Rift (2020)

COMPOSER Mary Bellamy

PERCUSSION  Peter Neville

HARP  Marshall McGuire

CONTRABASS Rohan Dasika

SOUND  Alistair McLean

VIDEOGRAPHY Agatha Yim at Polyphonic Pictures

LIGHTING TECHNICIAN Charis Rajamani

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR  Daryl Buckley

Filmed at the Primrose Potter Salon of the Melbourne Recital Centre 08.09.2023

Mary Bellamy is a composer based in Sheffield in the UK, and is currently senior lecturer and head of undergraduate composition at the University of Huddersfield. In her piece, “Rift”, there are many musical and physical gestures that occur between the musicians, so it was incredibly important that we kept this in mind during the storyboarding, filming, and editing stages. During the edit, it was a lot of fun trying to visually tease out all the gestural dovetailing between musicians, esp during the more dynamic moments as each instrument interjected with their sonic rifts.

Looking forward to the premiering the fourth and final ELISION Ensemble video from 2023. Be sure to subscribe to the mailing list and follow my socials to find out when it goes live!

Here are some of my other past collaborations with ELISION Ensemble: