MODART provides emerging compsoers with the opportunity to develop a new work for vocal ensemble and receive a public performance by the Song Company
MODART
"Perhaps the most innovatively off-beat piece of the evening came from Andrew Batt-Rawden. Entitled < < click your user-name. > >, it was a musical venture into cyberspace involving lots of finger snapping by The Song Company stalwarts as well as brief snippets of text so varied and intermittntly suggestive of incipent seduction it was an ongoing fascination".
- OPERA OPERA David Gyger
Biography: Andrew Batt-Rawden
Andrew Batt-Rawden (b. 1984), having recently graduated from his undergraduate compositional studies this year, has written two theatre works, two film works, three orchestral works, and numerous chamber, electronic and soundscape works. Throughout 2007 his music has been performed in Australia, France, England and Greece, and he has just arrived back home from producing music for a contemporary piano concert in London, co-producing a short film for the 60th Cannes film festival and independently producing a contemporary music concert for string quartet in Cannes, France. While living on the Cote d'Azure, he wrote numerous new compositions for various ensemble types and solo instruments.
Batt-Rawden intends to stay in Sydney to commence producing a concert series featuring a selection of international young composers for 2008, a project he calls 'Enfer et Paradis'.
Program Note: < < click your username. > >
< < click your username. > > is a work about manipulation and lies. Its text comes from computers and chat rooms, and is set to music in a theatrical, humorous way.
Email, MSN, Facebook, RSVP, Gaydar and so many other websites promote the development of relationships (of varying levels of intimacy) over the internet. However, there is a difference between the online reality of 2D photos and stereo sound; and the actual reality of seeing, smelling, touching, tasting and hearing without a ‘digital screen’. The online reality is easily mistakeable to be an accurate representation of the actual reality, and as it is so easy to manipulate and lie online, what is found there isn’t necessarily what is found in real life. Extending this idea: is the internet the only screen through which we lie? Is it as morally wrong to mislead in real life through fashion, image or talk as it is on the internet?
We all have user-names and passwords on our computers for every online communicative software we have, and our user name online is a representation of our online personification. What <
