31/50: Ensemble Offspring - Hark the Machine (2018)
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Available worldwide from 3rd Oct to 3rd Nov 2023.
In 2018, Ensemble Offspring transformed the Utzon Room with music of today and the sounds of tomorrow in a program titled 'Hark The Machine'. Like an old machine gradually coming to life, we hear the rhythmic drive of American composers David Lang and Annie Gosfield. Sounds rooted in jazz emerge from music by pianist and composer, Andrea Keller (2017 Merlyn Myer Music Commission), and Sydney composer Fiona Hill (Noisy Women Commission) transports us to a meditative other-world in a work for sextet. (Stream Premiere)
Program:
Fiona Hill – Pentography (2018) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, piano (World Premiere) 10’
Andrea Keller – Love in Solitude (2017) for piano, percussion, flute, clarinet + electronics 15′
Thomas Meadowcroft – Medieval Rococo (2016) for keyboard, percussion, flute, clarinet + electronics 12’
Annie Gosfield – Cranks & Cactus Needles (2000) for flute, piano, violin, cello 6’
David Lang – Cheating, Lying, Stealing (1993, rev. 1995) for piano, percussion, cello, bass clarinet, and brake drums 10’5
Claire Edwardes (percussion)
Veronique Serret (violin)
Blair Harris (cello)
Jacob Abela (piano)
Jason Noble (clarinet)
Lamorna Nightingale (flute)
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