NEAL PRESENTS
JOURNEY HOME
THURS 14 JULY
DOORS 7.30PM
PERFORMANCE 8.00-9.00PM
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General Admission $15.00
Concession $10.00
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The New and Experimental Arts Laboratory (NEAL) is a Geelong-based collective of musicians and programmers, led by Vicki Hallett and Jem Savage.
NEAL curates performances by world-class composers and experimental musicians, and have partnered with Platform since 2018.
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Music composed and performed by Andrea Keller (piano)
Photographs by Erik Keller & Hayley Miro Browne
Film by Hayley Miro Browne
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please contact us directly: hello@platformarts.org.au
Please note, Platform Arts is a dry venue.
The late Australian jazz artist Allan Browne once said "every great story is usually about the journey home.” Inspired by these words, pianist/composer Andrea Keller and filmmaker Hayley Miro Browne’s collaboration Journey Home is a visual and musical tribute that delves into the importance of family, establishing memories and reliving your historical past.
Hayley Miro Browne’s visuals draw from her own childhood memories with her late father, respected jazz musician Allan Browne. Using techniques for filming slide photography, she has created a shared narrative for this performance, using photos from the archives of Keller’s late father Erik Keller. Andrea Keller’s piano composition, created in response to Miro’s film, embodies all the complex emotions that come with a journey into one’s past.
Through the artists’ shared response to grief and loss, Journey Home grapples with displacement and distance in extraordinary circumstances.
Melbourne-based Andrea Keller’s Journey Home sounds like a love song to piano… Keller approaches her free improvs with zen-like openness, eschewing preconceptions. [Tom Greenland, New York City Jazz Record]
To my ear, Keller creates some of the most beautiful piano music I’ve heard… we should be grateful we're alive to bear witness to the beauty of the pianism of Andrea Keller, improvising artist, whose unique musical response to the world is more telling than any perceived ideal of beauty, in academia or otherwise. [Ian Muldoon, The Beauty of Andrea Keller]
Spotlight: ABC Radio National
