Artist in residence: Aviva Endean

Composer, clarinetist, improviser and performance artist Aviva Endean is Artist in Residence during Music Meeting 2024. This special Australian musician dedicates her artistic life to connecting people and their environment by making them listen attentively to the unknown between sound and music.

Endean creates remarkable sonic landscapes in which she also actively puts the listener to work to discover new sounds, such as during the projects A Face Like Yours and Hear Muffs that she presents during Music Meeting. Her solo debut cinder : ember : ashes was nominated for the prestigious Melbourne Prize for Music 2019. Her latest album is called Moths and Stars.

Fun facts are that Endean's mother is Dutch and her grandfather was born in Nijmegen. Aviva's visit to Music Meeting is therefore also a return to her roots.

Hear Muffs

Met de Hear Muffs hoor je geluiden die zich aan de uiterste grenzen van je waarneming bevinden. Kom naar de infobalie en grijp de kans om het festivalterrein te verkennen terwijl je een buitengewone auditieve ervaring ondergaat.

A Face Like Yours

A Face Like Yours invites the audience to take part in a sonic exploration of their own face; the experience ‘amplified’ by inserting foam earplugs into their ears. Following the visual instructions from the performer on screen the audience are led through a series of actions to create a soundscape that only they can hear.

The piece leads the player through a series of thuds, flickers, hums, squishes, tingles, powerful bass tones and miniature sounds, as they explore the varied textures and sonic landscapes of their own head. A Face Like Yours uses the medium of silent film to create a visual score, requiring the active participation and imagination of its viewers to sound the work.

Intimate Sound Immersion

Aviva Endean’s 15-minute solo performance for one blindfolded audience member offers a uniquely personal auditory experience. Listeners are transported into the depths of their own imaginations in a work that occupies a space between experimental performance and immersive sound therapy. Foregrounding the fragile sounds of everyday objects alongside the elusive, shadowy tones of the bass clarinet, the work teases and massages the ears of the solitary audience member, whose temporal and sensory awareness will be challenged and disrupted in an intensely intimate sonic experience.

This unique performance is sold out.