COMPOSITIONS
I make worlds. Wondrous worlds where all the facets of me can live, survive, breathe and thrive.
PhD Viva in a Dolls House 2024 // Live
ORIGINAL COMPOSITION Geoffa Fells
VOICE Geoffa Fells
LIVE CAM Kyle Matson
Instead of a tradtitional academic presentation, I scored my PhD viva as a series of songs on wallpaper inside the miniature world of an illuminated dolls house. My research outcomes are sung in lyric format as well as being revealed as the pieces of dolls house furniture are played across a chess board. The head of research Kevin Voets emailed the next morning to say that is was "one of the stongest PhD presentations I ever witnessed"
I then performed the dolls house piece again at the Concertbouw in Bruges.
OH BALLS 2023 // MATRIX CENTRE FOR NEW MUSIC // Composer in Residence //
Written for electronics, scores on clothing, a children’s choir, swimming pool, 600 ball pool balls and a weather forecaster using a clarinet as a meteorological tool, this piece explores the changing and shifting emotions through the metaphor of the weather and cloud formation.
MUSIC Geoffa Fells
CHOIR Fabota
CLARINET Gustavo Clayton Marucci
CLOTHING SCORES Geoffa Fells
ANIMATION Geoffa
VIDEO EDITING Geoffa
TRUMPET Geoffa
TRANSLATOR/SUPPORT ARTIST Mirjam
Many thanks to everyone at Fabota and MATRIX
APPLYING THROUGH ART MAKING // 2024
ORIGINAL COMPOSITION Geoffa Fells
VOICE Geoffa Fells
TUBA Bobby Payne
SAXOPHONES Sophie Burrows
I use art making to process events, regulate and give my selves access to a full life. I spent my PhD diversifying facets from the neuroscience of safety so that my arts practice can meet my sensory, social, movement and pain management needs. If I have to take time out from my valuable making time to apply to an 'opportunity' we can end up feeling dysregulated and struggling to focus, because, well, we'd rather be compositng or painting. Also, because we have ADHD, applications in a written format are not accessible. So, we have been experimenting with applying to 'opportunities' though art making.