CO-PRODUCTIONS

Night Songs

26–28 October Carriageworks, Sydney

Presented as part of Performance Space Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art and created by Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor, Night Songs was a remarkable sonic experience: an interspecies engagement between the thirteen million year old music of a uniquely Australian songbird – The Pied Butcherbird and contemporary human musicians.

Performed by Ensemble Offspring under the direction of Claire Edwardes, audiences experienced the Pied Butcherbirds long form songs, recorded over a twenty-four hour period in spring, in a one hour concentrated audio-visual encounter.

Creative team

Jon Rose | Composer

Hollis Taylor Co-composer and Musicologist

Ensemble Offspring | Performers

Claire Edwardes Conductor, Percussion and Artistic Director

Jason Noble | Clarinet and Bass Clarinet

Lamorna Nightingale Flutes

Benjamin Ward | Double Bass

Callum G’Froerer Trumpet

Rhys Little | Trombone

Ben Hoadley Bassoon

Ben Opie Oboe

Acknowledgements

Presented by Performance Space, Ensemble Offspring and Tura. Night Songs was presented as part of Performance Space Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, and with the support of the City of Sydney and APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund.

SITU-8:CITY

Site specific dance and sound works

STRUT Dance and SITU-8 team

1–11 November | Liberty Theatre

After a successful season in 2020 and 2021, eight new site specific dance and sound works filled the newly reopened Liberty Cinema, Perth’s oldest arthouse cinema as part of SITU8:City. Situ-8 continues to be a unique opportunity for independent artists to explore an exciting model of presenting independent choreography and sound in enticing and unexpected locations.

Creatives

CURATORIAL TEAM

Sofie Burgoyne and Timothy Green with assistance from Ashleigh White.

CHOREOGRAPHERS

Antonio Rinaldi and Celina Hage, Bobby Russell, Daisy Sanders, Olivia Hendry and Kimberly Parkin, Sam Coren, Sarah Aiken, Talitha Maslin, and Tom Mullane.

COMPOSERS

Alice Humphries, David Stewart and Nonie Trainor, Em Burrows, Eduardo Cossio, Felicity Groom, Louis Frere-Harvey, Peter McAvan, and Randa Khamis.

Acknowledgements

Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative, the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts – its arts and funding advisory body, the City of Perth, and the State of Western Australia though the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.