Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Dangerous, compelling and wildly crafted sonic imaginations. The contrabass solo ‘Table of Knowledge’, which gives this performance its title, refers to a section of the Medieval-inspired garden of the Cistercian Abbey of Royaumont visited by composer Liza Lim. Arrayed there were the ingredients of a hallucinogenic mixture known as witches’ flying ointment: datura, belladonna, henbane and cannabis. These plants are understood in various traditions as ‘pharmakon’ – both poison and remedy! The idea of dangerous, compelling and wildly crafted sonic imaginations continues throughout the concert programme. Richard Barrett’s ‘splinter’ is ferocious, unrelenting and demanding-by contrast Einar Torfi Einarsson’s graphic score is implosive and subterranean. Trios for percussion, harp and contrabass by Mary Bellamy and Dominik Karski present energised yet beguiling strange alternative folk musics.

The programme features high-level contrabass performance from virtuosi Kathryn Schulmeister and Rohan Dasika, joined by Marshall McGuire (harp) and Peter Neville (percussion).

Performers
ELISION ensemble

Rohan Dasika, contrabass
Marshall McGuire, harp
Peter Neville, percussion
Kathryn Schulmeister, contrabass

Featured non-Australian music: Works by Richard Barrett, Mary Bellamy and Einar Torfi Einarsson

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on 0396 993 333 or by email to daryl@elision.org.au

Featured artists

• Presented by Elision Ensemble
• Music of Liza Lim
• Music of Dominik Karski