ACO and Bill Henson

In 2019, the Australia Chamber Orchestra will revisit their original 2005 collaboration with artist Bill Henson, Luminous. A ground-breaking, cross-genre musical and visual feast, the updated performance will feature indie Israeli-Australian singer-songwriter Lior.

Henson’s haunting, dramatic photography remains the visual focus. His night-time urban landscapes and moody explorations of sensuality – twilight zones between day and night, male and female, youth and adulthood, urban and rural settings – form the background to a meditative soundscape.

This revival features new imagery and music spanning Britten and Janáček to R.E.M., and the centrepiece is Pēteris Vasks’ pensive violin concerto, Distant Light. Nostalgic, melancholic, at times manic and beautifully evocative, Luminous is an arresting, multi-sensory journey.

Luminous season runs 10 – 23 August 2019. ACO subscription packages are available now.

Read more at the Sydney Morning Herald.

Image: Bill Henson Untitled #137, 2000/2001, KMC SH41 N28, Archival inkjet pigment print, 127 × 180 cm