Synergy Percussion Breaks Ground With Taboo

Synergy Percussion Breaks Ground With Taboo

Swap your evening dress for safari suits and revel in the exotica of seductive jungle drums, sultry vibraphone melodies and the occasional tropical birdcall, as Synergy Percussion, Australia’s premiere percussion group presents Taboo. Taboo will transform the Australian Museum with the music of the suave soundtrack to 1950’s dinner parties and cocktail soirees.   As a musical genre, Exotica…

Synergy Celebrates Its 40th With Reich’s ‘Drumming’

Synergy Celebrates Its 40th With Reich’s ‘Drumming’

Synergy Percussion celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2014 with a bang – they will perform Steve Reich’s incomparable Drumming during their anniversary concert. Inspired by African drumming patterns, this was the work that brought Reich major recognition in 1971. A feast for the ears, it’s so powerful and mesmerising that one critic noted  “it’s a…

Synergy Percussion: Xenakis vs Pateras

Synergy Percussion: Xenakis vs Pateras

  Synergy Percussion presents two ambitious works of an epic scale over two consecutive nights. Celebrating their 40th birthday this year, Synergy Percussion, Australia’s oldest and foremost contemporary music ensemble, is a world of sound with percussion at its heart. Over four decades of huge cultural change, the group has remained at the forefront of contemporary music,…