Australia’s most innovative and cutting-edge collective, Ensemble Offspring is bringing back Kontiki Racket, its vibrant 2-day festival celebrating new music, arts and culture. The festival will feature artist talks, live video installations, and exciting new performances from Ensemble Offspring and the highly acclaimed Zephyr Quartet from South Australia. The festival’s musical highlights include world premieres from…
From the Hungry Waiting Country is a new release by Halcyon, performing the music of contemporary Australian composer, Elliot Gyger. Released on the Tall Poppies label, it contains three works by Gyger, Giving Voice (2012), Petit Testament (2008) and the cycle from which the disc takes its title, From the Hungry Waiting Country (2006). Halcyon’s…
Shards of sound and jagged rhythms envelop your ears and tickle your feet as Ensemble Offspring brings to life the wild and uncompromising squiggles of local composers Alex Pozniak, Tristan Coelho and Holly Harrison. With sound worlds so distinctive, Ensemble Offspring needed to coin a new name for their music, and they called it Spectral…