BESPOKE PROGRAM PRESENTATIONS

The Bespoke Artists Program supports young music makers, independent, early-mid career artists and arts workers with a focus on career sustainability. Across this two year program, participants receive professional development in three key areas; business, career and artistic leadership. The Bespoke program offers a group of emerging / mid-career music, sound and performance artists the opportunity to develop skills for ongoing self-sustaining artistic inquiry. This long-term engagement with Speak Percussion will be in two stages. The first half includes workshops in arts business, organisation and artistic development. In the second half, some participants will work towards realising their own project, with support from Speak’s administrative and artistic team in securing opportunities for their work.

AXON

Axon is a weekend of sonic experiments and music conceived and presented by Speak Percussion’s Bespoke Artists. This intimate showcase features live performances of 12 interdisciplinary works, split into 4 concert programs across 3 days, at Darebin Arts Centre.

From synthesisers to erhu, experimental chamber orchestra to audio-visual performance-installation, witness these 12 inventive music makers share their newest ideas, fascinations and most recent artistic work.

Axons are the primary transmission lines of our nervous systems, which enable the communication of information between different parts of the body. This weekend of concerts aims to enable and encourage new connections and transmissions of information amongst and between the artists, their works and you: the audience.

“Speak Percussion’s Bespoke Artists are some of the most inventive new music makers working in Melbourne. For the past 18 months, the presenting 12 artists have been supported by us and by each other, to take the next steps in their careers: to forge their own pathway and consolidate their own idiosyncratic vision for music making. Their Axon program of experiments and new works gives the broader community a wonderful opportunity to experience their fledgling ideas and artistic practices as they evolve and materialise.” – Speak Percussion

Image credit: Darren Gill

IN ORBIT 

In Orbit is a live performance of three thrilling new interdisciplinary works, conceived and presented by the Bespoke Artists: seven early to mid-career artists selected to participate in Speak Percussion’s professional development program for their potential as the next generation of cultural leaders.

Speak’s Bespoke Artists Program supports independent artists and arts workers with a focus on career sustainability, providing professional development in three key areas; business, career and artistic leadership.

Over the last two years the Bespoke Artists have worked together to develop three innovative interdisciplinary works, under the mentorship of Speak Percussion, composer Kate Neal and visual artist Cameron Robbins.