Anna Whitaker

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Just under two weeks until Jenni Large’s brutal vision blooms and Faraway hits the stage 🥀 lace bodysuits encouraged, but not essential. Faraway World Premiere at The Odeon 25 Feb - 1 March Presented as part of @adelaidefestival 2026 — Music by the one and only @anna_whitaker

Anna Whitaker is one of Australia’s most inventive composers. Blending cutting-edge production with classical voice and technique, Anna’s sounds for Faraway run the gamut from brutal techno, lush orchestrations and even a bit of ASMR. The work is sexy, strange, and absolutely thumping. Here she tells us a bit about herself, her practice and how she’s bringing her incredible sonic mind to Jenni Large’s latest work. 🧚🧚🧚 Faraway Premiering as part of @adelaidefestival 25 Feb - 1 March at The Odeon Learn more via link in bio

Some beautiful shots from the one and only @gdocs.co at @_softwash_ a few weeks back 🩵🩵🩵 Thanks for having me, what a dream of a day. Was delicious singing with the river and leading a vocal workshop with y’all ✨ 𝘛𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘭//𝘛𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 Tidal//Tonal is a live sound performance composed in collaboration with the Tweed River. Using submerged hydrophones, the work listens to the river’s murmurings, collisions, and quiet disturbances - an improvised duet between artist and water. Following the performance, a vocal somatic workshop that invites participants to explore voice, breath, and body in resonance with the river’s shifting rhythms. Through sound and movement, the body becomes an instrument of listening and release. The work invites a soft dissolution of boundaries between human and more-than-human, performer and environment. The river is not backdrop but co-performer, shaping the score in real time. Together, the performance and workshop open space for a slow, fluid encounter—one that attunes to the porous and interwoven nature of being.

LIP Pieces, Nov 2025 @lucyguerininc x @umac.melbourne Sharing work doesn’t get any less vulnerable, feeling very proud of all the ways we persisted, stretched, gambled and trusted to create this feisty little work. Anna and I have made 10 works together in the last 5 years (!!!) I cannot explain the depth and importance of this friendship and collaboration. Thank you for helping me to be braver and truer. It is a complete privilege to be LOCKED IN with you 💍🩸 ~ Driven by the lure of vengeance, two performers whip, clack and screech in a tangle of sound, body and costume.  Open wide, slip the leash, strip down. The body is a weapon, and revenge is a complicated game.  ~ Choreographer, Director and Performer: Jenni Large Sound Designer and Collaborating Performer: @anna_whitaker Lighting Design: @rachelleerqxx Costume Design: @jarreddewey Development support for LIP: @ausdancetheatre ADT Raw Program and @dancenorthaustralia A.R.T. Program Curator: Lucy Guerin Production Manager: Nathan Evers Stage Manager: Jenny Le Lighting Operator: Max Woods Audio Operator: Gabriel Bethune Producer, LGI: @estelleconley Executive Producer, LGI: @allyharvey1966 Producer, UMAC: @rosiefisher 
Congrats HUSH; Siobhan McKenna, Zoe Brown-Holten, Rachel Coulson, Siobhan McKenna, Georgia Rudd, Helen Svoboda, Tilman Robinson and Geoffrey Watson and POST HOC; Jo Lloyd, Flynn Dakis, Jesper Harrison, Duane Morrison and Andrew Treloar x Photos by incredible @gdocs.co

LIP Pieces, Nov 2025 @lucyguerininc x @umac.melbourne Sharing work doesn’t get any less vulnerable, feeling very proud of all the ways we persisted, stretched, gambled and trusted to create this feisty little work. Anna and I have made 10 works together in the last 5 years (!!!) I cannot explain the depth and importance of this friendship and collaboration. Thank you for helping me to be braver and truer. It is a complete privilege to be LOCKED IN with you 💍🩸 ~ Driven by the lure of vengeance, two performers whip, clack and screech in a tangle of sound, body and costume.  Open wide, slip the leash, strip down. The body is a weapon, and revenge is a complicated game.  ~ Choreographer, Director and Performer: Jenni Large Sound Designer and Collaborating Performer: @anna_whitaker Lighting Design: @rachelleerqxx Costume Design: @jarreddewey Development support for LIP: @ausdancetheatre ADT Raw Program and @dancenorthaustralia A.R.T. Program Curator: Lucy Guerin Production Manager: Nathan Evers Stage Manager: Jenny Le Lighting Operator: Max Woods Audio Operator: Gabriel Bethune Producer, LGI: @estelleconley Executive Producer, LGI: @allyharvey1966 Producer, UMAC: @rosiefisher 
Congrats HUSH; Siobhan McKenna, Zoe Brown-Holten, Rachel Coulson, Siobhan McKenna, Georgia Rudd, Helen Svoboda, Tilman Robinson and Geoffrey Watson and POST HOC; Jo Lloyd, Flynn Dakis, Jesper Harrison, Duane Morrison and Andrew Treloar x Photos by incredible @gdocs.co

