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MIRIAMA YOUNG

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Venice Biennale Architettura 2025

Song of the Cricket

Sound installation to bring the Adriatic bush-cricket’s song to life, using a blend of natural, interactive, and synthesized elements.  A sound garden and interactive global cricket choir create a space for reflection and imagination on the site of a 16thcentury Venetian shipyard, the Gaggiandre at Arsenale.

Antonio Vivaldi’s Venice was once alive with the sound of nature, including crickets.  Our hope is that Song of the Cricket will not only bring the cricket’s song back to Venice, but set a new precedent for combining art and science to inspire urban conservation.

This project focuses on the endangered Zeuneriana Marmorata.

With Monica Lim and UEDLab University of Melbourne

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Birthday concert
Location
Hanson-Dyer Hall, Melbourne Conservatorium, 43 Sturt St, Southbank
Artist / Group
Conservatorium performers
Date / Time
September 10, 2025 7:30 PM
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Other Worlds
Location
Canberra NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA (GANDEL ATRIUM)
Artist / Group
Canberra Symphony Chamber Musicians
Date / Time
November 13, 2025 6:30 PM
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Song of the Cricket for Venice Biennale Architecttura 2025
Location
Venice, Italy
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Miriama Young, with Monica Lim
Date / Time
November 26, 2025 10:00 AM
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Miriama Young's compositions defy genre distinctions, and include chamber works, film scores, installations, and orchestral music. Through  themes of ecology and loss in the Anthropocene, Miriama's soundworld is driven by a quest for the mysterious and sublime. Her work has been performed by ensembles across the globe, from Sydney Symphony Orchestra to Scottish Opera.
Snapdragon
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Inner
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Grey Ghost
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Speechless: The Polar Realm
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This Earthly Round (Redux)
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Titlipur
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Song of the Cricket
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Solstice LAMP
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Snapdragon
Snapdragon
This Earthly Round (Redux)
This Earthly Round (Redux)
Grey Ghost
Grey Ghost
Song of the Cricket
Song of the Cricket
Like Two Balls of Liquid Silver Pedalling the Sky
Like Two Balls of Liquid Silver Pedalling the Sky
Two Monk Miniatures
Two Monk Miniatures
Iron Tongues
Iron Tongues
Speak Volumes
Speak Volumes
Kinds of Blue
Kinds of Blue
Reflections on the Harbour Light
Reflections on the Harbour Light
The Prime Cut
The Prime Cut
Titlipur
Titlipur
1,000 Kisses
1,000 Kisses
Inner Voices of the Blue
Inner Voices of the Blue
Zen Story
Zen Story
ChatterBox 
ChatterBox 
Solstice LAMP
Solstice LAMP
Speechless: The Polar Realm
Speechless: The Polar Realm
Suffrage Song
Suffrage Song
Time & Tide: Echoes of Sydney Harbour
Time & Tide: Echoes of Sydney Harbour
Long Moon, Liquid Sky
Long Moon, Liquid Sky
Borderlands Biophony
Borderlands Biophony
Wood Wide Web
Wood Wide Web
With You, Without You
With You, Without You
Place of Echo
Place of Echo
Inner
Inner
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Iron Tongues
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Kinds of Blue
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Reflections on the Harbour Light
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Snapdragon


A dancelike, propulsive, intense piece, Snapdragon was composed during a time of media frenzy around America’s initial attacks on Iraq (2003). Snow was falling in Princeton, physically trapping the composer in a tall apartment, while TV media projected sensational stories and graphic images of far away places in turmoil. Bombarded by sensational stories and graphic images, the composer experienced a creeping sense of numbness, as weather and war preyed on her incapacity to act in any tangible way. So, the music that emerged from this time of darkness has a certain physicality, borne of frustration and a sense of disenfranchisement: a way to ‘voice’ when she wasn't at liberty to express her views.

It is music rooted in the body, composed for the body — with dance-like rhythms, pulsing heartbeat, and sighing breaths, Snapdragon powerfully 'voices' emotions that cannot be articulated in words.

Snapdragon was written for the Yesaroun’ Duo, with their fearsome exuberance and technical virtuosity in mind.

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A Brief History

Miriama Young is an Aotearoa/ New Zealand - Australian composer and sound artist based at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. With a childhood as a cathedral chorister, and teenage years steeped in jazz and blues, her music reveals the influences of numinous ecclesiastical vocal music with the vibrant rhythms and harmonies of jazz. Her music is grounded in ecological concerns of the Anthropocene age. On a quest for the mysterious and sublime, Miriama’s output ranges from orchestral to chamber music, with works blending electroacousti celements and field recordings. Her compositions defy genre distinctions, spanning mediums such as film scores, installations, and orchestral works. Her work has been performed by ensembles across the globe, from the Sydney Symphony to Scottish Opera.
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