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The Song Company : Power Chords Attached

Event

The Song Company : Power Chords Attached

  • Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2019, 7pm
  • Venue: St David's Cathedral, Hobart — 23 Murray St, Hobart, TAS
  • Tickets: Adults: $65 | Student: $40 | Concession: $60 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (02) 8272 9500

Event Details

A collaboration across genres with a uniting interest in the deep resonances of vocal cords, struck strings, and powerful harmonies. A cluster of rising stars from Melbourne, The Omnific has already made a name for their unique rhythmic interplay and wordless metallic fantasias. The Omnific’s two five-string bass guitarists’ classic duo Kismet and other works are interleaved with multi-voice chanting and improvisation from the male voices of The Song Company in music from Magister Pérotin’s masterpiece Viderunt omnes and its late 12th-century inspirations, echoed by a high soprano in his most haunting of songs, Beata viscera. An ethereal and earthy combination of sounds you’ve never heard before feature  in the second national tour of The Song Company’s 2019 Above Beyond season. Australia’s premier vocal ensemble joins forces with the rising bass guitar duo, Matthew Fackrell & Toby Peterson-Stewart from Melbourne metal band The Omnific for a resonant mix of plainchant, dynamic basslines, and 12th-century organum from Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris composer Magister Pérotin’s –   Power Chords Attached is a dynamic collaboration across genres sparked by our uniting interest in the deep resonances of vocal cords, struck strings, and powerful harmonies. The Omnific has already made a name for their unique rhythmic interplay and wordless metallic fantasias. The performance will feature their popular songs Kismet, Objets de Vertu, and launch new track That’s all she wrote, interleaved with multi-voice chanting and improvisation by The Song Company. Together they will perform an inspired arrangement of 12 century composer Magister Pérotin’s masterpiece  Viderunt omnes , echoed by a high soprano in his most haunting of songs,  Beata viscera. French composer Pérotin is known as having introduced the composition of polyphony in four parts into Western Music.

Featured non-Australian music: 12th-century organum from Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris composer Magister Pérotin’s –  Viderunt omn and  Beata viscera. 

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (02) 8272 9500 or by email to marketing@songcompany.com.au

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