You don't want to break it into little pieces, and then spend a whole loft of time gluing it back together. There's a certain amount of respect you have to bring. Yet , one of five works on the program, which includes Steve Reich's City Life and Percy Grainger's Blithe Bells . The Bryars piece is a tapeloop of a homeless man singing the words of an old hymn. To many, fronting an orchestra might seem a far cry from the high-octane performances of Midnight Oil, but not to Garrett.
Music is like emotional food.
If you are feeding off it and not making too many judgments about it, just letting it wash, that is a vital thing. For Leunig, the vital element has been the journey, not the destination. The psychological grapplings with each other and talking and sharing long conversations, gently sounding each other out. The collaboration is more, not to do with what we are producing, but just two humans find out about each other. The ACO national tour begins in Melbourne on Saturday and moves to Sydney for performances on May 5 and 10.