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At the Threshold
Soprano Juliet Fraser presents a captivating triptych of musical works for voice and electronics including a collaboration with Festival featured composer Cassandra Miller.
The programme opens with the collaboration between Fraser and Miller. The performer puts on her headphones and settles down to meditate, for no-one but herself.
Inspired by the writings of marine biologist Rachel Carson (Silent Spring), Newton Armstrong’s work explores the image of a constant underwater “snowfall” of sediment that descends gradually to intensely dark depths, forming a swirling, descending murmuration of diversely particulate matter.
The programme concludes with a recent work by Rebecca Saunders, in which the mouth becomes a threshold, an opening to both the inner and the outer worlds.
Juliet Fraser soprano
Newton Armstrong sound