Sister : a conversation in four parts

Sister : A conversation in four parts, 2001, 18’10”

First Broadcast : The Listening Room : ABC CLassic FM : Monday 9 July 2001

Broadcast promotional text:

Sister
A conversation in four parts.
by Sophea Lerner

A text-music composition for radio by Sophea Lerner, who was the Australia Council
New Media Artist in residence with The Listening Room in 1998.
A conversation over time between two sisters who grew up in different worlds
becomes a musical composition, and features two voices and two instruments,
(also four parts). What is not said is explored musically through the instrumental
voices of Natasha Rumiz on viola and violin and Leanne Sullivan on trumpet.
What emerges is not a psychological archaeology of separation but
rather a celebration of new definitions of family.

Trumpet: Leanne Sullivan
Viola and violin: Natasha Rumiz
Sound engineers: Steven Tilley and Colin Preston
Composer and Producer: Sophea Lerner