Written in close collaboration with Australian violinist Phoebe Green, Swell, is the premiere work for solo viola d’amore and live electronics, expanding the ideas of reverberation both as a phenomenon and a metaphor. Part scripted, part improvised, the performers will move around the David Li Sound Gallery to enhance the audience experience of these planes of sound. Reverberation helps us sense and understand the space around us, shaping how we interact with our environment. Through carefully crafted movements of sound behaviours, Swell is a musical essay on how memories are revisited upon each recall to conjure a surge of emotions that are internalised, learned, and embodied to help shape our unique sense of self.

Annie Hsieh is a Taiwanese Australian composer working in acoustic and electroacoustic mediums. Her work focuses on creating visceral physical experiences and articulates sonic expressions in terms of spatial gestures and relational sociality.