Awaken Thy Dragon

23 March 2024, Church St. Studios, Sydney

Anna Koch, (bass clarinet) Tamara Friebel (electronics)

Awaken Thy Dragon
The spirit-field calling

Fairy Woods

You won’t be invited into the Spirit world unless you’re kind

Nocturne

Awake the Dragon

The Magical Weightlessness of Being

When I first looked at the picture by Sydney Long, I had some light and shiny music in my head with all the golden tones of the drawing……but what you wrote has such a raw strength to it, I’d even call it primeval. So the nymph isn’t just a beautiful woman who summons birds, but creates whole new worlds with her female energy. Awaken thy dragon fits so perfectly. And maybe the percussive piano is the chattering and dancing of the birds or it’s the dragon who needs to lose his chains first. (Anna)

…..somehow the starting point of these "soft" australian symbolist artworks were a launchpad for more visceral energies, and it is the year of the wood dragon in the chinese astrological calendar .. so something came together….(Tamara)

Sponsor: 2024 Staatstipendium (Austrian Scholarship) Tamara Friebel: Austrian Funding for Art, Culture & Sport (Bundesministerium Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport)