You’re listening to Episode 1 of the Abbotsford Mysteries Song Cycle. In this episode you’ll hear the first song in the cycle: Miasmata. This song introduces you to the Abbotsford Convent site and its Indigenous history; how the lives of the thousands of women and girls who lived at the convent were shaped and enclosed by the river that winds its way through landscape.

Featured on this recording are producer Sascha Kelly, poet-librettist Patricia Sykes, and Andy Aronowicz the composer for the Abbotsford Mysteries Song Cycle Project. Joined by Liane Keegan, mezzo soprano, with the musicians of Plexus ensemble: violinist Monica Curro, clarinettist Phil Arkinstall, and pianist Stefan Cassomenos.

The music was recorded by Greg Matheson in the Lady Marigold Southey Performance Studio at 3MBS: Fine Music Melbourne. Mixing and mastering by Chris Lawson.

The Abbotsford Mysteries Song-Cycle project and podcast are presented in partnership with the Abbotsford Convent Foundation, with support from Creative Victoria, The Australian Cultural Foundation, Kawaii Pianos and Spinifex Press. The music was recorded at 3MBS: Fine Music Melbourne, in the Lady Marigold Southey Performance Studio.

The Abbotsford Convent sits on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, by the waters of the Birrarung. We pay our respects to their Elders, and other Aboriginal Elders listening - past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Photo credit: Tangerine Creative.

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