Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Wreckage is an exciting and significant collaboration between Australian composers Oren Ambarchi [Sunn 0))), Jim O'Rourke, John Zorn] and James Rushford [Golden Fur, Jon Rose String Quartet, Francis Plagne].  This exceptional work was premiered in September 2011 at Oslo's Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, and will now be given its Australian premiere.  Cycling through a set of asymmetrical harmonic and rhythmic patterns, the composition is a study in displacement.  The material, though repetitive, shifts itself in unpredictable ways to create an amorphous, and extremely delicate, sonic world.  Wreckage draws upon both avant-garde and avant-pop sensibilities, loosely influenced by the work of Alvin Lucier, Luciano Cilio and Roberto Cacciapaglia.  This is a reflection of both composers' engagement with rock, experimental, and improvised musics.

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9699 33 33.

Featured artists

• Music of Oren Ambarchi
• Music of James Rushford
• Performer Kim Tan
• Performer Karen Heath
• Performer Phoebe Green
• Performer Judith Hamann
• Performer Nat Grant
• Performer Oren Ambarchi
• Performer James Rushford

Featured non-Australian music

Alvin Lucier - Still Lives