‘Kaleidoscope’ – a word of Greek origin and a composite of kalos, meaning beauty, eidos, meaning shape, and skopeo to look or to examine. Together, they refer to the ‘observation of beautiful forms.’ It is a word, says Ian Cleworth , which has recently been used a lot in the vocabulary of TaikOz and its…
Percussion ensembles Synergy Percussion and TaikOz, join forces to present pulse:heart:beat, a concert which they warn will ‘shake the foundations of the city with one powerful beating heart.’ For over four decades, Synergy Percussion has led contemporary percussion music in Australia. Its sister group, TaikOz, established in 1997 features some of the country’s best Japanese taiko drum musicians. The concert is…
TaikOz is thrilled to announce an exciting collaboration with award-winning media arts producer and sound artist, Tokyo Love-In: Origin of O. Incorporating video, photography and graphics with computer-generated music and live performance, Origin of O fuses the heart thumping, primal beats of the taiko with digitally created soundscapes. Explore the organic beauty of the taiko, as demonstrated by the TaikOz…