Midmeste

Description

Australian composer-performers
Judith Hamann and James Rushford
have worked together in countless
projects for two decades, perhaps most notably in Golden Fur, their trio with Sam
Dunscombe. Black Truffle is pleased to announce Midmeste, their first work as a duo.
Its title is Middle English for ‘the middlemost point’, alluding to how the piece builds
on the points of overlap between the highly personalised musical languages Hamann
and Rushford have developed in recent years. Performed on cello and a variety of
pipe organs, Midmeste is a spacious, sometimes unsettling exploration of their
shared interest in alternative tunings, psychoacoustic phenomena, the physical
properties of their instruments, and the usually peripheral sounds generated by the
performing body.