Join us for a performance that weaves the natural environment with guitar and piano to reveal a sparse and textural soundscape.
Deep Valley, a new album by Australian musicians Seaworthy (Cameron Webb) and Matt Rösner, evolved over a week-long residency at Bundanon where the duo recorded the surrounding landscape, blending environmental soundscapes with guitar, piano, and electronic processing. Inspired by the words of Arthur Boyd “you can’t own a landscape”, Deep Valley records ecosystems in states of flux and transition.
Now returning to the landscape that inspired its creation, the pair will perform this album live in the award-winning Boyd Education Centre on the Shoalhaven River.
Tickets include entry to the Art Museum.
Seaworthy and Matt Rösner
Seaworthy (Cameron Webb) and Matt Rösner have a body of collaborative music and sound works that has been developing for over a decade. Both artists draw strongly from environmental sounds to inform the composition and construction of instrumental sound works. The two artists have released a series of collaborative works, along with ‘Snow Melt’ (12k) produced with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts, there has been the 2010 release ‘Two Lakes’ (12k) inspired by the coastal lake and lagoon ecosystems of the NSW South Coast.
Trained as an environmental scientist, Webb spends many hours in local wetlands and waterways. The sounds of these ecosystems have inspired, and recordings incorporated, into textural drones around which sparse and melodic guitar can be applied. Seaworthy have released a number of albums provided works for film and gallery installations.
Rösner is a sound artist from regional Western Australia. He infuses his work with an organic sense of space and time constructed using various acoustic instruments, custom build software patches and detailed field recording studies. His most recent work, ‘Empty, Expanding, Collapsing’ (Room40), was met with critical acclaim and he has been invited to be showcased at the 2024 WA Museum Boola Bardip experimental concert series.
Two works were produced from their artist residency, including a longform sound installation ‘Bundanon’ that premiered at the 2024 Volume event at the Art Gallery of NSW as part of the Threshold program. The full album of works Deep Valley was released in 2024 on influential New York label 12k.
