CHARLOTTE LEAMON
sharing stories of places and time through sound
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Scalp returns to 21 Shepherd Street to present their 3rd program, “Scalp 003: Sing Warmly”, an evening of music that walks the line between performance and sound installation. Making the space an equally collaborative entity, each piece will investigate acoustically spatialised sound in distinctly individual ways.
- "I am sitting in a room" (1969), Alvin Lucier
- "Four Meditations for Orchestra" (1996), Pauline Oliveros
- "Approaching a Mother, May 13-19, and a Winter" (2026)*, Louis Wishart
- "Intertidal Pools" (2026)*, Charlotte Leamon
Intertidal Pools
Composed for SCALP Ensemble
July 23 2026
About the work
“Intertidal Pools” depicts the ocean-scape of Gerringong rockpool through an immersive sonic landscape, with spatialised performers moving around the space as a living ocean, tracing the ebb and flow of currents.
Déjà Vu (already seen)
for piano and tape
Composed for Liam Furey
Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part of the ANAM Set 2026 and written for Liam Furey, to be premiered during ANAM’s 2026 recital season at the Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne.
The 2026 ANAM Set commissions are supported by the Anthony and Sharon Lee Foundation.
A collaborative and open work, intended to create a space to listen to Earth’s shouts: soundscapes, stories, screams, and cries. These represent site-specific struggles for life on Earth - by humans and non-humans alike - that together create the choir of the planet.Listen to and read about over 30 sound artists from all over the Globe - and we invite you to contribute.
DANCING WITH DEATH
Commission · Illuminated NOW!
The Australian Haydn Ensemble
Save the Dingo
The dingo is a highly misrepresented native species, defined as ‘noxious’, ‘invasive’ and ‘pests’. They are the only Australian mammal to not be protected by law which allows for the brutal killing of these creatures through baits, caging, and shooting.
Many Australians are fighting for dingo rights, to stop the vilification of these animals and the brutal murdering and glorification of their death. The dingo is incredibly vital to the Australian environment and communities all around Australia.
I hope, just as many others do, to turn around this narrative and protect our beautiful dingo.
About the work
Dancing with Death celebrates the Australian dingo, taking the listener through the perspective of the mammal as it hunts in the wild desert. Through pulsing rhythms, sudden shifts of hope and fear, the music mirrors the dingoes struggle for survival. A very cautious, highly intelligent and determined creature as it hides and pounces upon their prey.
But when does the narrative shift? This piece invites the audience into the world of the dingo, are they hunting, or being hunted?
Dancing with Death is both a literal and symbolic pursuit. At its heart is the dingo: a creature caught in a cycle of violence and survival, whose future depends not only on its agility in the wild, but on the narratives we choose to tell, and most importantly change.
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