Reviews & interviews from my performance of Chrysalis at this years SPOR Festival (Denmark):
“virtuosic performance” The Wire
http://thewire.co.uk/archive/issues/354
“time, place & space flow together” Kunsten Nu (in Danish)
http://www.kunsten.nu/artikler/artikel.php?matthias+schack+arnott+chrysalis+spanien+19b+sporfestival
Speak Percussion is performing the premiere of a new project at this year’s Totally Huge New Music Festival in Perth. TRANSDUCER is a double-bill featuring a new work by Robin Fox and Eugene Ughetti exploring the microphone and speaker as sonic objects, alongside Stockhausen’s seminal Mikrophonie 1 for 6 players on 1 tam-tam.
8pm Saturday 10th August
Hackett Hall Gallery, Western Australian Museum
James Street, Perth WA
Book your tickets here
Honoured to be performing alongside the great Jon Rose in two shows this week.
16/07/13 – 9pm. Make It Up Club, Bar Open, Fitzroy:
Rose/Schack-Arnott/Pankhurst. Also on the bill is a quartet featuring the wonderful Peter Knight, Joe Talia, Brett Thompson & myself.
17/07/13 – 7pm. Conduit Arts, Fitzroy:
Rose/Schack-Arnott/Heilbron
Its just been announced that i’ll be doing a new work for the 2014 Next Wave Festival.
Working name for the project is Metal Mass Tide. More soon.
Delighted to be performing with a stellar line-up of improvisors for Australian Art Orchestra’s Hard Core On the Fly project this Monday.
8pm. Monday 20 May
Chapel Off Chapel
12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran, VIC 3181
$23 Full / $17 Concession
Australia’s premier large ensemble for improvising musicians, the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO) has undertaken an extraordinary array of projects since 1994 and features a range of remarkable ensemble members, guest soloists and composers. For Hard Core on the Fly the emphasis is on spontaneous solo and ensemble improvisation, with several senior members of the AAO taking on a mentoring role for the gifted younger musicians.
Music Director, Scott Tinkler, leads an ensemble of musicians with a broad array of talents across an uncharted landscape of sonic possibilities. Hard Core on the Fly debuted in 2012 as part of a month long residency at Bennett’s Lane Jazz Club in Melbourne yet because of it’s improvisational nature every show is different. This event at the Stonnington Jazz Festival will give each player a chance to revisited their ideas from previous gigs and infuse them with their musical experiences of the last six months.
Scott Tinkler (trumpet)
Peter Knight (trumpet, laptop, electronics)
Erkki Veltheim (violin)
Simon Barker (drums)
Brett Thompson (guitar)
Scott McConnachie (alto saxophone)
Matthias Schack-Arnott (percussion)
Ida Duelund Hansen (double bass)
After its debut season at the 2012 Next Wave Festival, my solo project Chrysalis heads to Denmark’s premiere contemporary music and sound art festival, SPOR.
9-12 May
Spanien 19B
Mellemarmen, Exhibition Space
Aarhus, Denmark
Click here to book your ticket
Thanks to everyone who supported this tour via Pozible!!
I’ll be performing an amplified percussion set at SPOT Festival in Aarhus, Denmark. This is Denmark’s main festival for emerging indie/pop acts, so my prepared percussion savagery might get picked up by Sony BMG, you never know.
At SPOT Festival Matthias will perform his newly developed solo work for amplified percussion, exploring the fragile and unstable textures that arise through friction between materials. Granite, aluminum, glass, scorched wood and sand are used to create ever-eroding sonic structures, brimming with detail. Dark, volatile and otherworldly.
2-2.30pm
Saturday 4 May
Den Rå Hal, Godsbanen
Århus, Denmark
More info here
Click here for the link to my Pozible campaign.
I was recently invited to present my debut solo project, Chrysalis, at the prestigious SPOR Festival in Århus, Denmark. Chrysalis is a hybrid work in which I worked with BURO architects to create a new percussive instrument that is also an architectural micro space. One person at a time is enclosed inside in complete darkness, while I perform on the exterior walls using unconventional percussive techniques, rice and sand, exploring themes of pre-natal experience and live burial. The work was premiered at Next Wave Festival 2012.
I was relying on an Australia Council grant to cover my flights and accommodation for the project, but was notified last week that this wasn’t successful. This means that 2 weeks before I head to Denmark, I have no avenues left for funding. I am now in a position where I can’t afford to pay for the flights and accommodation for the trip.
The SPOR festival appearance will be my international solo debut, and was such an amazing opportunity that I had to take this risk. This festival is a hub for leading new music and sound artists from around the world including heavyweights like Georges Aperghis, Beat Furrer, Mauricio Kagel, Christian Marclay, erikM and Rebecca Saunders.
The Chrysalis structure has been packed and sent to Denmark…
…now I just need to get there!
SPOR has covered half the freight of the structure, and I’ve paid the other half. I now just need to cover the flight and basic accommodation during my stay, which comes to a total of $3000.
Any help would contribute to making this wonderful opportunity possible.
Many thanks!
Duos & Trios at Melbourne’s nicest bar.
Fragile pieces at the hinterland of instrumental improvisation.
7pm Start. FREE entry.
Sunday 21 April
Monkey Bar, 181 St Georges Road
Hope to see you there!
Speak performs City Jungle at the Metropolis New Music Festival!
6pm & 9.30pm. Friday 19 April
Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
City Jungle explores the dramatic sound world of underground British electronica genres from the 1990’s including Drum’n’Bass, Jungle & Glitch. That many percussionists have a fascination with these genres is perhaps not surprising. When at its best, the music weaves complex webs of syncopated rhythms and textures, its funk and soul heritage intensified by contemporary technology. Despite these connections and appeal, the music’s fast tempi have kept its performance largely the domain of DJs in nightclubs. Created in collaboration with leading Melbourne based producer Terminal Sound System, the piece weaves fragmented beats, distorted classical timbres and ambient resonances into the world of underground club culture.
ARTISTS
Speak Percussion – notation and arrangement
Terminal Sound System – programming and composition
Eugene Ughetti – Artistic Director, Percussion
Matthias Schack-Arnott – Artistic Associate, Percussion
TICKETS
$25 Standard / $15 Concession