A Panoply of grey: for guitar and loop station.

I arrived in Falls Creek as the Artist in Residence for three weeks as the year changed from 2021 to 2022.  I had never visited Alpine National park, having recently transplanted to Victoria, and all I knew was that I wanted to respond to the landscape, whatever I might find.  My initial response was about all the textures and colours, the infinite variety in the snow gums, the spiky heath, the granite tors, the billowing fog.  My overwhelming impression was that of a glorious variety of greys -  but I didn’t want to evoke just grey, I wanted to somehow evoke my impression that all the colours that populated this landscape had a dash of white and black and them.  Over a period of a week the word ‘panoply’ came – meaning an extensive and impressive collection – so A Panoply of Grey came to life.

In the past I have used loop stations for projects with choreographers and as trance background but this is the first time I’ve put the loops and the patterns to go over the loops into an official score that others can also play…. there is more room here for experimentation. This work combines guitar and loop in three different ways for the landscape pieces, and features solo guitar for the insect character pieces.