Silent Symphony at Dark Mofo 2023, Hobart

UVA returns to Dark Mofo, Tasmania’s midwinter festival celebrating the dark, with a new work commissioned for the festival’s 10th anniversary.

Inspired by Ancient Greek philosophers' belief that the universe produced an inaudible kind of music, Silent Symphony traces resonant frequencies and synchronicities occurring at the cosmic scale and explores how they relate to our sense of harmony.

Along 55m eight custom kinetic sculptures cast rotating planes of light across the room. Oscillating between order and chaos, the beams of light slice through space, creating complex patterns and interactions with the architecture. Drawing inspiration from the movements and correlations of celestial objects, the work physicalizes invisible energetic forces, such as gravity, giving them form as light and sound. Unfolding as a generative performance, the work is a dynamic, constantly evolving interplay of elements that never repeats.

Silent Symphony features a sonic interpretation of the celestial patterns by composer Ben Frost and sound programming by Dave Meckin.

Silent Symphony is on display between 8th - 11th and 14th - 18th June