FOREIGN, INTIMATE
PROGRAM NOTES
FLORA CARBO & EITAN RITZ
Naarm based saxophonist Flora Carbo and electronic musician Eitan Ritz will present a new work exploring feedback loops created by live processing. This intimate duo blurs the lines between acoustic, amplified and improvised sound, locating the physical in sound production. Live projections created by Eitan will magnify and abstract the performance, creating new feedback loops - sound influencing visuals and visuals influencing sound.
In an ongoing collaborative conversation, painter and poet Caitlin Aloisio Shearer has developed a poem alongside the compositional process. The text has been translated into melody and phrasing for the piece. Following the voice of the poem, the instrumentation responds to its gait and phonetics.
Besides
Just besides
Besides myself
Looking on
Self soothing
Tie it up with a knot
And hand it back to myself
And yet, falling short
What do I do with my hands
While you bite your nails
Tap incessantly
Whither, weather, with and without
In habits of eyes tracing shapes
Sequential
Fingers applying pressures
To the fingers
Thumb and forefinger
Sliding back and forth
Together
Trying to look after myself
Fingertipping
Is strength
I found something special
Unspecified
Solo drums and electronics
Joe Talia is a Melbourne/Narrm born composer and improviser who has recently returned to Australia after an extended stint in Tokyo, where he was an important member of its vibrant improvised music scene. He uses percussion, Revox tape machine, analogue synthesisers and field recordings to build sparkling, detail rich sound worlds of gliding tones, skittering percussion and burbling location atmospherics. Presenting a new solo work for drum kit and electronics, Joe will bring studio composition and electroacoustic practice into a live acoustic drum context where multi layered textures and tones become rhythm and pulses disintegrate into spectral bursts.
Mahagonny is an international interdisciplinary project based between Berlin, Naarm/Melbourne and Boorloo/Perth. It consists of visual artist Lena Czerniawska and composer-performers Emilio Gordoa, Michael McNab & Josten Myburgh. Their work is a unique assemblage of electro-acoustic composition, improvised music & installation, achieved through working with multi-screen projection, multi-channel sound, networking technology & instrumental performance across vibraphone, percussion & saxophone. The group's actions draw out the innate theatre and poetry in experimental music performance, and frame striking visuals with complex sound worlds. The ensemble toured Australia in 2019, performing and giving workshops in Perth, Adelaide, Tanunda, Melbourne, Hobart, Canberra and Sydney.
www.eitanritz.net
@eitanritz
www.floracarbo.com
@floracarbo
@caitlin_she
