Borders

Past Performances

Ralph Forehead is a Launceston born musician working in Hobart, Tasmania.

Primarily a guitarist, Ralph started on classical guitar before moving into rock,
and jazz playing. For several years his focus has been on flamenco guitar and he has studied extensively in Andalucia, Spain. More recently, he has performed with various jazz groups including Recliner and leads his own originals band, The Red Hot Roosters, which has supported the likes of Chris Isaak and Ross Wilson.

Nowadays he often finds himself singing as well as performing on the guitar, and also as a voice-over artist.  Ralph majored in Chinese and Japanese at university and was born to be a Mandarin-speaking panda.

Constantine is one of Australia’s most prolific composers in the genre of opera and music theatre. His avant-garde approach to the presentation of opera has resulted in hybrid opera such as Days and Nights with Christ, To Traverse Water, MIKROVION (Small Life 36 Images in a Phantom Flux of Life), The Divine Kiss and Tesla – Lightning in His Hand. His works range from large scale site – specific  to gallery pieces.

His work Prayer Bells which draws on traditions of religious chant, has toured extensively with US & European premieres taking place in 2010 & 11.

Constantine has been the recipient of numerous international commissions and awards. In 2004 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship. Within a Prayer at Lamplighting was commissioned by the China National Symphony Orchestra Australian Tour, to commemorate thirty years of diplomatic ties with China. In 1997 his Incantation II for soprano and digital delay won the International Valentino Bucchi Vocal Prize in Rome.

Since the formation of his company IHOS in 1990, he has created and presented five full scale operas, nine music theatre works and commissioned nationally 29 short to 50 minute Laboratory works for his IHOS Young Singers Laboratory Program.

Lyndall’s career has been divided equally between performance on the operatic stage and writing. Her experience in repertory opera and contemporary music performance gives her a unique insight into the opportunities and scope of contemporary music theatre and opera production.

Lyndall commenced her vocal training at the Conservatorium of Music in Hobart and completed her study at Australia’s leading opera training school at the Queensland Conservatorium.  She commenced work with the Opera Queensland Company before graduating from the Conservatorium program and continued to work with the company for 10 years before returning to Tasmania in 2002.

Her interest in performing and producing contemporary composition began in Queensland while performing with the Music for the Heart and Mind series, which spawned one of Australia’s best-known contemporary music ensembles, Topology.

While working in arts administration and writing for journals, marketing and creative outlets, Lyndall began work as a co-producer and performer with IHOS Music Theatre and Opera. She has since worked in various capacities backstage and on stage with IHOS in Euphonic Temples, Da Ponte, The Lunchbox, Kitchen Table Rondo and Borders.

Carl Higgs is a Hobart based digital artist with a passion for abstract, immersive visual and sound design work.  Artistically involved in productions by various theatre companies including IHOS, Backspace Theatre, PLOT and Deep End Theatre, Carl has a penchant for experimental and genre blurring work. 

Carl’s work has also been in demand as visual reinforcement for live performances by popular indie rock bands such as Paint Your Golden Face , Tiger Choir, All Fires The Fire, Pikelet and Viva Computer as well as events such as Hobart + Music = Yeah. 

Graduating from the Tasmanian School of Art with a degree in E-media in 2008, Carl has recently received first class honours for his thesis on the aestheticisation of the genre Chinese contemporary art.

In Borders Carl has used real time video resynthesis in a custom coded environment across multiple projectors to evoke displacement, vulnerability, hope and paranoia.