Offspring Bites 2
Offspring Bites is Ensemble Offspring’s biennial audio-visual series launched in 2017, celebrating living Australian chamber works written for Ensemble Offspring by pairing them with bespoke visual content. Giving the most exceptional commissions a life beyond the concert hall, our Offspring Bites initiative takes a holistic approach to the documentation of Australian art music with an integrated audio and visual element.
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The second Offspring Bites release celebrates the output of some great Australian female composers with whom Ensemble Offspring has collaborated over a period of time – Bree van Reyk (composer and longtime member of Ensemble Offspring), Andrea Keller (Melbourne jazz pianist and composer), Holly Harrison (young Western Sydney composer), Cassie To (student composer when she wrote this work) and Melody Eötvös (now teaching in Melbourne after many years in the USA). Likewise, the video artists are some of Australia’s best and most prolific. Each has developed a strong synergy with the composer and created something tailored to the mood, content and theme of that specific musical work.
Tracklist
Cassie To – Avialae (2015)
Holly Harrison – Vibe Rant (2016)
Bree van Reyk – Light for the FIrst Time (2017)
Melody Eötvös – Tardigradus (2017)
Andrea Keller – Love In Solitude (2017)
Performers
Claire Edwardes (percussion / Artistic Director)
Lamorna Nightingale (flutes)
Jason Noble (clarinet, bass clarinet)
Véronique Serret (violin)
Freya Schack-Arnott (cello)
Bernadette Harvey (piano, track 1)
Jacob Abela (piano, track 5)
Released 2019
