Kitty Xiao

In flesh
solo cello & electronics
2021
approx. 8:00

Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part The ANAM Set (2021) and written for Hamish Jamieson and given its world premiere on 30 November 2021 at the Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne. The ANAM Set was funded by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative.

Upcoming performance at The ANAM Set Festival May 13 to 15 2022, Melbourne (AU).
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In flesh is a work about body, contact and tactility.

The composition and electronics take on a Frankenstein-esque approach, composed entirely from samples of the cello; field recordings, which are stripped down, taken apart and put back together.

There is a gestural persistence and compulsiveness in the work, a desire for sound to envelop, enter, leak or seep through, to completely embody one’s own skin.


sample of score