Shock Lines
30 Apr to 3 May 2025
sound walk and live performance daily from 3pm
Glassworks Foyer
in partnership with Canberra International Music Festival
Shock Lines bring together three perspectives on the materiality of glass in a collaboration between glass artist Caitlin Dubler, percussionist Niki Johnson and sound artist Natasha Dubler. They each draw from their disciplines to explore the unpredictable relationship between experimental kiln forming processes and glass instruments.
With Canberra Glassworks and the Canberra International Music Festival, Shock Lines are presenting large scale glass-sandstone sculptures with live performances and an immersive soundwalk staged each afternoon of the festival. Staged in the foyer of Canberra Glassworks, immerse yourself in the visceral sounds of glass made from live percussion and electronic sounds sampled from the glass itself and from the humming industrial building.
In this work Shock Lines takes cues from the scale and acoustics of sandstone. From the reflective echoes of cliffs, gorges and valleys to the fine sandstone powder fused with glass frit in the kiln. Materially and sonically the work moves from the macro to the micro, from the warm and resonant to the textural and gritty.
This work is supported by Creative Australia
Performance Schedule
Wednesday 30 April 3.00pm – 3.50pm
Thursday 1 May 3.00pm – 3.50pm
Friday 2 May 3.00pm – 3.50pm
Saturday 3 May 3.00pm – 3.50pm
Canberra International Music Festival
Canberra International Music Festival presents a festival of classical and contemporary art music in May each year, with programming unique to our national capital. CIMF’s artistic scope accommodates the breadth of the Western classical tradition – early and medieval music, baroque, classical, romantic, 20th Century and new music – alongside classical traditions from around the world, diverse Indigenous music, and the spectrum of contemporary art music.
Program running 30 April to 4 May 2025
