Hadrian is a collaboration between composer Eve Klein, filmmaker Rani Brown and Ensemble Offspring. Hadrian is a personal work, exploring the composer's experience of rebuilding her family home due to flooding at a time when other Australians were experiencing successive climate-related disasters. Hadrian is inspired by Dwelling in the Age of Climate Change, a book where Dr Elaine Kelly puts a notion of "home" at the centre of how we, as humans, orient ourselves in the world and how we should respond to the mass displacement of people as a likely outcome of climate change. To unpack the impact of climate change on our everyday lives and homes, Hadrian interweaves Eve's story with the experiences of other Australians by incorporating objects donated from other people's homes into the work's musical palette. A scrolling graphic score depicts weather events leading to the composer's loss alongside data evidencing Australia's overall trajectory of climate change.

Hadrian was commissioned by Ensemble Offspring for the Noisy Women Commission 2020. This project has also been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Eve Klein is an Australian composer, vocalist, and music technologist known for creating ground- breaking immersive music experiences for mass audiences. She draws together classical music, electronica, and interactive performance to push genre boundaries and invite audiences to discuss real-world social issues.

Find her work at: eveklein.com

Australian new music trailblazers, Ensemble Offspring comprise Australia’s most innovative and virtuosic instrumentalists and are led by renowned percussionist Claire Edwardes OAM. Recognised with a 2021 Classical: Next Innovation Award for collaboration, Ensemble Offspring champion marginalised voices including emerging, female, identifying and First Nations Australian composers. A devotion to daring new music making has seen the group premiere over 300 new works over its 27 year history.