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Jane Sheldon: Flowermuscle

  • Phoenix Central Park 49 O'Connor St Chippendale, NSW, 2008 (map)

Jane's 2022 album ‘I am tree, I am a mouth’ was listed on the New Yorker's Notable Recordings of that year, alongside the Berlin Radio Symphony and Björk. Her follow-up release, ‘Flowermuscle’, comes out June 27, and she's been working with brilliant audio artist and frequent collaborator Bob Scott to create a surround sound performance for Phoenix.

With an international reputation for highly specialised contemporary opera and art music for voice, Jane's own music shows the influence of the avant garde. Described as “riveting” (New York Times) and “gripping and expressive” (Financial Times), Jane’s work focuses on the experience of altered or transformative states of being and her output includes electronic music, chamber music, opera installations, works for dance companies, and large-scale sound installations for museums.

She has also worked extensively with other composers as they create new works for voice, including touring the globe with John Zorn from 2012-2017, and premiering countless new works with Sydney Chamber Opera, where she is an Artistic Associate. She has sung at the Louvre, the Barbican, the Guggenheim, and the Sydney Opera House, and performed at international arts festivals such as Lincoln Center Festival, Sydney Festival, Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival, Prototype Festival, Holland Festival, Resonant Bodies Festival, and Tokyo Festival.

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