Queen Victoria Gardens

A percussive composition with tentacles that reach for limits (both self-imposed and unavoidable)

Carmen Chan Schoenborn is an educator, musician and composer whose work resonates at the avant-garde edges of percussion. Her graphic compositions have been featured internationally, but you’re just as likely to find her bending notes at Make It Up Club, Melbourne/Naarm’s longrunning improvision night.  

Carmen’s embracing the pavilion’s liminal grey energy with a new composition and performance for marimba and vibraphone, exploring the chaos and tentacles of life. Taken together, it’s a work about grief, loss, adventure, gratefulness, darkness, and the idea of ‘doing it for love’—all elements that acknowledge sometimes unexpected shifts in circumstances that can impact of how ‘at home’ you feel from one day to the next.