In this elaborate system of double-bell trumpet improvisations, live photography, and digital software design, Gradient asks us to reflect on compulsive modern behaviours and the ways we digitally represent ourselves and our experiences.

Callum G’Froerer, one of Australia’s leading contemporary instrumentalists, improvises in hour-long cycles, slowly making his way around the cavernous space. Using software developed by renowned media designer Nick Roux, G’Froerer’s trumpet playing controls large-scale video projections, blending and mixing layers of a photo library created in real time by award-winning composer and photographer Olivia Davies. Samples of G’Froerer’s performance are played back – warped, chopped, stretched – providing an ever-changing soundscape.

Gradient is the noise of multiple arguments – minimalism versus hoarding, attention versus boredom, sound versus light, humans versus machines, and acoustics versus architecture. This durational work spans six hours, where audiences are welcome to drop in and out of the performance or stay and let their attentions wander across the hypnotic sounds and sights of this incredible and immersive work.

*Photo Credit for Gradient documentation: Edify Media