‘Untamed, on a solitary mountain’, will be an immersive sound installation that explores the intimate and often paradoxical emotions of mothering, refracted through the fragments of a narrative derived from my own experience and dialogues with new mothers. The project combines scripted voiceovers, improvised and composed choral odes, breathwork, and generative soundscapes. Featuring two actors, a contralto, two sopranos and a mezzo soprano singer, the piece evokes both the expansiveness and confinement of motherhood.

Untamed, On A Solitary Mountain (excerpt)

Omniscience and Oblivion
2015
Single channel audio
48:22


Omniscience and Oblivion, (05:00 sample)

Combining my interest in language and the use of individual memories to speak to a collective or shared experience, I created an audio archive of Omniscience and Oblivion. I invited participants to anonymously share, via an online form, one memory they would like to keep forever and one to forever let go of. From these written contributions I recorded different individuals reading these memories. Each moment was mediated: by the choice of words, the grammar and syntax, the reader, and the pared down presentation. From this process of distancing the listener is invited to navigate the speaking subject by listening to the language and the voice, the written versus the spoken word. Omniscience and Oblivion presents individual memories that point to the potential existence of a collective memory.

Omniscience and Oblivion, 2015

This is a sample of The Place Where I Am From is a chapter of the multi-channel sound piece Entre-deux.

EntreDeux, The Place That I Was Born, 2017 (excerpt)

Entredeux, A home is where - sample (2017)

‘Only remains remain’ is a 15-person performance addressing a contemporary tragedy through the characters of Antigone. Using a chorus to communicate an elegy for the unidentified migrants that were buried in mass graves in Sacred Heart Cemetery the piece brings attention to ambiguous loss and our complicity in this history.

Freya Powell