Performance lecture. 2022.

Can we wrap our heads around the inevitability of planetary and civilisational collapse? What can the history of experimental electronic music and the fate of an extinct alien species teach us about living with chaos and destruction?

Krell and the Destruction of Worlds brings together performative musicology and electronic music synthesis to address a pressing feeling that structures our age: the existential terror many of us feel when we contemplate how human-made climate change and other catastrophes threaten life and civilisation as we know it.

The work was developed during an artistic residency at Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) and was co-presented by Liquid Architecture and MESS.

An interview with Catherine about Krell and the Destruction of Worlds was featured on Liquid Architecture’s podcast.

Supported by the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.