Event
Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger than Space : Australian Art Orchestra
- Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018, 8pm
- Venue: Southbank Centre (UK) — Belvedere Road, London, United Kingdom
- Series: This event is part of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2018 series
- Tickets: General: £25 plus booking fee — Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
An evocative concert inspired by stories of those who returned from the battlefields of Gallipoli, the Somme, Passchendaele, and Verdun.
Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger than Space focusses on those who tried to pick up their ‘normal’ lives after WW1, and draws from an intensely moving archive of intimate accounts of lives remembered in fine grain detail away from the thrust of battle.
The music includes three world premieres by composers Andrea Keller, Tilman Robinson and Australian Art Orchestra Director Peter Knight, with traditional ensemble textures invigorated by archival recordings, tape, electronics and improvisation, to create an intense listening experience.
Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger than Space is created in collaboration with Monash University Faculty of Arts, and responds to its 100 Stories archive. The project is supported by the Anzac Centenary Arts and Culture Fund, the Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria and the Ian Potter Foundation, and was conceived from an original concept by Paul Grabowsky AO, founding director of the Australian Art Orchestra.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (44-20) 7324 1880
Featured artists
- Jazz/improvisation by Australian Art Orchestra
- New work by Tilman Robinson
- New work by Peter Knight
- New work by Andrea Keller
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