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…
Innovative ‘New Music’ performers Ensemble Offspring and Brisbane-based duo Clocked Out join forces to present a performance they have called ‘The Listening Museum.’ This interactive, real time surround-sound experience features performance installations with bass drums and ping pong balls, kinetic sound generating objects, sine tones, a prepared grand piano and more. The Listening Museum is an imaginative collaboration between two…