Meaning ‘the midmost point’ (from Old English), Midmeste threads a unique and multi-layered web of relationships between cello, organ and acoustic space–a tracing of multiple strands, outlines and connections in which original and found musical materials, notions of performative embodiment and psychoacoustic remnants recur. The project incorporates late-Medieval musical texts in an expanded microtonal framework, which are given further historical context and significance through the unique opportunity to work with the organ of the Valère basilica in Sion where the piece was developed in 2023 - the world’s oldest playable organ.

Ned Collette will be performing – Our Other History, released in September this year, and features contributions from Judith Hamann, Leah Senior, Jim White and Mick Turner of Dirty Three, Steve Heather, and The Necks’ Chris Abrahams, among others.