In 1962, pioneer American electronic-music composer Raymond Scott released Soothing Sounds for Baby, three albums of ambient electronic music designed to lull babies to sleep. Each record targeted a different age group—one to six, six to twelve, and twelve to eighteen months—the music getting more complex with each volume.
Amidst our exhibition, Duty of Care: Part One, Madeleine Cocolas and Joseph Burgess will present compositions inspired by the idea of therapeutic music. Cocolass’ collage soundscape will incorporate field recordings, whale song, breathing, vintage nursery rhymes, binaural beats, the voice of Sigmund Freud, and more. Burgess’ quadrophonic composition will draw on Scott’s three-part generative structure and incorporate modular synths, live strings, and plunderphonics.
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Madeleine Cocolas is a Meanjin/Brisbane–based composer who creates post classical and ambient instrumental music. Released by Room40, her album Spectral garnered positive notices from Pitchfork, The Wire, and Electronic Sound, and featured on Bandcamp’s Album of the Day.
Joseph Burgess (aka Unregistered Master Builder) is an artist, musician, sound designer from Portland, Oregon, now based in Meanjin/Brisbane. His albums—No Rego No Problem, Harshmallow, and Unregistered Master Builder—are on Spotify. He works at the University of Queensland and has worked on projects for Bleach, People Artist Place, Modifyre, Vivid, Curiocity, and Woodford Folk Festival.
Unregistered Master Builder. Photo: Fin Wegener
