Warming up your winter, Sizzle makes a much-anticipated return to the Petersham Bowling Club in 2012. Ensemble Offspring gets contemporary classical music off its high horse and takes it to the people in a series packed full of fun and surprise. Expect avant-garde contemporary classics mashed up with pop music, early music, late music
Forget your preconceptions about what music is and open your imagination to what music can be in a mind-blowing series of concerts by Ensemble Offspring in 2012. Immerse yourself in everything from the sounds of the natural world to funky loops, glitchy blips, virtuosic violins and percussive polyphony.
Ensemble Offspring’s all-star percussionists Bree van Reyk and Claire Edwardes are joined by multi-talented clarinettist cum table hitter Jason Noble, in this imaginative concert exploring the infinite realms of 21st Century music making. Mesmerising dancing hands, blindfolds, childhood stories with a backbeat and 6 bulging boomboxes
Humans have always looked in awe and wonder at the natural world and tried to reflect that order and beauty in music. Lose yourself in a poetic representation of the Mediterranean shrubland Garrigue in the work of spectralist Tristan Murail or the organic branch-like melodic patterns of Xenakis’ Plekto.
Famous for original and unexpected collaborations, Ensemble Offspring brings turntablist Martin Ng together with world-renowned Scottish accordionist James Crabb to create an evening of low and hi-fi blips beats and loops. Featuring Bernhard Lang, an Austrian composer taking Europe by storm, the group also welcomes
Unearthing the sonic possibilities of both the acoustic and the electronic, here are two world and four Australian premieres by six composers from around the globe. This is modern folk music gone insane; a posse of megaphones, bell laden gloves and a mass of melodians. New Radicals is new music to be seen, heard and most importantly, felt.
With a reputation for original and unique programming and high quality performances, Ensemble Offspring pursues an agenda of directly shaping the music of our future.
Forget your preconceptions about what music is and open your imagination to what music can be in a mind-blowing series of concerts by Ensemble Offspring in 2012.
