Music Festival. She has collaborated on internationally distributed recordings with Decibel, Intercurrent, Speak Percussion and Synergy Percussion, released on HatArt, Ezz-thetics, Listen/Hear, Immediata, Navona and room40, as well as solo album music for percussion and electronics on Tall Poppies. Louise’s work has been recognised by a Churchill Fellowship, WA Music Awards, and numerous APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards, including Performance of the Year Award and Luminary Award. Louise is Senior Research Fellow and Percussion Coordinator at Monash University, and regularly publishes writing on new music in books, journals and zines.

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released September 8, 2022

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Lead artist: Michaela Gleave
Composer: Amanda Cole
Director, performer: Louise Devenish
Performed and recorded by The Sound Collectors Lab: Hamish Upton, Kaylie Melville, Nat Grant, Louise Devenish (percussion)
Recorded by Hadyn Buxton and Anusha Yellapragada at the Digital Hub, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance, Monash University, Melbourne, 28 May 2022
Mixed and mastered by Stuart James, Perth, 12 June and 13-14 July 2022
Liner notes by Louise Devenish and Michaela Gleave
Cover image by Silversalt Photography
Thanks to the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance for the use of percussion instruments, Zela Papageorgiou for rehearsal assistance, and Speak Percussion for loaning aluminium tubes.
The creative development of this project was supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, a residency at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, the Australian Research Council, and Monash University. Dr Louise Devenish is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE200100555) funded by the Australian Government.

Cosmic Time premiered as a percussion quartet as part of TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters, curated by Nina Miall, on 24 April 2021. This performance was presented within an exhibition context at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria. The live performance includes sounding costumes, created by Katy B. Plummer. Made of sheet materials including acetate, plastic, mesh and paper, the costumes contribute a quiet rustling sonic layer to the live performance work.

www.louisedevenish.com.au www.michaelagleave.com www.amandacolemusic.com
www.monash.edu/arts/music-performance/the-sound-collectors-lab

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Louise Devenish is an Australian percussionist and maker, working in contemporary music.
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