ARTIST INTERVIEW
WORLD PREMIERE
DR CORRINA BONSHEK — SONG TO THE EARTH
MUSIC / FREE
CREATING TRANSFORMATIONAL
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Art-Work Agency
EXPERI ENCES Dr Corrina Bonshek is influenced by nature to create a sense of peace and spaciousness in her music. She is the composer and creator of the interactive musical experience, Song to the Earth. What influence does nature have on your work? Nature has a lot of very pleasing patterns and I think inherently music is about patterns; rhythmic patterns, harmonic patterns. There's big structure patterns and small structure patterns on many different levels. I'm very lucky to be living here on the Gold Coast now, and my composing room in my house looks over a bush strip and there are Parrots and Cicadas all around me while I'm writing. For any creative person it helps to be surrounded by sounds and images that inspire you.
When I'm writing music, time stands still. When I listen to a piece of music that I'm really engaged with and really touched by, I'm not really thinking about anything else, just being in the moment. There's something timeless about that, like a little window into the eternal. The thing that I'm really trying to create in my music is a sense of peace and awareness of the moment. I'm interested in creating transformational experiences in my sound. I like to take people on an experience that connects them to their heart and gives them a sense of spaciousness inside themselves.
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Peter Thiedeke
Meditation is something that I do every day and composing is something that I like to do everyday too. I think both keep me balanced and happy and contented. I don't know if that's a journey towards something; it's more about a state of being.
Listen to the complete interview at bleachfestival.com.au/podcast
SONG
TO THE
EARTH Stroll through a forest of musicians in an immersive, live orchestra event.
DETAILS Saturday 7 – Sunday 8 April
Join acclaimed Australian string ensemble DeepBlue and master percussionist Dr Michael Askill, accompanied by 50 remarkable local young musicians, for a euphoric musical experience under the night sky. Illuminated by awe-inspiring light installations and featuring an original score by contemporary classical composer Dr Corrina Bonshek, Song to the Earth is an intimate music performance inspired by patterns and cycles from nature.
5:30pm / 6:15pm / 7:00pm Palm Beach Parklands 945 Gold Coast Highway, Palm Beach
CO-COMMISSIONED BY BLEACH* FESTIVAL, CITY OF GOLD COAST AND THE QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT THROUGH THE REGIONAL ARTS DEVELOPMENT FUND AND THE OFFICE OF THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES AND ARTS QUEENSLAND. PRODUCED BY BLEACH* FESTIVAL. CREATIVE CREDITS Composer & Artistic Director: Corrina Bonshek Musicians: Dr Michael Askill & DeepBlue
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