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Two musical powerhouses blend east and west to create earth cry\u00a0<\/em>– a dark, vibrant and transformative concert experience when Synergy Percussion and,\u00a0Noreum Machi\u00a0the foremost percussion ensembles of Australia and Korea, join forces to bring together the traditional and the contemporary of both cultures.\u00a0<\/p>\n earth cry<\/em>\u00a0 will be an immersive concert experience, performed amidst a vivid environment of video projections by Sydney artist Samuel James. It is an entirely new performance of collaboratively devised works, presenting performers from both Synergy Percussion and Noreum Machi as one ensemble, drawing from both the shamanistic traditions of Korean samul-nori music and contemporary Western percussive practice. The performance features a\u00a0diversity of percussive music through a dynamic range of instruments: from western drums to the smallest and most subtle Korean gong,\u00a0marimbas and frame drums. At the core of the work will be the instruments of samul-nori: the Jing, the Kkwaenggwari, the Buk, and the principle instrument, the double-headed Janggu.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b>Since 2011, Synergy Percussion and Noreum Machi have engaged in an ongoing exchange of art, culture and ideas through music, culminating in a triumphant double-bill performance at the 2014 OzAsia festival in Adelaide to sold-out houses.\u00a0<\/p>\n In 2010, Synergy Percussion\u2019s artistic director Timothy Constable was the featured composer at the Seoul Drum Festival. It was this first trip to Korea that he had his first taste of samul-nori. Samul-nori is a style of percussion both virtuosic and profoundly spiritual, with roots in ancient shamanistic practices, and is largely unknown outside Korea. It was also his introduction to Kim Juhong, artistic director to Korea\u2019s premiere samulnori percussion ensemble, Noreum Machi.<\/p>\n