Music

  • Fringe Festival

Digital Echoes

A concert for viola, percussion and electronics exploring sound that travels.

A person playing a viola in a dark room, with a large metal sheet reflecting both their image and a projection of their shadow.
Past Event

Image Credit: Darren Gill

  • Created and Performed by: Aaron Wyatt

  • In Collaboration with: Speak Percussion

  • Featuring: Eugene Ughetti

Digital Echoes explores the transformation of sound, messages and meaning displaced by time and space.

Melodic fragments of a viola are sent via internet connection to five different locations around Australia. The captured sound is then sent back to the performance space where it resonates percussion instruments, blending into the live soundscape.

As the viola echoes, bouncing around the country, in and out of the live performance, its journeys create unpredictable timings, mapping the unseeable landscapes of our information highways.

Digital Echoes explores translation and what is lost and gained through coding and decoding. Inviting reflection about the history and future of internet and interstellar communication, this new work from Aaron Wyatt and Speak Percussion combines remarkable technology, contemporary classical music and percussive art to create an enthralling and otherworldly score.

To hear more about Aaron Wyatt's work, check out his conversation with James Howard in 'Artists in Conversation: Stories through Sound'.

ARTISTIC CREDITS
Concept, realisation and performance: Aaron Wyatt
Collaborating Artist /Performer: Eugene Ughetti
Collaborating Company & Producer: Speak Percussion

SUPPORTED BY
Digital Echoes was conceived by Aaron Wyatt and commissioned by Speak Percussion as part of their artists in residence program. Supported by Melbourne Fringe Festival and the City of Melbourne through Arts House.

artshouse.com.au