Ensemble Offspring, leaders in innovative new music have utilised crucial 3 year funding from the Australia Council to launch its national academy programme which they have called Hatched. In 2014 one young composer and one young performer will receive expert tuition and practical hands-on curatorial expertise designing a program of innovative work that showcases themselves alongside Ensemble…
In its upcoming concert Slow Flipping Harmonies, Sydney based Ensemble Offspring presents the work of the late great avant-gardist Iannis Xenakis in a Sydney pub! Xenakis’ compositions have been described as “music of a truly majestic otherness … an alien shard, glimmering in the heart of the West” (Ben Watson, The Wire). Even after his death, his striking…
After a brief hiatus during the early part of 2013, new music vocal ensemble Halcyon is back in collaboration with the New Music Network to present The Journeys. The concert features two major works, performed by female voices, harp, narrator and percussion with projected images and silhouettes by visual media artist Michael Bates. The two hauntingly beautiful…