Joseph Burgess and Madeleine Cocolas: Soothing Sounds for Baby
Sound performance
15 September 2024
1–2pm
In 1962, pioneer American electronic-music composer Raymond Scott released Soothing Sounds for Baby, three albums of ambient electronic music designed to lull babies to sleep. Each targeted a different age group—one to six, six to twelve, and twelve to eighteen months—the music getting more complex with each volume. Within our exhibition, Duty of Care: Part One, Joseph Burgess (aka Unregistered Master Builder) and Madeleine Cocolas will present compositions inspired by the idea of therapeutic music. Burgess’s quadrophonic composition will draw on Scott’s three-part generative structure and incorporate modular synths, live strings, and plunderphonics. Cocolass’s collage soundscape will incorporate field recordings, whale song, breathing, vintage nursery rhymes, binaural beats, Sigmund Freud’s voice, and more.
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Joseph Burgess is an artist, musician, sound designer from Portland, Oregon, now based in Meanjin/Brisbane. His albums—No Rego No Problem, Harshmallow, and Unregistered Master Builder—are on Spotify. He works at the University of Queensland and has worked on projects for Bleach, People Artist Place, Modifyre, Vivid, Curiocity, and Woodford Folk Festival.
Madeleine Cocolas is a Meanjin/Brisbane–based composer who creates post classical and ambient instrumental music. Released by Room40, her album Spectral garnered positive notices from Pitchfork, The Wire, and Electronic Sound, and featured on Bandcamp’s Album of the Day.
Unregistered Master Builder. Photo: Fin Wegener
