FREE Late Night Sonic Space
July 1st 2010 05:21
NEW MUSIC NETWORK presents
austraLYSIS
The Late Night Sonic Space
In the first of two collaborations with the vocal ensemble Halcyon, austraLYSIS presents The Late Night Sonic Space, performed in the intimacy of Studio 227 at the ABC Centre, Ultimo.
The program includes two large purely electroacoustic works including one by Canadian Robert Normandeau, together with the first performance of Roger Dean’s Toy Language 1, for Jenny Duck-Chong of Halcyon, with live electronics.
A sound and text work by Hazel Smith and Joanna Still (UK), Clay Conversations 2 rounds out the program. There will also be live chat with austraLYSIS members, providing an unusual opportunity to hear the creators’ thoughts about the music at first hand. Presented with support by ABC Classic FM.
DATE Saturday 31 July 2010
TIME 10.30pm
WHERE Studio 227, ABC Centre, Ultimo, SYDNEY
FREE EVENT
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
PHONE 0411 606 077
austraLYSIS
'Those doyens of computerised music', Sydney Morning Herald, 2008.
'Makes music on more technology than the Navy possesses', Sydney Morning Herald, 2000.
'One of the best improvising bands in the world', austraLYSIS has developed unusual techniques for control of rhythmic, timbral and harmonic interaction, and since 1995 has used computer interactive and networked technology in the austraLYSIS Electroband. 'Incredible interaction', said the Wire (UK); 'eclectic and consummate', said BBC Radio 3. Formed originally by Roger Dean in 1970 as the innovative European group LYSIS, austraLYSIS has played in 30 countries, and made more than thirty commercial recordings.
Since 1970 austraLYSIS has evolved continuously from an ensemble focused on commissioning and premiering new compositions, and presenting contemporary classics, together with improvised music; to one which creates real-time computer interactive work, and elaborately composed acousmatic music, often in intermedia contexts involving real-time image manipulation and text presentation and generation. Most work is created by members of the ensemble, often collaboratively.
Australian novelist and poet David Malouf has written of austraLYSIS' Tall Poppies CD Moving the Landscape: 'Track after track commands our attention, not just with the drama of what austraLYSIS can do, but with the variety of means, instrumentally and rhythmically, and the degree of emotion they are prepared to risk. What I liked best of all was the inwardness these performers develop, the sense we get of their moving off alone, without compromising the drama of interplay; most of all, without ever releasing tension. This is improvisation that offers increased pleasure at every hearing... Moving the Landscapes is a real coup.'
Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo soprano
Mezzo soprano Jenny Duck-Chong has established herself as a versatile and intelligent musician and is sought after by Sydney's finest vocal ensembles and has performed extensively with Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, The Song Company and Cantillation. Renowned for her dramatic portrayals of tragic heroines, such as Purcell’s Dido, Monteverdi’s Arianna and Britten’s Phaedra, as well as her formidable performances of contemporary works such as Ligeti’s Síppal, Dobbal, Nahigedüvel, Macmillan’s Raising Sparks, Benjamin’s Upon Silence and Berio’s Folksongs, she has been a featured soloist with ensembles as varied as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Sydney Baroque, Ensemble Offspring, the Renaissance Players and the Kevin Hunt Jazz Trio.
Performance highlights include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Jane Glover and the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Orchestra, Gubaidulina’s Now Always Snow with Reinbert de Leeuw, the Sydney Symphony and Cantillation and Berio’s Sinfonia with Kevin Field, the Song Company and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Malaysia and numerous performances of Steve Reich’s Tehillim Sydney, Bermagui and Melbourne.
Active in the field of new music, she is the secretary of the New Music Network and the co-founder of Halcyon, with whom she has premiered numerous Australian and international works by both acclaimed and emerging composers including Anne Boyd, Nigel Butterley, Ross Edwards, Graham Hair, Elliott Gyger, Rosalind Page, Gillian Whitehead, Kaija Saariaho, Michael Berkeley, Michael Finnissy, Gabriel Erkoreka, Sally Beamish, Melissa Hui and Kerry Andrew. She has featured as a soloist for ABC Classics and Walsingham as well as in several film and TV scores and numerous other recordings with Cantillation, the Song Company and Halcyon’s own recordings.
new music network
Dedicated to the promotion and performance of new music in Australia.
austraLYSIS
The Late Night Sonic Space
In the first of two collaborations with the vocal ensemble Halcyon, austraLYSIS presents The Late Night Sonic Space, performed in the intimacy of Studio 227 at the ABC Centre, Ultimo.
