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Homophonic! is back for it’s 4th fabulous year! Now with even more exclamation marks!
We’re so excited to be back at the always amazing La Mama Courthouse, and back in the loving arms of the La Mama Theatre and the Midsumma Festival.
Featuring music by: Benjamin Britten, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Naima Fine, Jennifer Higdon, and a few surprises…
Instrumentalists: Miranda Hill, Ben Opie, Phoebe Green, Zachary Johnston, Paul Zabrowny, Laila Engle, Dan Richardson, Louisa Trewartha, Allison Wright, Rob Shirley, Chris Farrands, Matthew Horsely, Nat Grant.
Vocal ensemble: Steven Hodgson, Katherine Norman, Ben Owen, Matthew Lorenzon, Jenny Barnes, Scott Dundson, John Weretka.
Book tickets here! 27th and the 28th of January. 730 pm.
What else are you doing on a Tuesday and Wednesday night after a public holiday?
Waxing lyrical about Saint Saens dancing in a Tutu for Tchaikovskys amusement
Our amazing singing audience
Zac focusing on spinoff madness.
Dan mastering the contemporary music congas.
Miranda’s concentrate face.
Spinoff! Charles Wuorinen
Anna-Louise singing “Ad Astra” by Sally Whitwell
Anna-Louise Cole and Jennifer Mills performing “ad Astra” by Sally Whitwell
Jennifer Mills
Zoey, Luke and Miranda, bringing in the bass line of “A sort of orbit, (passacaglia)” by Wally Gunn
Jenn Morrish on Vibraphone
Aviva Endean on Clarinets
Laila Engle on flutes
Ben Opie wowing on the oboe.
Phoebe Green on Viola
Luke Paulding on Tuba
Laila Engle
Luke Paulding talking about his composition “her sparkling flesh in a saecular ecstasy”
Matthew Horsely on percussion.
Miranda Hill hitting the high notes.
Aviva and Laila
Wild applause for Luke Paulding and ensemble.
Phoebe Green talking about “the arrival” by David Chisholm
Phoebe Green performing “the arrival” by David Chisholm
Phoebe Green and Dan Richardson performing “the arrival” by David Chisholm.
Mutual applause is the best applause!
Anna-Louise Cole performing “Hat weaving fine” by Naima Fine.
“Hat weaving fine” by Naima Fine.
Ben, Laila, Phoebe, Zachary and Anna-Louise
Laila Engle
Miranda wishing she could be as cool as Ethel Smyth
Miranda reading from Ethel Smyth’s memoirs. Highly recommended!
Anna-Louise and Ben Owen leading the chorus of “the march of the women”
Jennifer, Miranda, Luke and Zoey providing the bass line!
Ben Owen is very serious about feminism.
Anna-Louise, leading the chorus of women (and supporters of women!)
3 Shades Black
Miranda Hill
Photos taken by the amazing Ali Hogg.
What a great show! Thanks to all our amazing performers, audience, composers, La Mama, the Early Music Studio, and all the queer pioneers, past and present, who have allowed us to be free to put on ridiculously fabulous shows like this, today.
Naima Fine Fine lives in Naarm on unceded sovereign Kulin nations land. They studied composition at Qld Conservatorium and have an Honours degree in ecology. They’re a 5th+ generation musician: their grandma Joanne Fine was accepted into the London Academy of Music alongside Joan Sutherland and Don Burrows, but couldn’t take it up because they didn’t let married women study there. Naima’s favourite instruments to write music on are old family pianos.
Naima’s creative practice embraces composition, ecology, and activism. They work across artforms, explore multi-media processes and outcomes, collaborate on circus and theatre shows, and occasionally produce their own concerts.
Last year Naima had a work commissioned and premiered in L.A.; did sound design for Sydney Mardi Gras’s sold-out theatre production, The Bed Party; was artist in residence at Tilde New Music Festival; did performative live composition at La Mama Musica and the Copy That Copy Cat Festival; and had a work analysed in Routledge Press’s The Digital Score: Musicianship, Creativity, and Innovation.
Naima’s music has been performed and exhibited in shows, concerts and festivals across Australia, New Zealand, The U.K., China, and the U.S..
Naima loves queer feminist sci-fi, queercore punk, bicycling, and playing in Riff Raff Radical Marching Band
3 Shades Black 