Category: Ensemble Offspring

Carriageworks, Sydney Chamber Opera and Ensemble Offspring presents AN INDEX OF METALS, Music by Fausto Romitelli, Text by Kenka Lekovich, in Bay 20, at Carriageworks, Wilson St. Redfern. 16 – 19 November. An Australian Premiere. AN INDEX OF METALS – 2003 – is the last work by Italian composer, Fausto Romitelli, an electro-acoustic investigation where he wanted to access the ‘limits of perception by projecting sound as though it were light, reaching the extreme hallucination whereby sound is seen. The aim of AN INDEX OF METALS is to turn the secular form of opera into an experience of total perception,…

  Sydney Opera House presents THE COMPOSERS: STEVE REICH IN RESIDENCE. A Celebration with Synergy Percussion and eighth blackbird in the Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House. STEVE REICH IN RESIDENCE is part of the Sydney Opera House entrepreneurial development wing program. It is presented under the title: THE COMPOSERS and is curated by Yarmila Alfonzetti, the Producer, Classical Music, Sydney Opera House. A CELEBRATION is one of three public events that were presented. During the week there had been an IN CONVERSATION with Mr Reich, and, on the same day as A CELEBRATION, there had been a CHAMBER…

  Performance Space presents BARGAIN GARDEN with Theatre Katanka and Ensemble Offspring in Track 5, Carriageworks. Carlos Gomes, the director and conceiver of this project tells us: This performance installation seeks to examine the urge we all share ‘to have it all’, and to explore how we use ‘stuff’ to present our identities. We wanted to investigate the process by which objects transform us into fashion icons, experts, gods and goddesses, equipped for any eventuality. All this, despite the high environmental price. We sought to examine the techniques of marketing and product  promotion in this consumer’s paradise, and to reflect…