Heading on tour with Speak Percussion, playing a bunch of shows in Hong Kong, Eastern Europe & Scandinavia. Also, excited to be undertaking a 2-week residency with Simon Løffler & Juliana Hodkinson in Copenhagen, hosted by Klang Festival.
PERFORMANCES:
21/11/14 – 7pm. CIRCUIT w. Speak Percussion, Connect Festival, Malmø, Sweden
20/11/14 – 5pm. CIRCUIT w. Speak Percussion, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo
7/11/14 – 7pm. CIRCUIT w. Speak Percussion, GAIDA Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
3/11/14 – 7pm. CIRCUIT w. Speak Percussion, Arena Festival, Riga, Latvia
24/10/14 – 8pm. DISTANT DRUMS w. Speak Percussion, Southsite, Hong Kong
Excited to be playing a new solo set as part of the ANTECHAMBER series at Northcote’s Wesley Anne.
The line up:
MATTHIAS SCHACK-ARNOTT
GODCOCK SCRAYHOOD
ERKKI VELTHEIM & SCOTT TINKLER
8pm 15 October
Wesley Anne
250 High St, Northcote
FREE Entry
Heading on tour with Speak to Taiwan, hosted by the prestigious Taipei International Percussion Convention.
Speak will be presenting its CIRCUIT program, featuring electro-acoustic works by some of Speak’s closest collaborators. A bold and uncompromising program using fluorescent lights, reel-to-reel tape machines, samplers keyboards, effects pedals and a barrage of percussion.
Presented by the Taipei Internatinoal Percussion Convention
Time & Venue
7.30pm, 27 May 2014
National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
7.30pm, 30 May 2014
Chiayi Performing Arts Center, Chiayi, Taiwan, R.O.C.
7.30pm, 31 May 2014
Performance Hall of Cultural Bureau, Hsinchu County, Taiwan, R.O.C.
2.30pm, 1 June 2014
Yuanlin Performance Hall, Changhua, Taiwan, R.O.C.
PROGRAM
Thomas Meadowcroft (AUS/DE) – Cradles for 2 reel-to-reel tape machines, keyboard & playback devices
Anthony Pateras (AUS/DE) – Hypnagogics for crotales, mirco sounds & tape
Matthew Shlomowitz (AUS/UK) – Popular Contexts Volume 6 for drumkit, vibraphone and sample keyboard
Simon Løffler (Denmark) – b for fluorescent lights, effects pedals & a loose jack cableArtists
ARTISTS
Eugene Ughetti – Artistic Director, Percussion
Matthias Schack-Arnott – Artistic Associate, Percussion
Leah Scholes – Percussion
Travis Hodgson – Lighting Designer
ABC Arts: ”…an intimate and fascinating theatrical work. He’s clearly a consummate musician, and the sounds and rhythms he creates are constantly surprising. This is a must-see.”
Matthew Lorzenzon/Realtime: “The installation is as thought-provoking as it is beautiful. Theatrically stunning, aurally stimulating, Fluvial is an unmissable experience at this year’s Next Wave festival.”’
Photos by Jesse Hunniford:
Thrilled to being creating a major new solo work for this year’s Next Wave Festival.
FLUVIAL
Matthias Schack-Arnott: Artistic Direction, Composition, Performance
Steve Walsh: Art Technician
Lucas Paine: Timber, Stone & Metal work
Travis Hodgson: Lighting Designer
Presented by Next Wave Festival in association with Speak Percussion
A horizon of quivering metals, glass and stone are used to create a work of shimmering textural extremes, exploring tidal movement, erosion and alchemical transformation. Found objects are suspended en masse from the ceiling to create dense kinetic systems. Suspended glass bottles quiver and collide. Overlapping metal tubes create glistening harmonic swells and 21 wind chimes create a sonic haze as they hover and sway above the instrument. Fluvial renders the percussive instrument into a teeming fluid mass, moving between the ecstatic and the absurd.
Date: 1 – 4, 7 – 11 May 2014
Location: Arts House – North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry St, North Melbourne VIC 3051
Time: 7pm, matinees weekends 2pm
Duration: 35 mins
Accessibility: Wheelchair Accessible
Ticket Prices: $10
Playing in several concerts as part of this year’s Adelaide Festival, including a major new work with Speak Percussion, my first appearance with the legendary Elision ensemble, and and the chance to work with John Zorn, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O’Malley, Illan Volkov & Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Wild.
