Event
Diomira
- Date: Saturday, 7 October 2017, 8pm
- Venue: The Substation — 1 Market Street, Newport, VIC
- Series: This event is part of the Melbourne Festival 2017 series
- Tickets: $39-$49 — Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
Sparked off by one of the imaginary lands in Italo Calvino's novella Invisible Cities, Australian Art Orchestra's Diomira is an expedition forging a path between the observable and the unreal.
Chamber jazz orchestra expands with the additions of turntables, reel-to-reel tape machines and live signal processing, while the sounds of acoustic instruments and voices are interwoven with vinyl-cut field recordings, toying with perceptions of what is heard and what has only been imagined. This layered sound world is further augmented by multiscreen projections as time folds into itself, leaving the residue of moments half-remembered.
Exploring the spaces between the avant-garde and the traditional, art and popular music since 1994, Australian Art Orchestra is fired by the same spirit of restlessness that drove the earliest pioneers of jazz to produce music that defined the twentieth century.
Composer Peter Knight
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured Australian Works
| Diomira : for chamber jazz orchestra (2016) by Peter Knight — World premiere — performed by Australian Art Orchestra |
Featured artists
- Performer Australian Art Orchestra
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