Live from Brisbane Music Festival's 'Festival Gala #3'

Live performance at FourthWall Arts on 4.12.23

World Premiere Performance

Creative Team

Alex Raineri | Concept and Composition

Finnian Idris | Electronics

Jenna Robertson | Voice and Interpretation

Daniel Shearer | Cello and Interpretation

Staged is a new work for voice, cello and fixed electronics. The premise of the work is to invite the audience beyond the fourth wall, to step inside the psychosis of the performative persona. Eight brief movements set a libretto quilted from anonymous artists anxiety dreams. These words serve as provocations for you, the audience, to enter our world - the world of the stage.

This work is deeply collaborative. Musical material is gestural and semi-improvised. The score exists in instruction format, and distinctly bears the mark of the performers temperaments. Electronics are fixed, and serve as a sonic bed for the live performers to react to and engage with. Think of the electronics as the ‘greek chorus’, an 'absent other' that guides the narrative of the work.

The work exists in its current guise through the collaborative workings of the four person creative team. The work is a flexible entity, different performers would yield an entirely different interpretation. The premiere of Staged that is presented this evening is a first showing of the work, which is planned to expand to a full length show. Thank you for sharing in the first part of this journey.

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Mastered by BorgQueen at Syntonix

Videographer | Jai Farrell

The commission of Staged is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.