We perform our Australian Electroacoustic Percussion program in the intimate surroundings of theThird Coast Percussion Studio. Stay afterwards for a complimentary glass of wine and a chat with the artists.
7pm, Thursday 21st March
Third Coast Percussion Studio
4045 N Rockwell Street
Chicago, USA
Composer Kevin James’ ambitious new multi-media work Vanishing Languages features stereophonic audio content collected from field recordings of languages on the verge of extinction. This premiere performance is presented by MiShinnah Productions and Speak Percussion performs in collaboration with ETHEL and Del Sol string quartets, the [kaj] Ensemble and Nonsemble 6.
8pm, Thursday 28th & Friday 29th March
Roulette, Brooklyn, New York, USA
8pm, Friday 5th & Saturday 6th April
ODC Dance Commons, San Francisco, USA
Speak Percussion performs at Berln’s premiere new music festival, MaerzMusik. A program of Australian Electroacoustic Percussion works that shift between avant-garde pop, conceptual minimalism, progressive rock and noise. Each work subverts conventional instruments by using domestic objects, micro-instruments, found sound, tape machines and a midi keyboard blurring the boundaries between percussion and electronics. World premieres by Matthew Shlomowitz and Thomas Meadowcroft, who will also appear as a guest performer.
10pm, Saturday 16 March
Haus Der Berliner Festspiele
12 Euro entry
Anthony Pateras – Hypnagogics (2005) solo for micro sounds, crotales and tape
Thomas Meadowcroft – new work (2013) for two percussionists and organ (world premiere)
Matthew Shlomowitz– Popular Contexts, Volume 6 (2013) for three percussionists (world premiere)
Rohan Drape – See Hearer Clearer (2012) for three percussionists, electromagnetic piano and tape (European/German premiere)
Thomas Meadowcroft – The Great Knot (2011) for 3 percussionists, midi keyboard and tape
Excited to be performing with the incredible Erkki Veltheim (violin/viola) and Scott McChonnachie (saxaphones) this month in a new trio formation. Extreme free improvisation.
Dates are:
20/02/13 – 7.30pm. Veltheim/McConnachie/Schack-Arnott trio performing at the album launch of Callum G’Froerer’s City Speaks, Northcote Uniting Church
26/02/13 – 9pm. Veltheim/McConnachie/Schack-Arnott trio, Make It Up Club, Bar Open, Fitzroy
Speak Percussion’s avant Drum’n’Bass project is heading to Brisbane for the first time, thanks to Clocked Out’s Trilling Wire Series. If you’re in town, check it out!
7pm. Thursday 7 Febuary, 2013
Queensland Conservatorium Foyer, South Bank, Brisbane
Clocked Out Duo: Time Crystals
Speak Percussion: City Jungle
City Jungle explores the dramatic sound world of Jungle and Drum’n’Bass, two of the hallmark British electronica genres from the 1990’s. That many percussionists have a fascination with Drum’n’Bass is perhaps not surprising. When at its best, it 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. Melbourne’s musical pioneers Speak Percussion have collaborated with leading producer Terminal Sound System to create a fast-paced set inspired by the British electronica scene, moving between fragmented beats, distorted rhythms and ambient resonances.
Terminal Sound System – Programming, Composition
Speak Percussion – Notation, Arranging
Eugene Ughetti – Artistic Director, Percussion
Matthias Schack-Arnott – Artistic Associate, Percussion
Here’s the video of our Sydney season…
Looking forward to performing as part of Nick Tsiavos’ epic 7 hour piece Akathistos for this year’s MONA FOMA in Hobart!
20 Jan 2013. 10-5pm. Museum of Old and New Art, FREE with Museum entry.
For full festival program, click here.
Excited to be doing my first ever solo improv set this Friday, alongside the visceral vocal work of Carolyn Connors and the new experimental folk project True Strength.
Conduit Arts, 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. $10 entry
8.00PM – MATTHIAS SCHACK-ARNOTT (solo percussion)
8.45PM – CAROLYN CONNORS (solo voice)
9.30PM – TRUE STRENGTH
Featuring Alexander Garsden (guitar) and Ida Duelund Hansen (voice, double bass). Their music draws on the languages of British and American revivalist folk from the last century, manifested in longer form compositions and textures taken from Baroque, Mid-Late Twentieth Century Classical and Experimental Music.
I have just finished a seven day residency with LOD Music Theatre in Ghent, Belgium.
Chamber Made Opera and LOD have initiated a collaboration which involves myself and Alex Garsden, along with 2-3 Flemish artists who are yet to be confirmed. The collaboration is likely to result in the premiere of 2 new small music-theatre works in 2014.
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I have just finished a seven day residency with LOD Music Theatre in Ghent, Belgium.
Chamber Made Opera and LOD have initiated a collaboration which involves myself and Alex Garsden, along with 2-3 Flemish artists who are yet to be confirmed. The collaboration is likely to result in the premiere of 2 new small music-theatre works in 2014.
Welcome to my new website. This will be regularly updated with all the events I am involved in.