Can music be more than a mere artistic expression? Can it in fact… be?
Australian String Quartet’s Dale, Francesca, Chris and Michael talk about Robert Schumann, how he loved, and what went into his stunning String Quartet in A Major, Op.41 No.3.
Discover all this and more as Australian String Quartet musicians Dale, Francesca, Chris and Michael talk about Ludwig van Beethoven’s incredible contribution in the context of his String Quartet No.9 in C Major, Op.59 No.3, Razumovsky.
Featuring Australian String Quartet musicians:
Dale Barltrop | violin
Francesca Hiew | violin
Chris Cartlidge | viola
Michael Dahlenburg | cello
Sam Jozeps | host
Title music produced by Adam Page
Sampler track by Jason Sweeney
Edited and produced by Sam Jozeps
Narration recorded by Mitre Khammash
Interviews recorded on tour on nipaluna Coutry, Hobart, Tas
Produced on Kaurna Country at the University of Adelaide, SA
Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet is generously supported by the Thyne Reid Foundation.
SAMPLER PRODUCED BY JASON SWEENEY
For every episode of Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet, we commission and feature a new piece of music created with samples from that episode’s subject. This episode’s sampler was created by Jason Sweeney.
Jason Sweeney (he/him) is a composer, musician and filmmaker based on Kaurna Yarta / Adelaide. Since 2003 Jason has collaborated with leading arts companies (State Theatre Company SA, Restless Dance Theatre, Patch Theatre, Chunky Move, Force Majeure, Closer Productions, Performance Space, Arts House, pvi collective, Theatre Republic) and internationally (SPILL Festival, SOIT, Banff Centre). Over the last decade Jason created a trilogy of sound-based works focused on quietness, including Stereopublic which won a TED Prize (City2.0, 2013), Silent Type (2014) and the 2016 research odyssey, Quiet Ecology. In 2022-2023 he made new scores for ANTIGONE (State Theatre Company SA) and Astrid Pill’s ‘I Hide In Bathrooms’. In 2024 he released the song cycle called ‘Ageism’. In 2024 he composed for Rebecca Meston’s ‘Hits’, Theatre Republic’s ‘The Almighty Sometimes’, Cirkidz ‘Stacks On’ and was the co-curator of Adhocracy at Vitalstatistix. He releases music internationally under the names Panoptique Electrical and Sweeney.
“When asked to make an ambient electronic music response that integrates ASQ’s recording of Schumann’s String Quartet in A major Op.41 No.3 I began by listening for the swells and waves of notes and chords that would swim beautifully alongside this analogue synth loop.
I took elements of the ASQ recording and transposed, pitch shifted, time-stretched and re-sampled various moments out of the full 20 minutes of Schumann and created this 2 minute loop-able electronic track.”
