MOSSO: music in motion
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Saturday, 3 May 2025
10:00 am
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National Film and Sound Archive
McCoy Cct, Acton ACT 2601
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In Association with
Presented in association with the National Film and Sound Archive and ABC Radio National Music Show
MOSSO: music in motion is a dynamic, all-day celebration of contemporary music, moving images, and spatial sound, showcasing Australia’s top composers, sound artists, new media artists, and performers in a stunning array of multimedia experiences.
Join us at the National Film and Sound Archive, Australia’s premier audiovisual cultural institution, as MOSSO transforms its spaces into a multi-venue festival experience. From 10am to 6pm, immerse yourself in an expansive program of events, with access to the on-site café, courtyard, the Mediatheque lounge, and NFSA permanent exhibitions.
The primary venue, the ARC Cinema, will be rendered in its full cinematic glory with live spatial sound operated by acclaimed sound designer Bob Scott. Experience his spatialisation of the live performances, as sound moves dynamically in three-dimensional space.
Enjoy both free and ticketed events across four different spaces. Discounts for concert tickets are available – check below for event start times!
PROGRAM – Performances from 10am – 6pm
The Magnetic Quiet Zone (free)
Philip Samartzis, Sean Williams and Martin Walch
Video and multichannel sound
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Duet for One (ticketed)
Sonia Lifschitz and Damian Barbeler
Live cinematic concert for live piano, film, projections, ritual theatre, sculpture and sound design
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Whitewater (free)
A performance intervention by world renowned French piper Erwan Keravec. Presented with support from L’Etat – Préfet de la région Bretagne – DRAC Bretagne, la Région Bretagne.
L’Adami, le Centre National de la Musique, l’Institut Français, la Maison de la Musique Contemporain, Spectacle Vivant en Bretagne, Spedidam.
Australia Fair? (ticketed)
Flinders Quartet, Bryony Marks, Claire Higgins
String quartet, film and images
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Living Poems of the Sea (ticketed)
Sally Walker – solo flute and narrator
Lyle Chan – writer and composer
with audio-visual contributions from Murray Farrell and Grant Stevens
A meditation on the enthralling world of dolphins and whales in music, sound, words and images.
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Flowermuscle and the River Styx (ticketed)
Jane Sheldon – composer, soprano and piano
For solo soprano, piano, electronics and live spatialisation
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A Book of Hours (ticketed)
Kate Neal, Sal Cooper, Gerard Van Dyck and Rubiks Collective
Multimedia live performance for four piece instrumental ensemble, live electronics and film
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Roundabouts and Turntables (free)
An exhibition in the Mediatheque space, celebrating Peter Hislop’s 50-year photographic career accompanied by a soundscape composition by Ronan Apcar.
Constellations (free)
An immersive audiovisual experience by Robin Fox in which sound, light, and space collide.Step into a different dimension and immerse yourself in the energy and ambience of Constellations. This spellbinding exhibition transforms the NFSA gallery into a vibrant fantasia of colour and sound, with laser beams which pulse in harmony with the very electricity that powers them. Click here for NFSA event information.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
An automatic discount of 15 per cent applies when purchasing three or more MOSSO tickets in a single transaction.
Note for Pass Holders – Festival passes automatically include entry to the 2pm-6pm ticketed events.
NFSA visitor information at nfsa.gov.au/visit-us
ARTIST Learn more about the artist
Artist Erwan Keravec - highland bagpiper, composer and improviser
Artist Andrew Ford, composer - writer - broadcaster
Andrew Ford OAM is a composer, writer and broadcaster who has won awards in each of those capacities, including the Paul Lowin Prize for his song cycle Learning to Howl, a Green Room Award for his opera Rembrandt’s Wife and the Albert H. Maggs Prize for his large ensemble piece, Rauha. He has been composer-in-residence for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. In 2014 he was Poynter Fellow and visiting composer at Yale University, in 2015 visiting lecturer at the Shanghai Conservatory, and in 2018 HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University. Ford has written widely on all manner of music and published ten books, most recently The Song Remains the Same with Anni Heino (La Trobe University Press, 2019). He has written, presented and co-produced five radio series for the ABC and, since 1995, presented The Music Show each weekend on Radio National. He was awarded an OAM in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Photo: Jim Rolon
Artist Jane Sheldon - soprano and composer
Jane Sheldon is a soprano and composer who has established an international reputation for highly specialised, groundbreaking art music for voice. Jane’s compositional output includes electronic music, chamber music, opera installations, works for dance companies and large-scale sound installations for museums. Described as “riveting” (New York Times) and “gripping” (Limelight Magazine), Jane’s compositions focus on the experience of altered or transformative states. Her latest album is I am a tree, I am a mouth (“conceptually brilliant… a vocal and compositional triumph, beautifully realised with splendid restraint” – Limelight Magazine). The release was listed in the New Yorker’s Notable Recordings of 2022. Her next album, Flowermuscle, is due out late 2024.