Hadrian
Premiere: Ensemble Offspring, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, NSW, Australia, June 2022.
Ensemble Offspring's 2021 Noisy Women Commission
Hadrian is a personal work, exploring composer Eve Klein's experience of rebuilding her family home after flooding at a time when other Australians were experiencing successive climate-related disasters. To unpack the impact of climate change on our everyday lives and homes, Hadrian interweaves Eve's story with the experiences of other Australians by incorporating objects donated from other people's homes into the work's musical palette. A scrolling graphic score (presented in theDecibel ScorePlayer) depicts weather events leading to the composer's loss alongside data evidencing Australia's overall trajectory of climate change.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.