🔎 See the piano like never before!
Step inside the studio of Rae Howell, Barossa’s artist-in-residence, and watch as piano keys, hammers and strings become part of a live soundscape.
Discover how Rae transforms a familiar instrument into an immersive sonic artwork in this open-studio demonstration.
Free Event – All Welcome.
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As her residency progresses, Rae Howell opens the studio doors to share the inner workings of her creative process. Visitors will see the piano literally taken apart – its keys, hammers and action mechanisms suspended and rewired – as Rae experiments with sound textures for her forthcoming installation, The Piano: Hook, Line & Tinker.
This open-studio session is designed especially for local artists, makers and curious community members interested in how visual art, sound and engineering intersect. Rae demonstrates how she captures and manipulates the sounds produced by piano components, transforming them into immersive soundscapes that complement the visual structure of her installation.
Participants will hear live demonstrations and have the chance to ask questions about the artistic and technical challenges of turning a traditional instrument into a dynamic, multi-sensory artwork.
More than a glimpse behind the scenes, this is an invitation to understand how sound can be sculpted as an artistic material – and how a familiar instrument can be experienced anew.
ABOUT THE ARTIST – RAE HOWELL
Rae Howell is an award-winning Australian composer, multi-instrumentalist and piano technician whose work fuses music, sound and the environment. Founder of the Sunwrae Ensemble, Rae creates innovative projects such as The Piano: Hook, Line & Tinker, an ‘exploded-view’ suspended piano installation revealing the instrument’s hidden mechanisms and stories. Her residency in the Barossa explores connections between people, place and the pianos that have shaped local musical life.
