Vanessa Tomlinson
Vanessa Tomlinson plays percussion as a composer’s instrument and a social one, moving between notated contemporary scores and open collaborative forms. Her sound ranges from precise ensemble colour to vibraphone, voice and the activation of place.
With Erik Griswold she co-leads Clocked Out, a long duo and project partnership that has stretched from intimate albums to community-scale events such as 84 Pianos. She has recorded Xenakis’s complete percussion works and, in collaborative studio pieces built from improvised duets, adds percussion, vibraphone and voice to long unfolding textures. Her solo practice treats space itself as material, using soundings to wake a room or landscape rather than simply fill it.
Vanessa Tomlinson appears on
Two Step
Recorded in Berlin, Brisbane and Tel Aviv, this is a truly international project. Cathy Milliken, an Australian oboist and composer based in Berlin, works with some of the finest contemporary performers available.