TECTONICS Day 1
Sun 9 Mar 2.30pm – 7pm
Grainger Studio
Oren Ambarchi – New Work (world premiere)
Speak Percussion, Ensemble and Oren Ambarchi Soloist.
Click here for full program.
TECTONICS Day 2
Mon 10 Mar, 2.30pm – 11pm
Queen’s Theatre
Giacinto ScelsI Riti : I funerali d’Achille for Percussion Quartet
James Rushford Whorl Would Equal Reaches* (world premiere) for Percussion Sextet with Electronics
Evraiki, Robbie Avenaim with guests
South Pole, Iancu Dumitrescu – Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O’Malley w. Eugene Ughetti & Matthias Schack-Arnott (World Premiere)
Click here for full program.
ZORN IN OZ: Classical Marathon – ELISION Ensemble
Wed 12 Mar 7.30pm
2 hours 20 minutes (including interval)
Queen’s Theatre
Click here for full program.
An interivew and recording of my solo prepared percussion piece, Divisadero, has just been released as a podcast on ABC. Click here to listen!
I’ve composed a new three-channel percussion work for a beautiful video piece by Drew Pettifer. The work opens at VCA’s Margaret Lawrence Gallery this Thursday (while I’m performing Speak’s Melbourne Festival project at Federation Square). I’ve written for 3 octaves of quarter tone aluminium tubes, blown bottles and prepared bass drums. I’m quite happy with it. Click here to hear an excerpt of the audio.
Drew Pettifer
Mapping the interior: In search of an inland sea
In collaboration with Marcin Wojcik and Matthias Schack-Arnott
Produced by Antuong Nguyen
Recording and sound engineering: Joe Talia. Sound consultant: Byron Scullin.
Opening celebration: Thursday 17 October, 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: 18 October to 16 November, 2013
Live Performance: Tuesday 22 October, 6pm
Mapping the interior: In search of an inland sea is an immersive 3-channel video installation inspired by colonial explorer Charles Sturt’s championing of the idea of an inland sea in Central Australia. Sturt was so convinced of his theory that he led a major expedition into the interior, taking not one but two whaleboats with him. The incongruous image of men carrying these boats through the harsh Australian landscape forms the central motif of this project. The work revolves around themes of desire, masculinity, vulnerability, futility, and endurance as it contemplates Sturt’s rampant desire to penetrate the interior of the country and reflects the uncanny relationship between the figure and landscape in a postcolonial Australian context.
Presented by Speak Percussion & SIAL Sound Studios in association with Melbourne Festival
8pm Wednesday 16 October 2013
8pm & 10pm Thursday 17 October 2013
Deakin Edge, Federation Square
$25 / $20 Tickets here
The Black of the Star (Le Noir de L’Etoile) is the epic percussion masterwork of French avant-garde composer Gérard Grisey. The piece bases its rhythms on the cosmic pulses of neutron stars, as they wheel in space like great cosmic lighthouses, transmitting regular bursts of light toward Earth.
Six percussionists positioned around the audience are joined, through the magic of the CSIRO’s Parkes telescope, by new recordings of the pulsars on which Grisey based the work, bringing the composer’s vision to magnificent, trembling life. Hypnotic, enthralling and humbling, join Speak Percussion on a voyage to the stars with this sonic odyssey through time and space.
Performers Eugene Ughetti (Artistic Director), Matthias Schack-Arnott (Artistic Associate), John Arcaro, Louise Devenish, Leah Scholes & Paul Tanner
Sound Diffusion Lawrence Harvey (Director, SIAL Sound Studios) & Jeffrey Hannam
Pulsar Recording George Hobbs (Research Scientist, CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science)
Lighting Design Travis Hodgson
Performing in a new site-specific work by Fritz Hauser & Boa Baumann in a romain ruin outside Basel! Killer line-up of players, including Speak Percussion, Ensemble XII, Bob Becker, Synergy and more. This show is being advertised on billboards all over Basel… Thats how the Swiss do new music!
8:30pm
Wednesday 28th – Saturday 31st August
Augusta Raurica, Roman Amphitheatre (open air)
Giebenacherstrasse 17, Augst, Switzerland
More info here.