17 Feb 2023

Filament at the Melbourne Recital Centre

2023 Performance

Filament takes you beyond musical instruments to a sound world where any physical object in existence can be musicalised. Set in the Primrose Potter Salon of the Melbourne Recital Centre, Filament is a showcase of four powerful compositional voices from around the globe. Speak Percussion presents Australian premieres of works by Cathy Van Eck (NL),  Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri (GR) and Andreas E. Frank (DE) for electronics, bespoke instruments and simple every day objects – a plant, a hairdryer, a quartet of windshield wiper motors, as well as the world premiere of Sydney-based composer Josephine Macken’s (AU) new trio. An enthralling event that pushes the bounds of musical philosophies and unexpected sound worlds.

Please join us for a post-concert panel discussion featuring leading thinkers and music makers to shed further light on the discipline of Post Instrumental Practice.

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03 Nov 2022

Polar Force at Sydney Festival

2022 Performance

Immerse yourself in the sound of Antarctica. Polar Force evokes the beauty and infinite complexity of Antarctica through an immersive and multi-sensorial performance work presented in an inflatable performance space.

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24 Oct 2022

Speak Percussion UK/Australia Tour 2022

2022 Performance Tour

Speak Percussion tours two works to the United Kingdom in November 2022.

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03 Nov 2022

Systems of Control at the Wired Lab

2022 Performance

Set amongst the sweet lanolin infused surrounds of the old Rosemount shed, Speak Percussion will activate the site through a participatory percussion event.

Taking shearing and the unique and weathered properties of the shed as both the site and sound for the work, this performance piece uses vibration, attack and repetitive percussive movements to conjure a sound harking from site-specific practices of percussionists and sheep shearers.

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03 Nov 2022

Scream Star

2022 Performance

A triptych featuring leading compositional voices in the experimental and conceptual music world, responding to all-too-familiar tropes of the live music and visuals format.

Scream Star is many things: absurd and funny, moving and creative, precise and demanding. It is, in short, seriously good music-making. It is performance art and theatre, and new music-making at its finest.” – Limelight

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03 Nov 2022

A clearing at Melbourne International Film Festival

2022 Performance

The residual remains of erasure; almost imperceptible traces on the landscape and psyche.

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04 May 2022

Before Nightfall #15 – James Nguyen and Amias Hanley at Gertrude Contemporary

2022 Performance

The 15th instalment of Before Nightfall, featuring artists Amias Hanley and James Nguyen.

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09 Mar 2022

A clearing at ACMI

2022 Performance

ACMI presents ART+FILM: Artist Film Workshop. Screening + in conversation.

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10 Nov 2021

Before Nightfall #14 Alon Ilsar

2021 Performance

Join us for Speak Percussion’s first live event for 2021.

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14 Jul 2021

March Static

2021 Performance

4 composers, 7 spaces, 50 performers, 1001 instruments

presented by Speak Percussion and the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) .

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