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Quiltytlq
Musical composition

Quiltytlq

Briony Luttrell
2019
Appears in  NTRO Research Collection
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc6LGXjkMzAView
VideoVideo 'Nonsemble perform music inspired by Ben Quilty' on the QAGOMA YouTube channel.
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https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/nonsemble-music-inspired-by-margaret-olley-ben-quilty-james-turrell/View
WebpageSupporting Press: QAGOMA blog post 'MUSIC INSPIRED BY ART'

Abstract

Music Composition Cultural Studies Music Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing interdisciplinary epistemic metaphor response to visual art Quilty electroacoustic
Program music (Kregor 2015), musical ekphrasis (Bruhn 2001), and the stylistic coherence between art and musical movements (Klein and Parncutt 2010) make up a rich history of musical works written in response to and presented alongside visual art. Much of this history responds by way of subject, narrative, interpretation, or to specific works of art. In 2019, GOMA commissioned Nonsemble to compose 3 new musical works responding to the art of Olley and Turrell (Chris Perren) and Quilty (Briony Luttrell). This innovative and challenging commission responds musically to a 44-piece collection of Quilty’s works (from 2003-2018) and was composed so that it can be performed in front of any work in the collection. Quiltytlq is a 15-minute electroacoustic composition that explores epistemic metaphor in a musical response to visual art. Quilty's heavy impasto inspired a dense textural approach to composition. The Rorschach technique is applied to musical material that is mirrored and decayed using performance techniques and electronic processing. The danger of the medium, seen in Quilty’s use of PPE and long drying times, inspired the use of extended instrumental techniques, processing to the point of feedback, and directed improvisation sections. The compositional approach in Quiltytlq expands on ways to realise interdirectional conversations between creative works in different mediums through the interdisciplinary application of techniques. This work was commissioned by GOMA as part of the Olley and Quilty exhibition. It was performed live during 4 Up Late dates at GOMA with thousands of attendees in August 2019. Nonsemble’s suite of newly composed works were the first pop-up performances in GOMA which were staged in front of the art works. As a result of the success of this collaboration, it was professionally filmed and released on QAGOMA YouTube channel which has over 7000 subscribers.

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