Damian Barbeler

Damian Barbeler is an Australian composer and multimedia artist whose works have been performed and broadcast around the world. He is recognised for his lush, emotional creations inspired by the natural environment. His work frequently explores our personal relationship and connection to the landscape, through an awakening to elements of texture, light, and colour. He often hikes and travels in the bush for inspiration. Damian regularly collaborates with colleagues from diverse fields including film, architecture, media arts, and dance, and often incorporates his own visual, sculptural and lighting elements in musical projects.

The new work with music by Damian Barbeler and words by Judith Nangala Crispin is commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Richard Wilkins and will be premiered by The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge on our national tour. 

Judith Nangala Crispin

Judith Nangala Crispin is a Canberra-based poet and visual artist, with a background in music. She has published two collections of poetry, and a book of images and poems made while living with the Warlpiri people. She is a member of Oculi photographic collective and was Musica Viva Australia’s Artist in Residence from 2021. Her work includes themes of displacement and identity loss, a reflection on her own lost Aboriginal ancestry, but primarily it is centred on the concept of connection with Country. She traces her ancestry to the Bpangerang people of North-Eastern Victoria and the NSW Riverina; and to Ghana, the Ivory Coast, France, Ireland and Scotland.