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A truly unique sonic vision.

Acclaimed composer, artist, and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has never neatly fit into the ambient genre conversation she’s most often associated with, traversing avant-garde pop, neoclassical, and the otherwise uniquely unclassifiable.

About the concert

Her performance in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall celebrates the launch of her most ambitious, intuitive and inviting work to date out on Ghostly International. Let’s Turn It Into Sound moves beyond the ambient, favouring a more baroque and robust form of avant-pop. The music bursts with sharp vocal harmonies and detailed sound design, forming a truly unique sonic vision.

Over three frenzied months, recording alone in her home studio, Smith allowed herself to pursue new experiments to accompany her usual toolkit of modular, analogue, and rare synthesizers (including her signature Buchla), orchestral sounds, and the voice. She created a new vocal processing technique and gave herself permission to pursue a pacing that felt intuitive, rather one that followed typical song structures.

The result is a playful, inquisitive, excitable work which appeals to us as social, sensitive animals, and invites listeners into a wholly idiosyncratic world that is both experimental and human. Her performance at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall will peek into a secret realm: one that delights both in the discovery of the magic hidden in the everyday, and the shimmer that lingers long after the portal itself shuts.

‘The album is a puzzle. [It] is a symbol of receiving a compound of a ton of feelings from going out into a situation, and the song titles are instructions to breaking apart the feelings and understanding them.’ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Praise for Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

‘Smith’s usual meditative, ambient-leaning approach is dialed back in favour of soaring wonky pop, ornate neoclassical and even quasi dancefloor moments. It gives rise to her most joyous music yet.’ MOJO

‘The ever-productive electronic musician never ceases to amaze.’ Clash Magazine

With Special Guest

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith will be supported by immersive music and sound design artist, Cool Maritime

COVID Safety

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Artists & Set Times

Artists

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith buchla easel, synthesizer
Sean Hellfritsch aka Cool Maritime

Set Times

7.30pm – 8pm: Cool Maritime
8pm – 8.30pm: Interval
8.30pm – 9.20pm: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith