Hyperaurea: Equinox
Hyperaurea: Equinox charts a course through Antarctica, the last frontier on Earth, as experienced by Sean Williams, Arts Fellowship expeditioner to Casey station in 2017, and palaeontologist Professor John Long. Ambient music (Williams) and hypnotic visuals (Katie Cavanagh and Shane Bevin) combine in two unique presentations: an intimate, fully-immersive ambisonic experience, and an open-air iteration in the natural amphitheatre of Flinders University’s Bedford Park campus. Hyperaurea evokes slow seasonal change in a land where there are no trees or flowers, using subtle inversions and reversals in pitch, tone and rhythm to capture the essence of life on an outpost surrounded by vast tracks of nature rarely seen by human eyes.
Presented by: Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts
As well as a composer of experimental ambient music, Sean Williams is a #1 New York Times-bestselling, multi-award-winning author of over sixty books and one hundred and twenty shorter publications. In 2017, he visited Casey station through the Australian Antarctica Division’s Arts Fellowship, to research an alternate history narrative combining the Heroic Age of exploration with War of the Worlds. Since his return, he has published several works inspired by his expedition, his four-hour minimalist album Hyperaurea: Echoes of Antarctica being the most recent in 2023 (available from Projekt Records). He is discipline lead of Creative Writing at Flinders University and was lead composer on recent experimental dance work Bárbaros (2023). Sean is a member of Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts