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Speak Percussion
Celebrates 10 Years
25 September 2010, 7pm, Syd Con
In celebration of Speak Percussion’s 10th birthday this program reflects their oeuvre and dedication to new and challenging Australian art music. All the works are focussed around the keyboard percussion family and highlights Speak's innovative ways of presentig contemporary music. Their art exists beyond percussion ensemble and new music practice in an evolving and hybrid form. They have commissioned many new works for percussion and have collaborated with artists from diverse disciplines. They will perform works by Brendan Colbert, Conlon Nancarrow, Anthony Pateras, Fritz Hauser, Andrian Pertout, and a new work from Warren Burt for 39 tuning forks.
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An Infinity Room (A.I.R)
8pm Friday 3 September 2010, Sydney Conservatorium
An Infinity Room is an new ensemble comprising various synthesizers, keyboards and electronic organs. Led by composer Julian Day, the group strives towards a Zen-like sense of spaciousness, resonance and poise. A.I.R uses graphic scores, simple performance techniques and semi-improvised structures to create a haunting aura of drones and rich harmonic fields. ...Find our more.
Clocked Out
After the Kingfisher’s Wing: a new work by Erik Griswold
The mystical imagery of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets is the inspiration for composer Erik Griswold’s major new work After the kingfisher’s wing, a labyrinth of intricate textures, mind bending polyrhythms, still points interrupted by sudden bursts of energy.
After the kingfisher’s wing
Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still
At the still point of the turning world. – T.S. Eliot (from ‘Burnt Norton’)
Clock Out will perform with Janet McKay flute, Anthony Burr clarinet, Graeme Jennings violin, Liam Viney piano, and Vanessa Tomlinson percussion on 6 October at the Queensland Conservatorium. Click here to find out more information...
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