Gorgeous Gamba Girl, Alice Chance, wished me luck in writing this article saying “there’s nothing interesting about me” – she is doing an Arts degree combining philosophy, and music studies in composition. However, she has always taken an interest in filmmaking. According to Alice, you have to be a very patient person to be seriously into film making, and fiendish HSC caused her to hate it, as it became “such torment.” She converted her prior love for film into a long term relationship with music, specifically composition. This all began in her year 11 choir days.
Alice now considers herself a “Passionate Chorister” despite her quite horrific adventure with a chamber choir in Spain. She was overcome by a sickness caught off her right-hand-woman, Hannah Buckly [pictured right], who was hospitalized. Alice now has a “permanent stomach problem,” but still thoroughly enjoyed her travels and music remains a highly valued aspect of her life. This could be because of the phrase she lives by – “It’s all good,” which she “says all the time, even when it’s not true.”
Her compositional and song writing endeavours have always been an “outside pleasure”, and she is “interested in combining music and words.” The first song she ever wrote was a love dedication to the beautiful Andrew Hanson, from The Chaser’s War on Everything. “Oh Andrew” is a tender tune in D minor, beginning: “I see you every Wednesday night, but you can’t see me – You’re just a picture on a screen.”
Another flashback of Alice’s eleven-year-old self comes with the poem dedicated to aforementioned Hannah Buckley. Fondly, she remembers the first line and recites: “Ever since the day I met her, everything I could do, she could do better.” Generally, Alice enjoys writing poems and has a fascination for puns, which hold an important part in her life, poetry and Aural Perception homework.
Alice is inspired greatly by Nigel Westlake, South Park, Chris Lilley, and The Chaser’s War on Everything. One top of this are her muses in life: her two dogs Millie and Pompom who “are like little ugg boots”, her “famjam” and friends, specifically Hannah Buckley. This inspiration sadly doesn’t translate into Alice’s physical health. She used to do Zumba because “it’s just great” and now says “I consider walking between campuses a sport”, sling with taking the stairs instead of escalators and various other strenuous activities.
So, what’s next for Alice Chance? She’s a part of Aurora Australis, a women’s barbershop choir that recently came third in a competition in Canberra, and the USyd Madrigal Society. The Australian Youth Choir is singing one of her compositions in November, and on Christmas she’ll be singing in Carols on Norton. There is also the wonderful first year’s composition performance night on Wednesday the 30th of May at 6pm, entitled “Dal Niente”.