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Canberra International Music Festival / Concert 8, “Do I Matter?”  At the Fitters’ Workshop, May 2. Reviewed by IAN McLEAN. “DO I Matter?” is one of a two part chamber music work in the “Hidden Thoughts” series by Australian composer Katy Abbot, the senior lecturer in composition at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. “Hidden Thoughts” came about following an online survey where more than 200 women submitted answers to questions, such as: “Do you have hidden thoughts and feelings and what have you learned to be brave about?” Those answers became the text for “Do ...

★★★★ Reviewed January 6 The work begins with darkness, silence and undifferentiated shapes, slowly awakened by insects, dim light and the sound of slow breath. A crouching figure slowly emerges from a bed of clay and, in gathering light, the sounds turn to stertorous effort, rising in intensity as the labour of extending the clay bed across the performing area grows. Jane Sheldon's performance of Poem for a dried up river combines opera, poetry, physical theatre and art. Credit:James Brickwood Singer/composer Jane Sheldon's Poem for a dried up river is a musico-dramatic s...