NOMINATION: Work of the Year - Chamber
Chamber music is defined as works for between 1 and 12 players, with or without vocal parts, and with or without electronics
A work is defined as a single complete musical composition, or expression. This includes music with movements or sub-works (i.e. song cycles), installations, and real-time compositions (improvised music).
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Nominee
Naima Fine
Title of the work
Vantage Points
Librettist(s) or source author(s)
Words by the speakers
Performer
Cheryl Duronpisitkul, Arwen Johnston, Kim Tan, Lachlan McLaren, Miranda Hill and 4 speakers
Performance Date
12/10/2024
Venue
Trades Hall, Carlton, Melbourne
Nominator Statement
Vantage points is a work that sits between music, activism, and spoken word. Mixing powerful driving rhythms with the impact of first person reflections on environmental science and climate change as experienced by marginalised scientists and climate activists.
A major concert length work, it includes elements of aleatoric and jazz in a notated art music construct.
It's a powerful call to action, as much as it is a compositional force. The invitation to non musicians to speak their own words brings the often lofty concepts to a real world face that cannot be ignored.
Additional nominator statement:
Vantage Points is a collaboration between scientists, musicians, and composer that collapses arts/science boundaries to serve climate truths and envision co-created futures. Vantage Points ruptures the Western stranglehold on environmental knowledge: recentring marginalised perspectives of land, rock, time, and climate. This is a major work by composer/ecologist Naim Fine: a 50-minute work of vibrant exploratory art music layered with the words of First Nations, trans, POC, and neurodivergent scientists. It is also a work that is situated with a collaborative spirit, working closely with the musicians.
Nominee
Naima Fine
Title of the work
Vantage Points
Librettist(s) or source author(s)
Words by the speakers
Performer
Cheryl Duronpisitkul, Arwen Johnston, Kim Tan, Lachlan McLaren, Miranda Hill and 4 speakers
Performance Date
12/10/2024
Venue
Trades Hall, Carlton, Melbourne
A major concert length work, it includes elements of aleatoric and jazz in a notated art music construct.
It's a powerful call to action, as much as it is a compositional force. The invitation to non musicians to speak their own words brings the often lofty concepts to a real world face that cannot be ignored.
Additional nominator statement:
Vantage Points is a collaboration between scientists, musicians, and composer that collapses arts/science boundaries to serve climate truths and envision co-created futures. Vantage Points ruptures the Western stranglehold on environmental knowledge: recentring marginalised perspectives of land, rock, time, and climate. This is a major work by composer/ecologist Naim Fine: a 50-minute work of vibrant exploratory art music layered with the words of First Nations, trans, POC, and neurodivergent scientists. It is also a work that is situated with a collaborative spirit, working closely with the musicians.