The Australian Music Centre has announced the inaugural recipient of the MOMENTUM Commission: Composing lutruwita.

Improvising guitarist and composer Julius Schwing has been awarded $4,000 to write a new work for guitar and trumpet inspired by the natural cycles of the coast of Fluted Cape on his home of Bruny Island and using close listening and field recordings as a basis for the work.

Julius Schwing. Photo supplied

Said Schwing: “This is my first commission and I am very grateful for the opportunity to focus on creating a new work for guitar and trumpet named Crumbles:Fluted. I will be drawing upon the many seasonal, weather, melodic and rhythmic cycles present within nature, especially those around Fluted Cape, Bruny Island.”

The work will be released on Schwing’s own label, Isthmus Music. He will also deliver a site-specific performance of it on Fluted Cape’s shoreline. This dialogue between the natural environment and music is a driving force in his compositional voice.

Schwing has twice been nominated for the Freedman Jazz Fellowship, and twice invited to the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. He has released eight albums through...