This new work by Reuben Lewis, the Australian Art Orchestra’s Pathfinder Associate Artist for 2019/2020, will explore MPavilion’s March 2020 theme of ‘Knowledge: Shared Learning, Shared Power’ through an expansion of his duo project with AAO artistic director Peter Knight through the addition of multi-disciplinary storyteller Tariro Mavondo and core members of the AAO. Reuben and Peter bring together contemporary approaches to the trumpet along with analogue media to develop an idiosyncratic and highly personal sound world focussed on texture and timbre.

Within this part meditative, part inquisitorial sonic universe, the “impurity” of electro-acoustic noise harbours the fundamental materials from which the grand design of this music is built, culminating in a durational sonic structure that is minimal and abstract but also incorporates melodic material.