The Lost Art of Listening

Cellist and composer Hilary Kleinig joins with pianist Erik Griswold and
percussionist Caleb Colledge for an afternoon of original music.

Saturday 7 March 2020 | 3pm-5pm
Lagavulin

The focal point for this program is Hilary Kleinig's newest piece "The lost art of listening," in which she investigates how people experience and value music in an age of 24-hour connectedness and distraction. An extended composition for prepared piano and electronic sound, the work questions how humanity’s increasing reliance on connected technology has affected the relationship between performer and audience, our distraction and attention, our passive and/or active involvement and our sense of occupation/dislocation. This performance is an excerpt from the work in progress.

Rounding out the program are works for piano, percussion and cello by Erik Griswold, Vanessa Tomlinson, and Kleinig, including the nature inspired pieces "Mystic frog under moonlight" and "a leaf falls."