Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Join Ensemble Offspring for Lone Hemispheres this July when they invite you within a rare sonic universe – where solos and electronics fuse in real time to create a sum bigger than their parts. Drawing from the radical imagination of the European avant-garde to the distinctive voices of contemporary Australian composers, this 70 minute program traces a lineage of music technology spanning the pioneering Fairlight Computer from the 70’s to contemporary sampling techniques and the use of Ableton and MAX/MSP sound manipulation and creation.

Jason Noble (bass clarinet), Lamorna Nightingale (flute), Claire Edwardes (marimba) and Véronique Serret (violin) perform alone yet move within each others orbits. As richly layered electronic combine with their acoustic virtuosity they form a constellation of immersive sounds where genre is blurred and boundaries dissolve.

Featured non-Australian music: Mauricio Kagel – Schattenklänge: II. Presto ; Kaija Saariaho – Noa Noa ; Christos Hatzis – Fertility Rites (movt 1).

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Featured Australian Works

	Daybreak (flute with live electronics) (2018) by Tristan Coelho
	For marimba and tape (marimba with pre-recorded sound) (1983) by Martin Wesley-Smith
	Some Kinda Way : solo clarinet with ensemble (2023) by Connor D'Netto
	Synaesthesia suite : for augmented acoustic violin and track (2014) by Kate Moore

Featured artists

• Performer Ensemble Offspring