Last year saw award-winning electronic powerhouse Electric Fields (Zaachariaha Fielding, lead vocals, and Michael Ross, producer) make their orchestral debut in a NAIDOC week collaboration with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
On Saturday, July 8, Electric Fields will once again bring their unique brand of electronica storytelling to Hamer Hall for NAIDOC week 2023.
Electric Fields combines Fielding’s soaring vocals, often including the traditional languages of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara people, with electronic, pop and soul elements. The result is an entrancing sonic landscape that draws on the root systems of Fielding’s community.
Under the baton of conductor Vanessa Scammell, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will perform moving song cycles of Electric Fields’ work arranged for the orchestra by Alex Turley, their 2022 Cybec Young Composer in Residence.
This encore performance comes fresh off the back of Electric Fields’ appearance at Sydney World Pride, where they performed the official theme song ‘We the People’ in front of a 20,000-strong crowd. If the energy of that performance is anything to go by, this collaboration with the MSO is sure to be an emotional night.
The MSO’s NAIDOC week 2023 program also includes the One Song: The Music of Archie Roach concert, as well as a special screening of the critically acclaimed documentary Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow.
