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David YOUNGDavid Young's music is performed in Australia, Europe and Asia in contexts ranging from concerts to music theatre and installation. As a composer he is preoccupied with exploring the relationship between sound and image, employing intricate and often miniature formats in unconventional settings. The music has been variously described as "musical origami" and "quietly determined to be itself . . . an aural equivalent of seeing a world in a grain of sand".As artistic director of Aphids Events, David composes for and co-curates cross-artform projects. These have included Ricefields, an electro-acoustic installation/performance which toured Australia, France and Japan; Radio 1, percussion/theatre event featuring the world premiere live performance of Beckett's radio play of the same name; and more recently Maps, a music theatre film text collaboration between Aphids and its sister company in Denmark with performances in Melbourne (November 2000) and Copenhagen (October 2002). In 2000 David curated music for Ice Carving as part of the Melbourne Festival, and the following year created the miniature opera and sound installation Overheard at Inveresk for Ten Days on the Island (Tasmania). In 2002 he was festival director of Next Wave, Melbourne's multi-artform festival which showcased new work by over 600 young artists. In 2003 the Belgian ensemble Champs d'Action presented a portrait concert of David's music at the Logos Foundation in Ghent. David will also undertake an Asialink residency in Indonesia where he will begin work on the Aphids opera project, Vending Machine. October 2003 |
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