Listen Up! is Ensemble Offspring’s micro-festival of new music, bringing together Australia’s most inspiring musicians with an obsession for the newest of the new.

DETAILS

SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER, CELL BLOCK THEATRE, DARLINGHURST

WHRILING & TURNING 6PM

SONGLINE INVENTIONS 8PM

PROGRAMS

Part 1: Whirling & Turning

Tristan Coelho – read/write error (2015)

Errollyn Wallen – Dervish (2001)

Karlo Margetić – Bricks and Mortar (2020)*

Kate Neal – Wound (2022)*

Jennifer Higdon – Zaka (2003)

* World Premiere

Part 2: Songline Inventions

New and improvised music by Eric Avery, Allara, Daniel and David Wilfred alongside Ensemble Offspring.

ARTISTS

Claire Edwardes (Artistic Director, percussion)
Gabriel Fischer (percussion)
Lamorna Nightingale (flutes)
Jason Noble (clarinet, bass clarinet)
Véronique Serret (violin)
Blair Harris (cello)
Benjamin Kopp (piano)
Allara Briggs Pattison (double bass, voice)
Eric Avery (violin)
Peter Knight (Artistic Director, trumpet, electronics)
David Yipininy Wilfred (Yidaki)
Daniel Wilfred (voice)

DESCRIPTION

Rhythm is the pattern of time in music. It makes us move, it maps out our days, and it is intrinsic to the vitality of so many cultures around the world. Time as Revelator celebrates the power of the beat and the passage of time. Not shying away from a steady pulse, and with the occasional futuristic glitch thrown in, the program features original works for instrumental chamber combinations. We also celebrate the 100 anniversary of Xenakis’s birth with the contrapuntal sonic blocks of Plektó (braids), and for the first time perform the work of Cuban-born composer and 2021 Pulitzer Prize winning composer Tania León. Be immersed in funky grooves and toe-tapping rhythms performed by the virtuosic musicians of Ensemble Offspring – and not a drum machine in sight!