Bundanon

Moses Kington-Walberg is a sound artist working within composition, improvisation and interdisciplinary settings.

His practice spans a range of contexts including experimental and improvised music, new orchestral and chamber composition, concert producing, Indigenous Australian intercultural collaborations, and cross-disciplinary productions. His compositions often explore concepts of ephemerality, ecology, and controlled chaos, resulting in music that is texturally driven and dynamic. A central aspect of his practice involves empowering active and imaginative performance, which he explores through the incorporation of explorative/graphic music notation, varying degrees of interpretive latitude, and deep artistic collaboration with the musicians he writes for.

Moses studied at the University of Western Australia and the University of Melbourne, and has collaborated with a variety of groups including the Australian Youth Orchestra, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Art Orchestra, STRUT Dance, and FORM building a state of creativity. He has worked with distinguished musicians including Amos Roach, Ashley William Smith, Jonathan Fitzgerald, Shaun Lee-Chen, John Keene, and Susan Flavell.

In Residence at Bundanon

For his residency, Moses will begin developing a new series of instrumental and electro-acoustic works that intimately draw from natural Australian environments such as those around Bundanon. Beyond finding general inspiration, he wishes to explore new compositional methods that more comprehensively render the dynamic, reactive, multilayered, and three-dimensional soundworlds that can be found within active ecosystems. His residency will comprise conducting field recordings, site-specific improvisations and score-sketching, researching the diverse sound profiles surrounding Bundanon, and composing soundscapes reminiscent of specific environments.