In addition to creating music for ensembles and bands, Peter Knight creates striking scores for theatre, performance, and sound installations and has been involved in making work that has won multiple Green Room awards and nominations. He has collaborated for many years with acclaimed director/performer Tamara Saulwick, and has also been commissioned by Chamber Made, Australian Art Orchestra, Arts House, Aarhus Festival (Denmark) ABC Radio (for radiophonic works), and Tina Havers Company (Germany). He has also collaborated extensively with visual artist Cameron Robbins, and recently created a sound installation work for Now Or Never festival in Melbourne.
Concept & direction Tamara Saulwick.
Composition & sound design Peter Knight
Performer & collaborators Tina Stefanou, Jessica Aszodi & Alice Hui-Sheng Chang
Creative Coder & programmer Steve Berrick
“My Self at That Moment opens up crucial areas for reflection, especially at a time when the digital self has become a proxy for the real.” The Conversation
Premiere season: The Substation 2022
Repurposing the omnipresent portable device, Alter is an audio-visual installation for 16 iPads and 16 people in a delicate meditation on invisible systems and interconnectedness. Bodies, light and space are threaded together in this intimate sensory encounter. Created by Tamara Saulwick in collaboration with Peter Knight, Martyn Coutts and Steve Berrick, Alter creates a pocket in time for the act of collective listening and contemplation.
Concept/creation/visuals:Tamara Saulwick
Composition: Peter Knight
Dramaturgy: Martyn Coutts
System design: Steve Berrick
Film footage: Scott Morrison & Tamara Saulwick
PRESENTATION HISTORY
Festival of Live Art, Arts House, Melbourne 2016 — North Melbourne Town Hall, Arts House, Melbourne 2017 — Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing China, 2018 — Xi'an International Studies University,Xi'an, China 2018 — FlashMob Space, West Village, Chengdu China 2018 — Grand Theater, Nanfang College of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China 2018 — Dance Center, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China 2018
The Current - Double Venturi
Co-curated by Peter Knight and Cameron Robbins
The Current brought together installation artists, composers and musicians to make unexpected music and art in all areas within the Melbourne Town Hall. Featuring Peter Knight, Cameron Robbins, Erik Griswold, Vanessa Tomlinson, Robbie Rowlands, David Murphy, Catherine Clover
Notice, composed and created by Peter Knight using recordings of a 1923 Melbourne City Council meeting and Australian birdsong. Images by Cameron Robbins and Catherine Clover. Presented by Double Venturi and the City of Melbourne in 2006.
Concept/text/performance Tamara Saulwick
Sound composition/performance Peter Knight
Set/lighting design: bluebottle - Ben Cobham
Songwriting/performance Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo)
Nominated for:
Best 'Contemporary & Experimental Performance' Green Room Award.
'Best New Australian Work' 2015 Helpmann Award
Pin Drop
Pin Drop is an audio-sensory work exploring the phenomenon of fear in our daily lives: how we respond to a noise in the dead of night, a shadowy movement glimpsed down a darkened alley, or the stranger breathing down the phone. Drawing on a range of interviews with people from six to 92 years of age, this grippingly intimate work is told through 12 voices – one live, 11 pre-recorded.
Creator/performer: Tamara Saulwick
Composition/sound design: Peter Knight
Set & lighting design: bluebottle - Ben Cobham and Frog Peck
Movement: Michelle Heaven
Green Room Award winner: 'Outstanding Production' - Hybrid Theatre
Awards
Green Room Award Nominations: 'Sound Design and Composition', 'Mise-en-scene', ‘Production Design'.
Green Room Award winner: 'Outstanding Production'