"Entangled Labours is a work for video and sound examining the politics, ethics (and poetics) of collaborating with, and transcribing my working-class father’s impromptu guitar improvisations (offerings I am deeply thankful for) and arranging these for an art-music ensemble."

Ensemble Offspring's Hatched Academy Composer Summer School featured six unique new compositional voices from around Australia, mentored by Artistic Director Claire Edwardes alongside Melbourne-based composer Kate Neal, core Ensemble Offspring musicians and guests.

ENTANGLED LABOURS (2021) for Mixed Ensemble (Ensemble Offspring)

Composed for 4 Pianos, Sine - Tone, Breath & Electronic Processing

Forma (hiding) for 4 Pianos + Breath (2016)

In​/​Her​/​Him​/​Raining​/​Phosphorous​/​Gardens - for 7 Spatialised Flutes

Text score performance of 'Intimacy' - spatial ritual series - by Josephine Macken (Alto Flute), Isabel Tzorbatzaki (Violin), Kurt Mikolajczyk (Alto Sax), James Hazel (Melodica). Performed at Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Intimacy ii (dependence) - for 2-4 instruments

intimacy iv (after the fact) is part of a larger cycle of works investigating the idea of ritual within various forms of intimacy. intimacy iv explores the residue of intimacy, which is deeply psychological, subjective and fragmented. This is the loss of real intimacy that occurs after a relationship breakdown, or after someone close has passed away. intimacy iv contains three sections whose materials constitute a type of musical ritual moving through states of loss.

1.            Emotional shock, slowly-forming, crystallising – incorporating breathing, sustained notes, and acoustic interference between parts
2.            Uneasiness, fragmentation, intensity – sustained notes are ‘animated’, before becoming rhythmically unified
3.            Isolation, reflection, potential resolution – after the climax, a sense of a tonal centre emerges through sluggish, overlapping phrases

intimacy iv (after the fact) for Mixed Chamber Ensemble (2018)

Premiered by Ensemble MISE-EN (New York) at Arts Incubator, 'Incubating 3', Oil Tank Culture Park, as part of Global Week, Seoul (South Korea).

Arts Incubator
Sojin Yoon | Director
Guwon Jeong, Yeasul Shin, Goeun Kim | Project Manager
Yeabon Jo | Sound Engineer
Jaehwan Kim | Designer
Kwanhee Yoon | Photography & Videography

Hum (study for bell interiorities)- mixed ensemble + electronics  (ENSEMBLE MISE-EN)

Performed by Sam Gill, and recorded at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Just looking around...checking out the water (2019) for alto sax + electronics

Australian composer, artist and researcher - based in Sydney, Australia.

JH

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