MAPS

‘The most aesthetically refined building tour in history, the most concentrated collection of functioning clocks and metronomes in the Southern Hemisphere…the most fastidiously upmarket echo of Cagean musical cartography’ — Jeff Pressing, The Age

‘Maps was overwhelming for the sheer scale of the concepts behind the project, its investigation of analogies between aspects of cartography and music. I intuited that my experience exceeded my perception and my understanding, and this was intensely exciting…it triggered interesting areas of my consciousness, while also triggering a great deal of reflection later’ — Matthias Schack-Arnott, Sonorities of Site 

First performed at ArtsHouse, North Melbourne Town Hall, Maps was a site-specific performance created with reference to architectural maps, settings and details, and stories of place. An auditory journey through a musical and poetical landscape, and a major collaboration between APHIDS and Kokon in Copenhagen, Maps involved contemporary music, visual design, film projection and text, with artists and musicians from Denmark, Australia and Japan.

The ideas for which Maps is the forum have their realisation in various forms: in performative site-specific applications to certain buildings and in sound documentation including a number of publications.

CREDITS

Composers — David Young & Juliana Hodkinson
Scenographer — Louise Beck
Text — written & recited by Cynthia Troup
Film — Louise Curham
Musicians — Natasha Anderson (recorders), Katrine Gislinge (pianoforte), Yasutaka Hemmi (violin), Henrik Larsen (percussion), Caerwen Martin (violoncello) and for the Melbourne performances, Vanessa Tomlinson (Percussion) and Helle Thun.