Polyptych: Emovere is a series of works for multi-tracked electro-acoustic and acoustic violin where Camilla exploits extended violin techniques and electronics to create an array of sonic effects. Camilla has approached her composition as an expression of her own neurodivergent emotional experience.
The five, individual sound-movement works are organised as a ‘polyptych’, telling a series of compelling stories about human emotion and to expose in sound the soundless soundtrack of connection that exists between people. The intent of the album is to create a space where the audience bathes in emotion, a sonicperformance/listening experience that creates a sensorial, visceral connection with feelings of human connection where the listener is encouraged to experience a range of their own emotions, prompted by the musical experience. While Camilla composed with her own emotions in mind, each listener will hear and respond to the music differently. Some of Camilla’s interest in creating music as a sensory experience comes from her interest in how the neurodivergent experience their environment.
Camilla Caldwell is a NYC-based, classically trained violinist-composer whose repertoire pushes the limits of violin texture and sound through advanced techniques, electronics and creative partnerships. Through her multidisciplinary collaborations with other experimental artists and her own multi-tracked, lushly-orchestrated compositions, she uses the violin to create unique sonic environments and soundscapes.
Camilla is a graduate of a second Masters, in Composition and Performance at Mannes The New School under Curtis Macomber and Stefan Jackiw after graduating with a Professional Studies Diploma while being awarded the American Australian Arts Fund Scholar of 21. She works as a touring sessional violinist, having been invited to perform in China, Singapore, Austria, Italy, Germany and in the UK, Australia, Canada and the US.
She was violinist for Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24 Decade History of Popular Music’ and Opiuo’s Syzygy Orchestra. Other credits include Contemporaneous, Blackbox ensemble, Broadway Sings, Orchestre de la Francophonie, Bronx Opera and Symphony, Chamber Philharmonia Cologne, Australasian Orchestra, South Georgia Ballet, Metropolotian Sinfonietta, Bang on a Can LOUD weekend, Australian International Opera Company, Melbourne Opera Company,Young NewYorkers Chorus, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Guilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria, Mixed Ensemble, Renaissance Opera, Opera Festival Orchestra, Vision Australia Carols by Candlelight and Australasian Orchestra.
She is also the technical director of Brooklyn Motion Capture Dance Company and works as a music technologist. She has had residencies at MIT Reality Hack, Peabody Conservatory, NotYetArt Phantom Dimensions, NYVR and Reforesters Laboratory.
Camilla has won positions and scholarships to many music festivals which include; Berlin Opera Academy, Orchestre de la Francophonie, Ensemble Evolution, Saluzzo Opera Academy, Bang on a Can, Mostly Modern Festival, New England Con Summer Institute for Contemporary-Performance Program and electronic artist, 1:2:1 New Music Festival x3, Vienna Summer Music Festival Festival, Suoni d’Abruzzo, Miami Classical Music Festival, Miami Wagner Institute, Florida State University biennial New Music Festival, Brevard Music Centre Summer Institute and Festival Akaroa International Music Festival.
