Photo: Dark: Antikythera, Oratunga Station, Adnyamathanha Country. Courtesy Jesse Budel.

“…Smart, performing on her specially commissioned Electric Cristal (similar to a Cristal Baschet), a laptop and a ROLI Seaboard, and Daniel Pitman performing on laptop, synthesiser and electric guitar and deploying sampled sounds including spoken word, created a mesmerising soundscape that dramatically evoked the wonders of the universe and our perception of it.

The work is in six movements: Black Hole, Rings of Saturn, Sky and Earth reflect one another, Space Junk, Milky Way and Moon.
Smart’s and Pitman’s rich and complex orchestration moved around the speaker array, inducing the feeling of sitting within a sonic counterpart to that other great astronomical observatory, Stonehenge, while its stone pillars speak and move about like actors on a stage…”

– Chris Reid, Limelight Magazine

Credits:

Composed by Gabriella Smart and Daniel Pitman
Seaboard Roli Keyboard & Electric Cristal*: Gabriella Smart
Audio Design, Sampling, Electronics: Daniel Pitman 

Composed in 2022 with support from Arts South Australia.