AustLit

'Kirsten Moana Thompson, based at New York University, focuses on the soundtrack and how the narrative movement between the three central melodies emblematises the conflicts and struggles between different parts of Ada's interiority. Thompson investigates how the thematic important of these melodies functions as aural emblems evoking the physical and psychological confinements in which Ada is placed. Ada, who had not voice, produced a strong representation of her self trhough her piano. The audience engages with both the sight of the musician and the sound of the music through the melodies used on the film soundtrack and plated by Ada. Thompson builds on the idea that the music, sound and silence are riddled with allegorical resonances.' (p.xii)