Journey Home

Andrea Keller & Hayley Miro Browne

The late Australian jazz artist Allan Browne once said "every great story is usually about the journey home.” Inspired by these words, pianist/composer Andrea Keller and filmmaker Hayley Miro Browne’s collaboration Journey Home is a visual and musical tribute that delves into the importance of family, establishing memories and reliving your historical past.

Hayley Miro Browne’s visuals draw from her own childhood memories with her late father, respected jazz musician Allan Browne. Using techniques for filming slide photography, she has created a shared narrative for this performance, using photos from the archives of Keller’s late father Erik Keller. Andrea Keller’s piano composition, created in response to Miro’s film, embodies all the complex emotions that come with a journey into one’s past.

Through the artists’ shared response to grief and loss, Journey Home grapples with displacement and distance in extraordinary circumstances.

Melbourne-based Andrea Keller’s Journey Home sounds like a love song to piano… Keller approaches her free improvs with zen-like openness, eschewing preconceptions. [Tom Greenland, New York City Jazz Record]

To my ear, Keller creates some of the most beautiful piano music I’ve heard… we should be grateful we're alive to bear witness to the beauty of the pianism of Andrea Keller, improvising artist, whose unique musical response to the world is more telling than any perceived ideal of beauty, in academia or otherwise. [Ian Muldoon, The Beauty of Andrea Keller]

Music composed and performed by Andrea Keller (piano)

Photographs by Erik Keller & Hayley Miro Browne

Film by Hayley Miro Browne

Presented at Platform Arts by the New and Experimental Arts Laboratory (NEAL).