Transient Entanglement.
Single channel video by Yandell Walton. Score by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett. Presented at Bunjil Place, 2022. Transient Entanglement explores the temporal nature of our existence through exploring the fragility of the natural environment. Created using LIDAR scanning technology in local sites in Nillumbik this work simulates a world that is void of human life but depicts waste remanence highlighting the over consumptive behaviours that contribute to the move into a new epoch known as the Anthropocene. |
A Particular Garden After
Installation by Angela Ferolla. Sound and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett. Commissioned by City of Fremantle for WIlD FREO. Presented at Artsource 2022. An indoor forest created of white material that comes alive with projections of layers of abundance, endangered and extinct animals and plants. The space is transformed as the projections fill the room with colour and fades back to white with each animated loop. The installation explores appearance & disappearance, skeletons of the landscape - fully inhabited then slow loss. Audiences are invited to talk through the forest - at times projected on - part of the story - part of the comings and goings. |
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Time Reveals the Unseen
(we will mourn the past well into the future) Interactive installation by Yandell Walton. Sound and Spoken Word by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett. Commissioned by MOD. Museum Adelaide for the exhibition Invisibility. 2022. The countdown is on. 2030 is fast approaching and the invisible processes of the Earth are making themselves seen. The latest science shows that while things are looking dire, we still have a chance to determine the course of the future. We each have a part to play, as do the corporations that will shape our collective futures. What can we change before it’s too late? The spoken text is drawn from interviews taken with young people associated with the MOD. Museum. |
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Playthings
Written and directed by Scott McArdle. Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett. Presented by Black Swan State Theatre Company, 2021. Lucy and Arnold are 13. Both outcasts. Both have seen hard times. Both irrevocably changed from one adventure into the bush looking for a dying kangaroo. Now they must navigate a wasteland of broken hearts, peed pants and carrot spew. It’s homework, hormones and homicide. A hit of The Blue Room Theatre 2019 season, this modern suburban coming-of-age story explores how we hurt each other, how we help those that are hurting, and how your music taste is never better than when you’re a teenager. A highlight of this show for me was the use of music. The music perfectly reflected the clear emotions of the characters and worked to transport the audience back to ‘simpler’ times" - Perth Happenings |
Composer and sound designer Rebecca Riggs-Bennett makes the most of some classic tunes, setting up the soundtrack to Lucy and Arnold’s future lives. Riggs-Bennett enhances scenes with sound effects and plays with an emotional palette to complement characters’ responses." - ArtsHub |
Whale Fall
Directed by Mel Cantwell. Written by Ian Sinclair. Produced by The Kabuki Drop. Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett. Commissioned by and presented by Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and co-presented with Perth Festival. 2021. Nadine returns to her beachside home, and the family she abandoned, to reconnect with her daughter. Now oceans apart, she must navigate her ex-husband’s anger at her departure and learn to accept and support her now son Caleb, with his desire to begin medically affirming his gender. Whale Fall charts the tidal force of change as bodies, species and environments face the brink of adaptation and transition. |
The dynamic tempo (sound design and composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett) is sometimes playful, intensifying to a climax and then releasing, only to be followed by a new wave of dynamic emotion, leaving you caught up in the journey." - The Conversation |
The Lucky Cat
Written, directed and designed by Yvan Karlsson. Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett. Presented by Monkey Brain Theatre at Subiaco Arts Centre as part of Fringe World 2021. The Lucky Cat is a meaningful tale, exploring contemporary family dynamics, speaking to both adults and children. It features puppetry and visual theatre to tell a story about luck, fate and optimism, The story features Alex, the unluckiest child in the whole world - she tries, and she tries but can't seem to catch a break, that is until she meets Tet, the luckiest cat in the world. They set out on an epic adventure to retrieve Alex's luck from the world of Fate and along the way learn what luck really is. |
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A Tending
Choreographed by Ellen Hope-Thomson. Performed by Mani Mae Gomes, Jo Omedi and Mitch Spadoro. Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett. Presented at the State Theatre Centre of WA as part of SITU-8 - a site-specific season of original works. Produced by STRUT Dance and Tura New Music. 2020. Three looping choreographic images meditating on theatre anxiety and the ways we can overcome foyer fear by deploying safety devices. |
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Guardians
Designed, built and programmed by Steven Buckles and Steve Berrick. Electronic scores produced and composed by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.Commissioned by City Of Perth and presented at Winter Fest Perth. 2019. https://steve.berrick.net/guardians Guardians is a robotic sculpture performance featuring two seemingly autonomous monoliths. Equipped with internal sound and lighting systems, the technological beings perform ethereal songs, harmonising together among crowds in slow choreographed movements and spatial interventions. Their mission is to establish an order of calm and care. Their motives are ambiguous: are they keeping us safe and happy or are they keeping us in line? |
Blueprint
Written, devised and performed by Jessica Russell, Phoebe Sullivan and Sean Crofton. Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett. Presented by The Blue Room Theatre. 2017. Now it’s time to leave our host, and our understanding of evolution along with it. Alex, Jayne, and Lewis are the first to reckon with this new reality. Exceptional only for being exceptionally ordinary, the three strangers eagerly join a program designed to produce astronauts in less than six months. The catch? The bodies they go in with may not be the same as the ones they come out with. Blueprint invites us to imagine a world where nothing is impossible. |
Rebecca Riggs-Bennett fills in the gaps to build and sustain an atmosphere of dread, melancholy and agitation...It complements the performances quite beautifully" - Rhys Tarling, The AU Review. |