by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Alex Galeazzi
Mar 2015 – Apr 2015
Brown’s Mart / Darwin Entertainment Centre
Cast: Kate Worsley, Kyle Walmsley, Kadek Hobman, Kate Wyvill
Set & Costumes: Fiona Bruce
Lighting: Rebecca Adams
Sound / Video design: Panos Couros
Blue Roses curtain drop (music Kate Bush)
Photos: Panos Couros
The Hay Plain is one of my favourite stretches of road. Ive driven it many times. I shot a stop frame animation on 8 Dec 2021, driving from Hay to Balranald, across the Hay Plain in NSW.
Soundtrack added on 18 Dec 2021 by Mx Robert Frost
“Impulse Response” was a 4-hour immersive installation where ceramics, sound, and video converged in a live, elemental dialogue. Master ceramicist Neville Assad-Salha commanded the wheel, shaping large clay forms that grounded the performance, while sound artists Mx Robert Frost and Panos Couros (Atunement) and video artist Liam Somerville (CAPITAL WASTE) amplified the experience. Contact and condenser microphones captured resonances from clay and airborne sounds, crafting an improvised soundscape that responded to the live clay-making process. Video projections intensified these impulses, merging sound, vision, and material into a powerful sensory experience. Audiences roamed freely, enjoyed the bar, and supported Beirut crisis relief through donations. The event was also live-streamed at 7:30 pm Adelaide time (ACDT) on Thursday, 5th December, 2024.
Photos: Liam Somerville
Pentatonic (2024) Nerikomi mid-fire porcelain, custom electronics, music
Pentatonic is a fusion of form and sound: five porcelain platters crafted in the Nerikomi style from stained clay, each serving both as a functional piece and a sound instrument. Resonating with the A minor pentatonic scale, these platters become speakers, activated by transducers powered by a custom microprocessor. This convergence of clay and sound creates a multi-sensory experience, allowing viewers to experience sound as a tactile presence and form as melody.
The universal pentatonic scale—essential in blues, jazz, Ancient Greek, and meditative music—provides the foundation, resonating through layered Nerikomi patterns that embody harmony and unity. Created using slab production, staining, and Nerikomi techniques, each platter showcases contrasting textures and subtle, curved forms, emphasised by a translucent matte glaze. Colours are chosen to harmonise with the ritual of serving food, adding a minimalistic, sensory dimension.
Pentatonic bridges my work as a sound designer with my passion for ceramics, merging auditory and tactile art.
Music by Atunement (Panos Couros and Mx Robert Frost)
Atunement is an experimental project blending modern electronics with musique concrète, drone, ambient, and noise. Driven by improvisation, Panos Couros and Mx Robert Frost unite their distinct approaches to create soundscapes that elevate consciousness, exploring the intersection of acoustic and electronic sound.
* All sound in video below emanates from the ceramic platters
by Sandra Thibodeaux
The Age of Bones is a biting and magical satire set deep beneath the sea!
The Age of Bones traces the story of Ikan, an Indonesian boy who goes fishing one day and fails to return. Fearing the worst, his family hires a famed seafarer to track him down – he finds nothing. Combining Indonesian puppetry, music and digital projection, The Age of Bones follows Ikan’s fantastical story from Indonesia to his eventual imprisonment ‘down under,’ and his fight to get home to his family.
A heartfelt and darkly funny tale inspired by the real-life stories of 110 Indonesian boys allegedly imprisoned in Australian adult prisons for working on refugee boats.
A Satu Bulan, Teater Satu and Performing Lines Co-Production
Writer/Co-Producer: Sandra Thibodeaux
Co-Directors: Iswadi Pratama & Alex Galeazzi
Translator: Kadek Krishna Adidharma
Set Designer: Dann Barber
Original Design: Iswadi Pratama
Costume Designers: Imas Sobariah & Dann Barber
AV Design: Mic Gruchy
Composer/Musical Director: Panos Couros
Lighting Designer: Philip Lethlean
Puppeteers: I Made Gunanta & I Wayan Sira
Production Manager: Rhys Robinson
Stage Manager: Gina Bianco
Lighting Associate: Siobhain Geaney
Producer: Pippa Bailey (Performing Lines)
Performers: Deri Efwanto, Mohammad Gandi Maulana, Imam Setia Hagi, Budi Laksana, Imas Sobariah, Kadek Hobman & Ella Watson-Russell
22 Feb – 5 Mar | AsiaTOPA – La Mama Courthouse, VIC
8 – 11 March | Ainslie & Gorman Arts Centres, Canberra, ACT
15 – 18 March | Australian Theare for Young People, Wharf 1, Sydney, NSW
22 – 25 March, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, NSW
30 Mar – 9 Apr | Browns Mart Arts, Darwin, NT
Photos: Tristan Hooft and various anonymous