Applications are now open for Ensemble Offspring’s 2017 Hatched Academy, an intensive music program aimed at providing practical experience to emerging innovative young Australian performers and composers. Ensemble Offspring is looking for composers and performers under 30 with a passion for the ‘sonic weird and wonderful’. Designed to provide practical experience, the Academy will equip artists…
The APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards for 2016 have been announced, recognising the creative successes of musicians across the nation, in a broad range of styles. Winners in 11 national categories and eight state and territory categories were announced in Melbourne earlier this week. Percussionist Claire Edwardes has been recognised twice over. She won the award…
Noise Husbandry is an electro-acoustic work commissioned for the new ‘Action Stations’ permanent exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum and created by composer James Humberstone. For one night, Noise Husbandry brings James Humberstone’s live score to the Maritime Museum, when these newly composed works, largely recorded in the ANMM submarine by Ensemble Offspring, can be heard throughout…