Environment, Climate, and Music: Artistic Research from The Sound Collectors Lab
14. Mai 2025, 17.00 Uhr Tabakfabrik Linz, Tangible Music Lab
Die Abteilung Tangible Interaction Design lädt zum Gastvortrag von Louise Devenish.
This presentation explores ways to tune in to the relationships between musical practices and global challenges of our time, with a focus on artistic research projects exploring music as an alternative means of climate communication. Music and sound have an important role to play in discourse surrounding global challenges, including the climate crisis, social and cultural justice, and geopolitical peace. At the same time, these global challenges are strongly influencing the evolution of music, shaping new directions in creative practice, influencing curatorial models, and informing conceptual frameworks and artistic research practices for musicians in all contexts. Insights into artistic research surrounding music and climate will be shared through recent interdisciplinary works from The Sound Collectors Lab (Melbourne, Australia), that each reveal different stories of human impacts on bodies of water in Australian waterways.
Louise Devenish is a percussionist whose creative practice blends performance, artistic research and collaboration with composers, visual artists, designers and improvisors. As a soloist, collaborator, and ensemble musician (Decibel, Speak Percussion, and others), she performs internationally at festivals such as MONA FOMA, Nagoya and Shanghai World Expos, Tage für Neue Musik, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Tongyeong International Music Festival. Louise’s ‘interpretive flair and technical brilliance’ is recognised by APRA AMCOS Art Music Performance of the Year awards and Luminary Award, Churchill Fellowship, and an Australian Research Council Fellowship. Her performances can be heard on international labels HatArt, ezz-thetics, Immediata, Navona, Tall Poppies, Huddersfield Contemporary Records, and room40. Louise is Graduate Research Program Director (Music) and Percussion Coordinator at Monash University, where she is director of artistic research group The Sound Collectors Lab. Her writing on music is published in books, journals, and zines, encompassing Australian music, new performance practices, virtuosity, digital notation, music and gender.
