Marlené Claudine Radice is an Australian composer who specialises in notated electroacoustic composition by exploring how art and sound compliment one another. Taking recorded sounds away from their original sources, they process and manipulate these into new musical structures. Raw industrial noises, looped voices and hypnotic soundscapes are layered to create a nuanced and original sound.
They have been commissioned as sound designer and composer for Rebus Theatre (Re-emergence, 2024, Utopiate, 2022, Itazura Co. (Carriageworks, 2022), The Beauty Thief, 2021), Canberra Youth Theatre (Little Girls Alone in the Woods, 2021), Belconnen Arts Centre (MESS, 2020), the National Museum of Australia (Songlines of the Western Desert, 2017) and Questacon (StellrScope, 2013). Their work has been performed by the duo Unassisted Fold as a part of HighSCORE Festival 2017 (Italy) and have presented their research on Iannis Xenakis at the 2017 Xenakis Symposium in Leeds.
They are currently completing a site specific sound installation project commissioned by Chamber Made (VIC) and Ainslie Arts Centre (ACT) which will premier at the Melbourne Science Gallery in 2025.
Marlene is a trained physical theatre performer and a passionate advocate for queer youth arts education and inclusive theatre practices. Marlene is a lead facilitator for Rebus Theatre’s iDrama classes for adults with intellectual disabilities and have been a facilitator for their annual Acting Out: On Screen Queer youth holiday course since 2023. Outside of their work as a composer and teacher Marlēné has worked as a field recorder primarily specialising in archiving Indigenous Australian songlines.
Marlene has worked as both director, composer, and producer for the site specific works Retrograde (Belconnen Arts Centre, 2021), ROAR! (Wanderlust Gentleman’s Club, 2022), and CRAVE (Wanderlust Gentleman’s Club, 2023). They are currently co-producer and music director for The Seeing Place; a contemporary theatre company they co-founded in 2023 alongside Director, Sammy Moynihan.
Marlené completed a double degree in Music (Composition) and Arts (Italian) at the Australian National University. In 2016 they completed their Honours in Composition at Monash University with Prof Mary Finsterer. They are currently on the committee for the Tilde New Music and Art Festival (VIC).
