ANAM Set 2025 Composer: Work Title and Instrumentation to be announced.
This ANAM Set commission was generously supported by the Anthony and Sharon Lee Foundation
About the composer:
Carolyn Schofield is an electroacoustic composer, synthesist and pianist, known predominantly for her arresting live performances and recordings under her solo moniker Fia Fiell.
As Fia Fiell, she performs on multiple keyboard synthesisers with potent pianistic sensitivity, playing and processing them in real time to create hauntingly ethereal sonic worlds. As an electroacoustic composer, she combines this distinctive approach with a spacious and meditative language for acoustic instrumentation, seeking to evoke the free and fluid movements of the natural world.
Her tactile, intricate and improvisatory compositions derive from contemplations on deep listening, growth and transcendence. Silk-gentle and immensely powerful, the sound worlds she creates seem to spirit-forth from immaterial planes – bathing audiences in a nebulous melange of lush melodic cycles and spectral drones. Time and rhythm are approached as if elastic – like an organic membrane breathing and pulsing autonomically.
A prolific solo performer, Schofield’s work has been met with devoted audiences in electronic, experimental, and contemporary classical worlds alike; recognised by commissions for Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio, the Australian Art Orchestra, Play On and The Melbourne Recital Centre, and appearances at Dark Mofo, Rising Festival, Phoenix Central Park, Room40’s Open Frame and more.
Schofield’s solo and collaborative recordings have appeared on Nice Music, Longform Editions, Chapter Music and Room40 among others, and she’s collaborated on numerous critically acclaimed film, theatre and installation works in Melbourne. Her recent deep listening work for Longform Editions, ‘Endless Filament’, presents a distinctive and dynamic approach to drone music through a constant flowing, unfurling and building of tones and subtle melodies; an approach that contrasts with the lo-fi improvisatory and cyclic melodic language of her debut album ‘All In The Same Room’ – described in Bandcamp’s Best Cassette Releases of 2018 as coming ‘awfully close to perfection.’