“This is contemporary music at its most relevant – it is simultaneously inward and outward focused in addressing the challenge of its existence and its capacity to produce something great.” - Melonie Bayl-Smith
About
Vivid, revolutionary, inclusive, moving and must-see. Winner of the APRA/AMCOS 2023 Art Music Award for Experimental Practice Eve's genre defying compositions bring orchestral music into dialogue with immersive and interactive technologies for screen, art music and mass festival audiences.
The composer of three operas, a symphony, chamber music, film scores, game soundtracks and sound art, Eve's work has been experienced by millions of people globally at Salisbury Cathedral, Burning Man, New York University, VIVID Sydney, MONA, GOMA, Brisbane Festival, World Science Festival, the Arts Centre Melbourne and the State Library of Queensland. As Lead Composer for Textile Audio, Eve crafts City Symphony, an award winning interactive AR music experience overlaying Brisbane CBD (available via iOS and Android app stores). To make City Symphony, Eve collaborated with 850 local artists and community members to shape a music and story experience depicting Brisbane's past, present and future.
Eve creates artworks in collaboration with community groups, festivals, researchers, and NGOs to achieve community transformation goals. Recent projects have explored gendered and racial violence, climate change, disaster recovery and refugee rights. Eve's work, Vocal Womb, is an example of this practice, allowing the audience to explore the relationship between voice, identity and power by stepping into and directly manipulating the voice of another. The premier was called the "#1 coolest thing at MOFO 2018" (Timeout Melbourne) and "One of the must-see music/artworks of the 2018 festival... a deeply considered engagement with the history and traditions of opera" (The Conversation).
By day, Eve works as an Associate Professor of Music Composition and Creative Technologies at the University of Queensland. She is also the Creative Director of CREATE Lab (Creative Research in Emerging Arts and Technology), a research facility dedicated to the creation and cross-disciplinary study of new Australian art works.
Most importantly, Eve is the proud mum of an eight-year-old who loves swimming and playing violin. Eve lives and works in Brisbane, Australia on Turrbal and Jagera Country.
“One of the must-see music/art works of the 2018 festival was Eve Klein's Vocal Womb … a deeply considered engagement with the history and traditions of opera.” - Dr Svenja Kratz
“Excellence in Experimental Practice was awarded to Eve Klein for City Symphony, a Brisbane sound walk revolutionising audiences' engagement with urban environments, underpinned by an ethos of collaborative inclusivity and accessibility.”
— The Australian Music Centre