Georgina  Bowden

Composer  and  Artist

Figure-ground  -  28th Feb '25  -  Adelaide
Musikfabrik Trio
Figure-ground  -  9th Dec '24  -  Cologne
Musikfabrik Trio
Figure-ground  -  8th Dec '24  -  Hannover
Musikfabrik Trio

An original and mature artistic voice

Dr. Dominic Murcott

A breath of fresh air ... a thought-provoking piece of work

John Alexander

…based on a deep understanding of the nature, character and possibilities of these instruments. In its metaphoric dimensions and strong sound constellations "Figure-ground" is still burning in my mind.

Egbert Hiller

I’m a composer, artist and multidisciplinary creator living in Adelaide, South Australia.

I have Master's degrees in both Music and Architecture. In my work, I transform ideas from arts, sciences and politics into visceral experiences in music and art. They are often spatially designed, drawing on my architecture training. I'm currently focusing on abstractions of walks in Australian nature, involving mapping, phenomenology, colour and quality of light, with inspiration from the vivid palettes of artist Vincent Bioules.

My music has been performed across Europe and Australia; recently at Ensemble Musikfabrik’s studio in Cologne, Hannover New Music’s Zeitlupe series and Ostrava Days Festival in Czechia. As a visual artist my work was recently displayed in the Hahndorf Academy’s Heysen Prize.

Transforming ideas between and amongst disciplines can have unexpected and surprising creative outcomes. Projects range from a concerto for artist and orchestra (Wild Colour), to spatial and site-specific music for large ensemble, with live sound processing (Revelations), to graphic scores playing with the representation of microtones and dynamics (Yaban Ariları).

Other roles have included tutoring / assessment at Universities, creating contemporary music and soundwalking radio programmes, and teaching art, composition and instrumental music. I also work for the Australian Passivhaus Association and assist musical organisations in marketing.

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Figure-ground (trailer) [2024]

Oboe, french horn and double bass | 15’00”

For Ensemble Musikfabrik's Trio - Peter Veale, Florentin Ginot, Christine Chapman

Part of Ensemble Musikfabrik's UNESCO cities of music project

Premiered as part of Hannoversche Gesellschaft für Neue Musik's Zeitlupe series

Composed from drawings of my walks around Uluru, considering its mighty sculptural forms, permanence and absence.

Wild Colour (trailer) [2023]

Concerto for large orchestra and artist | 7’30”

For Ostrava New Orchestra con. Pavel Šnajdr

Premiered in Ostrava Days Festival, 2023

Sonic, spatial and visual distillations of abstract forms, rich colours and sounds noted while hiking in NZ

Interactive artwork made in collaboration with Tim Bowden

A Sky of Lenses [2022]

Prepared handbells, pan lids and water | 7’30”

Written for Ali’O Connell. Premiered in the South Australian Museum, 2022

Exploring bending and distortion, inspired by gravitational lensing in the night sky

Video artwork created by Georgina for the Festival of Laurence Crane at GSMD

Brave Growth [2021]

Shortlisted Artist | Heysen Prize

Emerging Artist Award | West Torrens Art Prize

Oils on Canvas | triptych

Yaban Ariları (Wild Bees) [2020]

Solo Viola - Art Score | 6'00"

For Stephen Upshaw | released on Into the Ocean

A microtonal counterpoint, shown by shifting squares in the score.

The performer interprets the shades of colour and pitch.

Inspired by the moving soundscape of wild bees on Lycian Way in Turkey.

Revelations (excerpt) [2018]

Dancer, electronics, soprano and chorus, violins, brass and wind, bass drums, glass objects and space tube | 4'00" excerpt of 40" work

Collaboration with dancer & choreographer Rosamond Martin.

Apocalyptic, three dimensional play of sound, space and movement, in seven sections

Radium [2018]

Short Opera [to be extended] for strings and female voices | 15'00"

Performed at Trinity Laban'sGold Medal Showcase

developed through Rough for Opera

A harrowing story of WWI factory workers painting clocks with glow-in-the-dark Radium, while it killed them with bone tumors.

Collaged Portraits [2012]

Oil on Canvas

Inspired by the architectural concept of aperspective and its translation into art composition.

Weather Architecture [2012]

Architecture Master's Thesis

A sports research facility involving states of shelter, exposure and weather permeability in site-specific climate design

Contact Georgina