Josephine Macken is a composer and improviser based in Sydney, Australia. She completed her Masters of Music (Composition) under the supervision of Prof. Liza Lim as a participant in the SCM Composing Women Program. Her research and creative practice centers interferences; aesthetic, material or otherwise, prioritising processual disturbances which affect and reveal qualitive changes in a system of relations.
Score Samples
Still -or- Invitation at Dusk (2019-20)
for soloist; alto flute, alto voice & electronics
Burial (2019)
for mixed quartet; c trumpet, clarinets, percussion & double bass
Recent Work
for soloist; alto flute, alto voice & electronics
premiered by Claire Chase & Levy Lorenzo
29 September 2019
See: timestamp #3, The Tent (2020)
a chamber opera for three voices, ensemble and electronics
premiered by Sydney Chamber Opera
24 April 2020
Ongoing & Upcoming Projects
New Work (2022)
for Voix Nouvelles
unknown instrumentation
premiere in September 2022
Paris, France
New Work (2022)
for Speak Percussion
new work for percussion trio
premiere in April 2022
Melbourne, Australia
Murmur Song (2021-22)
for ‘cellist James Morley
ongoing, premiere in mid-2022
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