Event
Building 20 - Curated Silence
- Date: Saturday, 15 September 2018, 7:00 pm
- Venue: Newington Armory — Jamieson Street, Auburn, NSW
- Series: This event is part of the Sydney Sacred Music Festival 2018 series
- Tickets: Adults: $25 | Children: $13 | Concession: $13 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on 0412 928 302
Event Details
CHAMBER 1 In this new work conceived for the Sydney Sacred Music Festival, saxophonist Sandy Evans and koto player Satsuki Odamura explore the extraordinary acoustic of Building 20 to create an atmosphere of deep contemplation. In this moving and meditative elegy, the enchanting resonance and subtle nuances of the koto combine with the warmth and beauty of soothing saxophone melodies. The duo will also play excerpts from ‘RockPool Mirror’, recent recipient of the Art Music Award for Excellence in Jazz.
CHAMBER 2 ‘Time, people, place’ is a site-specific audiovisual installation created for the Sacred Music Festival 2018. The work features multiple directional sound design sourced from Khaled Sabsabi’s travels over 7 years across North Africa, South-East Asia, Australia and the Middle East. The work also features a 1-channel video projection work consisting of 7 individual video layers composited on top of each other. The perfomer in the video work is Agung, a traditionally trained Balinese dancer who portrays and narrates through movement the seven spiritual layers of the self, in Arabic 'nafs'.
CHAMBER 3 ‘The Inner Chamber’ is an exploration of the sacred through sound. This composition is presented in three parts: Concentration, Meditation and Samadhi, three states of meditative consciousness as taught in the Jain, Hindu and Buddhist traditions and embraced by Christian Gnostics. Paul Stender and Nicholas Ng are joined by members of the Sydney Conservatorium Chinese Music Ensemble in this musical tribute to the Chinese ANZACS—Australian & New Zealand soldiers of Chinese ancestry who served in World War I. It is inspired by the unique tradition of music performed on ‘trench cellos’, some of which were made from oil cans. Text by renowned Kiwi-Chinese writer & poet Renee Liang.
Performers: Sandy Evans (saxophone), Satsuki Odamura (koto), Khaled Sabsabi (multimedia artist), Wendy Wu (erhu), Elizabeth Cheung (zhonghu), Victoria Bromberger (zhonghu), Nicholas Ng (erhu/hulusi) & Paul Stender (cello)
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on 0412 928 302 or by email to richard@culturalartscollective.com.au
Featured Australian Works
| Contemplation by Sandy Evans and Satsuki Odamura — World premiere | |
| The Inner Chamber by Nicholas Ng — World premiere | |
| Time, People, Place by Khaled Sabsabi |
Featured artists
- New work by Sandy Evans
- New work by Nicholas Ng
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