Diaspora
A Science Fiction Revelation
About
Diaspora plunges audiences into an intensely strange and transfixing world of science-fiction inspired sound and vision. Set amidst an uncanny visual world of projections, holograms and lasers, Diaspora presents a uniquely utopian reading of the relationship between humans and software.
From the seatshaking sub-bass pulsations of old school synthesizers, to ethereal electric violin lines and the purity of the acoustic human voice, this ensemble of extraordinary musicians evoke the complex and multi-layered build of a digital lifeform.
Hallucinatory. Visceral. Exhilarating.
Collaborators
Awards
2020 Nomination, APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards, 'Work of The Year' Electro /Acoustic
2020 Winner, Victorian Green Room Awards Experimental and Emerging, 'Best Production'
2020 Winner, Victorian Green Room Awards Experimental and Emerging, 'Visual Design'
2020 Nomination, Victorian Green Room Awards Experimental and Emerging, 'Sound Performance'
2020 Nomination, Victorian Green Room Awards Experimental and Emerging, 'Ensemble'
Presentation History
2025 Sejong S, Korea, Seoul Performing Arts Festival [18-19 October]
2019 The Substation, Australia, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts [3-6 October]
Reviews
' ...an exhilarating visually and sonically immersive sci-fi experience – a fathomlessly strange encounter with the future as essentially “other”, but also intimately of the moment. More people should get a chance to see it.'
'Diaspora is quixotic, atmospheric, visually and sonically spectacular … a profoundly moving out-of-body experience.'
'The sci-fi themes are apparent throughout, but it’s the visceral experience of this work that will stick in its audience’s minds.'
'… a mind-bending exploration of post-humanism that alternately dazzles and confounds.'
'It is simultaneously exciting and unsettling, inspiring and mysterious, triumphant and melancholy, just like the concept of the future itself.'
'… a visceral experience that transcends and overwhelms the senses.
Partners
This project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. This project was also assisted by the Besen Family Foundation, Lucy Guerin Inc, The SUBSTATION and the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts.
