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‘Small Worlds’ Release

28Jun

A concert to celebrate the release of Quiver’s new release ‘Small Worlds’ on Perth based exploratory music label Tone List.
With Support from Evelyn Ida Morris (Pikelet) – piano/voice.

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Anicca on ABC Classic FM

11Jun

ABC Classic FM have realesed the full (50 minute) audio recording of Anicca, along with the post-show interview through their New Waves podcast. Listen here. 

FIELD SEVER POINTS

25May

For Field Sever Points, percussive objects are suspended en masse to create elaborate kinetic systems, with the vertical movement of each suspended point programmed down to the millimeter using an electronically engineered system. Musically informed by Iannis Xenakis’ stochastic methods in which hail patterns can provide mathematical frameworks for rhythm and texture. A hovering plane of percussive objects suspended above granite and water, moving of their own accord in shifting formations like strange acts of nature. Exploring the mysterious undercurrents that connect the singular and the plural, the individual and the chorus. The act of sound creation is ritualised, physicalised and continually recast.

Field Sever Points is a continuation of Schack-Arnott’s exploration of hyper-expressive percussive environments.

Premiering in Australia in 2018.

Direction, Composition, Performance – Matthias Schack-Arnott
Electrical engineering – Mark Stuhrmann & Richard Allen
Production Manager – Michael Carr
Production consultant – Richard Dinnen
Producer – Michaela Coventry

New Videos Online

28Apr

New videos of recent projects now online in the video section of the website.

Melbourne Festival x3

05Oct

I am involved in three projects in this year’s Melbourne Festival.

GLOAMER

My new six-channel sound installation for MPavilion, ‘Gloamer’, is featured nightly at sunset as part of the festival. The work is for resonant metallic percussion instruments, sine tones and gestural microphones, and was composed in response to the unique design elements of Amanda Lavete’s MPavilion, synced to an immersive lighting design by bluebottle. If you miss it as part of the festival, the work’s season will be continuing until Febuary 2016. More info here.

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MPavilion – New Work

13Aug

Excited to be creating a new 30minute work for MPavilion in collaboration with British architect Amanda Levete and Ben Cobham from bluebottle, to be played every evening at sunset from October to Feb!

As the sun sets each night, AL_A’s gently swaying MPavilion will perform its own evening ritual. Installed where the structure’s roof petals and carbon fibre poles meet, LEDs will create scattered halos of light, synchronised to an immersive sound piece created by Speak Percussion, performed by the building itself. Unfolding nightly throughout MPavilion’s 2015 season, the sunset ritual is a collaboration between architect Amanda Levete, lighting designer Ben Cobram of bluebottle, and Matthias Schack-Arnott of Speak Percussion. Set yourself a sunset reminder and greet the darkness in a digital forest.

More info on MPavilion here.