The program includes two large purely electroacoustic works including one by Canadian Robert Normandeau, together with the first performance of Roger Dean’s Toy Language 1, for Jenny Duck-Chong of Halcyon, with live electronics.
A sound and text work by Hazel Smith and Joanna Still (UK), Clay Conversations 2 rounds out the program. There will also be live chat with austraLYSIS members, providing an unusual opportunity to hear the creators’ thoughts about the music at first hand. Presented with support by ABC Classic FM.
DATE Saturday 31 July 2010
TIME 10.30pm
WHERE Studio 227, ABC Centre, Ultimo, SYDNEY
FREE EVENT
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
PHONE 0411 606 077
austraLYSIS
'Those doyens of computerised music', Sydney Morning Herald, 2008.
'Makes music on more technology than the Navy possesses', Sydney Morning Herald, 2000.
'One of the best improvising bands in the world', austraLYSIS has developed unusual techniques for control of rhythmic, timbral and harmonic interaction, and since 1995 has used computer interactive and networked technology in the austraLYSIS Electroband. 'Incredible interaction', said the Wire (UK); 'eclectic and consummate', said BBC Radio 3. Formed originally by Roger Dean in 1970 as the innovative European group LYSIS, austraLYSIS has played in 30 countries, and made more than thirty commercial recordings.
Australian novelist and poet David Malouf has written of austraLYSIS' Tall Poppies CD Moving the Landscape: 'Track after track commands our attention, not just with the drama of what austraLYSIS can do, but with the variety of means, instrumentally and rhythmically, and the degree of emotion they are prepared to risk. What I liked best of all was the inwardness these performers develop, the sense we get of their moving off alone, without compromising the drama of interplay; most of all, without ever releasing tension. This is improvisation that offers increased pleasure at every hearing... Moving the Landscapes is a real coup.'
Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo soprano
Mezzo soprano Jenny Duck-Chong has established herself as a versatile and intelligent musician and is sought after by Sydney's finest vocal ensembles and has performed extensively with Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, The Song Company and Cantillation. Renowned for her dramatic portrayals of tragic heroines, such as Purcell’s Dido, Monteverdi’s Arianna and Britten’s Phaedra, as well as her formidable performances of contemporary works such as Ligeti’s Síppal, Dobbal, Nahigedüvel, Macmillan’s Raising Sparks, Benjamin’s Upon Silence and Berio’s Folksongs, she has been a featured soloist with ensembles as varied as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Sydney Baroque, Ensemble Offspring, the Renaissance Players and the Kevin Hunt Jazz Trio.
Performance highlights include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Jane Glover and the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Orchestra, Gubaidulina’s Now Always Snow with Reinbert de Leeuw, the Sydney Symphony and Cantillation and Berio’s Sinfonia with Kevin Field, the Song Company and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Malaysia and numerous performances of Steve Reich’s Tehillim Sydney, Bermagui and Melbourne.
Active in the field of new music, she is the secretary of the New Music Network and the co-founder of Halcyon, with whom she has premiered numerous Australian and international works by both acclaimed and emerging composers including Anne Boyd, Nigel Butterley, Ross Edwards, Graham Hair, Elliott Gyger, Rosalind Page, Gillian Whitehead, Kaija Saariaho, Michael Berkeley, Michael Finnissy, Gabriel Erkoreka, Sally Beamish, Melissa Hui and Kerry Andrew. She has featured as a soloist for ABC Classics and Walsingham as well as in several film and TV scores and numerous other recordings with Cantillation, the Song Company and Halcyon’s own recordings.
new music network
Dedicated to the promotion and performance of new music in Australia.
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