Little Operations: Hilary Kleinig

In 2018, musician/composer Hilary Kleinig presented elements from her new work in development, The Lost Art of Listening, for prepared piano and smartphones, collaborating with Erik Griswold as part of Little Operations.

Informed by research into how people experience and value music in an age of 24-hour connectedness and distraction, the work employed the very object of our distraction—the smartphone—to play an active part in a shared sonic experience, bringing people together to meditate communally on sound, music and listening.

This Little Operations was presented in partnership with Arts Centre Melbourne.