Variations on Leonard French
Abstract film commissioned for La Trobe University’s 50th anniversary, with 29-piece live orchestral score, composed by Tamil Rogeon and performed by the Australian Youth Orchestra. Visuals created entirely from macro footage of Leonard French’s “The Four Seasons”.
Commissioned and produced by Christian Wagstaff and Keith Courtney, Creative Production Services.
World premiere on 18 November 2017 at soundvision, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
“Variations on Leonard French” was originally commissioned as a live film and music performance, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of La Trobe University in 2017. The work is based on the sculptural piece by noted Australian artist Leonard French the “The Four Seasons”, acquired by the University in 1978 in recognition of the contribution of David Myers, inaugural Vice Chancellor. This contemporary reimagining of French’s vision, created for the explicit purpose of acknowledging the visual fabric of the University, should be preserved within the cultural collections of the institution for posterity.
– La Trobe University Art Collection
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