{"id":412,"date":"2022-05-05T04:57:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T04:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=412"},"modified":"2024-07-24T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T10:29:16","slug":"kepa-will-b-1982-sleepless-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=412","title":{"rendered":"Kepa, Will (b. 1982) &#8211; Sleepless dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;--awb-align-self:center;--awb-width:100%;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe class=\"fusion-hidden\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" src=\"\" title=\"YouTube video player 1\" data-privacy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mlmd8jF7tss?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><div class=\"fusion-privacy-placeholder\" style=\"width:600px; height:360px;\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\"><div class=\"fusion-privacy-placeholder-content\"><div class=\"fusion-privacy-label\">For privacy reasons YouTube needs your permission to be loaded.<\/div><a href=\"\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" class=\"fusion-button button-default fusion-button-default-size button fusion-privacy-consent\">I Accept<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h3 data-fontsize=\"32\" style=\"--fontSize: 32; line-height: 1.3;\" data-lineheight=\"41.6px\" class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\">&#8220;To be human&#8221; program note<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kepamusicproductions.com\">Will Kepa<\/a> was born and raised in Cairns, and is of Torres Strait Island First Nations heritage. Music and dance was a part of his family culture from a young age, and he completed a Diploma of Music at the Cairns TAFE college. Kepa is very active as a multi-instrumentalist in contemporary popular music ensembles &#8211; including Festival appearances around Australia and several international tours &#8211; and also as an audio engineer and music producer, including an extensive audio and film audit of Northern Australian First Nations and Torres Strait Islander music and dance. He is currently undertaking Bachelor of Music (Composition for Film and Video Games) on Scholarship at the Australian National University. In 2019, Will joined Ngarra-Burria, an artist development program for First Peoples musicians to develop their composition skills and connect with the art music sector. The program was initiated by Dharug composer Chris Sainsbury. In early 2021, Kepa was appointed the position of Recording Officer at the newly established \u2018Yil Lull\u2019 First Nations Recording Studio at the ANU School of Music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Sleepless dreaming<\/i> was commissioned in 2021 by Maree Kilpatrick as part of her Doctor of Musical Arts candidature research into Australian piano trio repertoire, which prior to this time included little or no representation of First Nations Australian composers. Will Kepa stated about the story behind the work:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&#8216;Sleepless Dreaming&#8217;, coming from the angle of memories I have of growing up when my Mother\/Aunty\/Grandmothers would sing me to sleep with &#8220;scary lullaby&#8217;s&#8221; about the &#8216;boogie man&#8217; or other mythological creatures from ancient Torres Strait stories, who may be coming to get me in the night if I don&#8217;t go to sleep soon! We would cover all the mirrors inside the house so that if you woke up in the middle of the night, you wouldn&#8217;t see what was in the room around you through the mirror. I&#8217;m laughing at it now, but it doesn&#8217;t seem like something I would do to my kids, although it was very effective! I remember as a child all I wanted to do was close my eyes and stay asleep until morning came!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sleepless Dreaming draws stylistically from the musical and dance of the Torres Strait Islands, and we are excited to be presenting the world premiere of this work today.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-1\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--body_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--body_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--body_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--body_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--body_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--body_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"4454\" height=\"3171\" title=\"Will Kepa\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%274454%27%20height%3D%273171%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%204454%203171%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%274454%27%20height%3D%273171%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Will_5435.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-566\"\/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">Will Kepa<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kepa, Will (b. 1982) - Sleepless dreaming - Australian Piano Trios<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=412\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kepa, Will (b. 1982) - Sleepless dreaming - Australian Piano Trios\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=412\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Australian Piano Trios\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-24T10:29:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=412\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=412\",\"name\":\"Kepa, Will (b. 1982) - Sleepless dreaming - Australian Piano Trios\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-05T04:57:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-24T10:29:16+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=412#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=412\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=412#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Featured works\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=15\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Kepa, Will (b. 1982) &#8211; 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