𝘈𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘦 | Anna Whitaker 𝘛𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘭//𝘛𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 Tidal//Tonal is a live sound performance composed in collaboration with the Tweed River. Using submerged hydrophones, the work listens to the river’s murmurings, collisions, and quiet disturbances - an improvised duet between artist and water. Following the performance, a vocal somatic workshop that invites participants to explore voice, breath, and body in resonance with the river’s shifting rhythms. Through sound and movement, the body becomes an instrument of listening and release. The work invites a soft dissolution of boundaries between human and more-than-human, performer and environment. The river is not backdrop but co-performer, shaping the score in real time. Together, the performance and workshop open space for a slow, fluid encounter—one that attunes to the porous and interwoven nature of being. Performance (10 minutes): 4:00PM, 5:00PM & 6:00PM AEDT/NSW Vocal workshop 5:10–5:30PM AEDT/NSW SW_003 – At The Waters Edge 2–5:30PM AEST / QLD 3–6:30PM AEDT / NSW Saturday 08 November 2025 Free – all welcome! RSVP at the link in our bio. Bundjalung country Tweed Regional Museum Learning Site 230 Kennedy Dr, Tweed Heads West softwash is an artist-led program of live and experimental art, workshops and a reading club. Hosted on Bundjalung country, where Terranora and Cobaki creeks meet, softwash is reimagining public parklands as a place for artists and community to gather, share and make meaning together.

Been a beautiful 6 weeks on the island and even more islands, love experiencing you lutruwita 💛 Great friends / great art / great fun Love love love xx

Unreal 😭😭😭 Won my first Green Room Award for Outstanding Sound Design in Dance in Naarm last night for ‘Fertile Ground’ Sad I couldn’t be there to accept the award, but so grateful for this recognition. ‘Fertile Ground’ was one of the first full length contemporary dance scores I ever made. I am still so proud of the work I did in this piece back in 2021, creating 90% of the sound from manipulated besser block recordings. 🧱 Big love and gratitude to the show’s creators @ashmusk and @smiike_ _ for all their incredible work, collaboration and support. Congrats on a stunning performance in Naarm last year where the weather really turned up @ashmusk and @jenlarge Thanks and big love to @dancehouse.melb for presenting the work and all their support Thanks Naarm for the love 🧡🧡🧡

🚨 Help Us Save Barrambin / Victoria Park from Irreparable Destruction 🚨 We are halfway to our goal for fundraising legal fees to stop its demolition! Please donate if you can 🥺 link at end of post and in bio! Victoria Park is our sanctuary – a place of solace, beauty, and rich cultural history. The area holds significant cultural importance for First Nations’ people and is home to sacred sites like the bunyip waterhole. This park is deeply woven into the fabric of our community🌿💔 At 64 hectares, Victoria Park is an incredible gift to us all. In the heart of Brisbane’s inner city, Barrambin is a rare treasure that so many cities can only dream of. We are so lucky to have it, and we must protect it for future generations. But now, David Crisafulli and the Queensland Government are on the brink of destroying this precious land for a massive stadium for the 2032 Olympics, officially announcing their decision to do so last Monday. In doing so, they are breaking their Olympic contract by allowing construction in protected cultural and natural areas. The idea of losing this massive inner city greenspace to concrete and steel is not just devastating – it’s unthinkable. We cannot allow this park to be sacrificed for a one-off event. This is not the legacy we want to leave behind. We need to preserve this land – a significant cultural and natural asset – for generations to come, not destroy it for short-term gain. We need your help to take legal action and stop the destruction. We are already halfway there. Every dollar you contribute brings us one step closer to protecting this vital part of Brisbane’s soul. Please, donate today and stand with us in the fight to save Victoria Park. 💚✨ Donate here: /f/save-victoria-park-from-an-olympic-stadium Together, we will protect what is irreplaceable. This park belongs to all of us. Let’s fight to keep it that way. #SaveVictoriaPark #NoStadiumInVictoriaPark #barrambin #ProtectOurHeritage #Brisbane #FightForOurGreenSpaces

West Coast (best coast?) ☀️ 🏜️ 🌊

Last night I won my third Matilda Award for Best Sound Design / Composition for my work on Ainslee Palmer’s magnificent show, Ready or Not. @ainsleebree Ainslee’s work is a powerful, potent and personal story that I had been privileged to be trusted with helping create. This feels like a collaborative win for Ainslee, the whole team and I. Without Ainslee’s incredible story, honest writing, and impeccable performance, I wouldn’t have felt the emotional connection I did to create this sound design. I want to thank @whiterabbittheatre and @lisatilley for all their hard work and support, and congratulate the whole team who worked on the show. I want to thank Ainslee again for trusting me, for sharing your story with the world, and the bravery, tenacity yet kindness and humour that you approach this work with. Big love to independent and regional companies and stories x Big love to all the noms and winners last night x