About Us
Enspiralled Ensemble was formed in nipaluna (Hobart) by a collective of musicians who care deeply about using music as a language of deep Earth listening and transformation. “enspiralled” is principally a process of creative Earth-based deep listening and expression. We play in landscape, and ask permission for the Earth/land to express through our instruments.
Through live performances and audio-visual recordings we share our music in a sacred space, inviting listeners to deepen their connection with themselves, and with Earth. We offer interactive land-based workshops to facilitate deeper connection. In 2020 Enspiralled Ensemble recorded a series of audio-visual pieces in Glenorchy, nipaluna (Hobart) for the Moonah Arts Centre, and most recently played at the Styx Threatened Forest Open Days.
Enspiralled Ensemble is a process and a collective. Members of the ensemble may come and go, but the essence of listening and connecting deeply with Earth is constant.
enspiralling
We sit. We soften into our breathing and allow our bodies to sink into the soil. We listen.
We hear the wind and the birds, the drone of traffic and we go deeper. Something opens up in us. A quietness. And we need to breathe this out. With the trees and with the place.
We ask permission to be here. We call on the ancestors and the spirits of the place. Gently. We call on light, love and life to support us all. We breathe that in.
The conversation begins. We gently pick up our instruments, feeling into the voice of the place. We are the breeze that comes in waves. We are the call of frogs and crickets. We are the soft song of the trees sharing their lives.
We find in many places this first movement is a soundscape – the breath in. We are gently acknowledging and mirroring what is around. We know we are beginning to be in dialogue when birds fly through the trees near us or call out, when a swoop of wind rustles the trees and they share their voice.
The second movement is often more playful. There is a feeling that the place is delighting in us being there and wants to play with rhythm and sound. We are often moved to make percussion on our bodies, on objects around, to stamp our feet and to use our voice. This seems to be the breath out – the creative urge that is a collaboration that is bigger than ourselves. Now the kookaburras come and laugh with us.
Each movement opens a new doorway into experiencing the place and being in dialogue with it. At the end we feel deeply nourished in our souls and in deeper relationship to the place. It feels we have honoured the place and it feels enlivened through this co-participation in musical creation.
Some places have histories and energies which are disturbed or stuck. They might call us for healing. The sound that comes from these places can at first seem sad or distorted - a lament. There is a need to honour the grief and pain and find ways to express it. There is a moment when something shifts and something new is being birthed. It is a privilege to be part of that and to feel into the gifts the place offers.
Musicians
Enspiralled Ensemble is currently: Tim Devereux, Moran Wiesel, and Sue Stack.
Tim Devereux is a Tasmanian-born didgeridoo player. He is known in some of Hobart’s yoga studios and venues with Kirtan (sacred music), multi-faith events, personal development workshops, meditation journeys, conscious dance, and sound baths. Spending time with traditional elders in the Northern Territory has given Tim an appreciation of the sacredness of the yidaki, or didgeridoo. Tim loves sharing his deep relationship with the land and yidaki that connects us with the Earth, ourselves, and something mystical that is bigger than ourselves.
Moran Wiesel is a Hobart based harpist, flautist, musical educator, environmental facilitator and intersectional activist. They work with communities facilitating deep engagement with place, and to create Earth-centred governance. They are passionate about using creative practices, and particularly music, to (re-) envision how we connect. Drawing on their background in Geography, Moran is also a creative and academic writer.
Dr Sue Stack is Hobart based educator, musician and artist interested in holistic and transformative learning. She has been exploring development of the Eco-self – a wider sensing into place and the earth. She is interested in deep listening and healing of land through music, art, improvisation, story telling, ritual and energy work. She has recently been involved with the Styx Lament project of immersion into a torn landscape. https://suestack.wordpress.com/about/
