Acoustic Life of Sheds is a site-specific new music work, inspired by place.
Founded in the sweeping landscape of North West Tasmania, Acoustic Life of Sheds combines sound artists and communities, farming and maritime families in celebrating the culture and acoustics of their working sheds.
Acoustic Life of Sheds is an award-winning event which has wowed audiences in Tasmania for 7 years, and was presented on the mainland for the first time for Sydney Festival in 2022. Since 2015 Acoustic Life of Sheds has engaged 90 composers, musicians, visual artists, audio artists and filmmakers and produced 22 new works. The event enchanted the Tamar River at Mona Foma in January 2021, selling out within 48 hours of tickets opening and sold out at three consecutive Ten Days on the Island festivals.
In 2018 Acoustic Life of Sheds won Best Regional Event at the APRA/AMCOS Art Music Awards.
What's On
Acoustic Life of Zinc, Europe
Our acclaimed new audio-visual work is touring to Europe. Featuring an immersive soundscape created purely from sounds recorded in the smelter and composed by Aaron Hopper and Paul Corfiatis, with a mesmerising visual installation created by artists, a filmmaker and an animator. Zinc premiered at Mona Foma 2021 in partnership with Nyrstar and North West Support Services, and in 2022 it will tour to The Netherlands, France and Belgium supported by Nyrstar.
23 Sept-15 Oct, 2022
Acoustic Life of Farm Sheds, Meander Valley (TAS)
Big hART’s award-winning Acoustic Life of Farm Sheds returns to agriCULTURED this August, transforming sheds in the Meander Valley. Get out on the road and find a different side of lutruwita/Tasmania – forgotten rural architecture interpreted by artists under the shadow of the Great Western Tiers.
6-7 August, 2022