William Barton’s Journey to the Edge of the Horizon unites sound worlds and cultures.
As stagehands prepared subtle amplification, William Barton, didgeridoo player, composer, elder of the Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga people, and engaging speaker of gentle generosity, said he wanted the audience to feel the wind blowing through the spinifex and see the rugged beauty of the sunset at Mount Isa.for didgeridoo, wind quintet, cello and double bass placed the animated articulations and shifts of harmonic aura of the didgeridoo at the centre of the sound world like a pulsing heart.
Of the range of heterogeneous sounds in Ensemble Q, who sat around in a half circle, Peter Luff’s horn combined most empathetically, its polished surface finding common grain with the textured didgeridoo tone. Phoebe Russell’s double bass added rapidly pointed pizzicato like a pebbly creek bed, and Trish Dean’s cello provided a flowing angular underlay.
The other Australian work on the program was Paul Dean’s Concerto for cello and wind quintet, which paired the warm, rhapsodic sound of Trish Dean’s cello playing with the wind quintet’s bubbling pertness. At the start, bass clarinet, bassoon and horn set up a discreetly syncopated accompaniment to a cello melody of increasingly soaring range.
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