FREYA-SCHACK-ARNOTT: Invisibility
Australian cello music that speaks to the Australian landscape
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Bronwyn Kirkpatrick and the APQ Strings
Bronwyn Kirkpatrick-Shakuhachi
Thomas Rann-Cello
James Wannan-Viola
Kristian Winther-Violin
100clickswest
“Brave programming that we just don’t see anywhere else”
“The performances ...were excellent, and the combination of those with your lovely home and the warm, welcoming group of people within it made it truly special. ”
Welcome to one of Wentworth Falls’ best-kept secrets!
Since 2016, 100clicksWest has presented cutting edge-music in the Blue Mountains, in the home of artistic director and composer Felicity Wilcox, where beautiful natural acoustics set up an intimate listening space. These concerts feature exceptional performers and original new music on every bill. With valley views and a free glass of wine, each experience is unique and allows for audience members to mingle with each other and the artists. This wonderful event in the heart of the upper mountains can be enjoyed during a weekend away from Sydney, or on a regular basis for mountains folk. Come and join our devoted community of regulars!
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100clickswest acknowledges the Darug people, traditional owners of the land on which we make music, and pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
We are grateful to be part of a long tradition of music-making that goes back millennia on this beautiful and inspiring land.
always was, always will be aboriginal land.
Air Mass is a new electroacoustic performance piece by award-winning saxophonist Nick Russoniello. This work invites performers and listeners to engage deeply with the present moment; the shared air mass that surrounds them. Exploring an intersection between performance art and the traditional concert experience, Air Mass draws on audience-generated soundscapes, live-looping, body percussion and physical gesture. Special guest Anthea Cottee will join Nick to perform a selection of pieces on viola da gamba.
Nick Russoniello is a highly accomplished and dynamic saxophonist, composer, ensemble leader and educator. Nick has appeared as a soloist or guest musician with most of Australia’s premier arts organisations including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Australian World Orchestra, the Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra, the Metropolitan Orchestra and the Acacia Quartet. He has been the recipient of major awards including the ABC Symphony Australian Young Performer of the Year Award and the Fine Music Kruger Scholarship. Nick’s projects and ensembles are highly acclaimed, with appearances for the Royal College of Music (London), Conservatorio di Milano (Italy) and the Strasbourg Cité De La Musique (France). Nick’s original compositions for saxophone are performed regularly by saxophonists around the globe.
On the occasion of her show at 100clicksWest, Jasmine will present her installation work Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity and perform a live electronics set through a multi-channel sound system.
Jasmine Guffond is an artist and composer born in Sydney / Gadigal Country and currently living in Berlin. Focused on electronic composition across music and art contexts her practice spans live performance, recording andinstallation. Interested in the interplay between human and machine agency in electronic music making, she has released solo records on the Sonic Pieces, Karl Records, Editions Mego and OOH-Sounds labels. Working with abstract sounds as much as traditional musical forms, more-than-human logics emerge, a kind of alien intelligence that questions an assumed central position of human subjectivity in socio-technical assemblages. Considering the broader implications in an increasingly technologically mediated world Jasmine seeks to develop her own musical language while acknowledging the input from her music making devices.
https://jasmineguffond.com/
100clicksWest is both proud and honoured to bring two of Australia’s most innovative improvising performers together for the first time, in a combined live set featuring the sounds of voice and flutes.
Sonya Holowell is a Dharawal and Inuk vocalist, composer, writer and researcher. Her work spans many contexts and forms, with improvisation as a primary mode towards emancipatory aims. Sonya’s work as a vocalist and composer has been shown on numerous festival platforms. She has collaborated with leading new music ensembles such as the Song Company, JACK Quartet, Ensemble Offspring, International Contemporary Ensemble, Decibel, Tura New Music and the Australian Art Orchestra, and has presented her manifold work at leading Australian venues.
Jim Denley has worked with the text/music groups Machine for Making Sense, and 180º, releasing their first recording, Submental in 2019. With Splinter, he has recorded for ABC TV and Radio and their second CD, MUNGO was released in 2016. Through Fire, Crevice and the Hidden Valley documents Jim’s deep engagement with the Budawang Mountains south of Sydney. His current project is a new set of recordings: In Weather Volume 1: The Hidden Valley, With Weather Volume 2: Gadigal Country (2023), and As Weather Volume 3: Budawang Mountains (2024).
Thank you to all the wonderful collaborating musicians and our loyal audience, who help to make the 100clicksWest vision such a success!
6-8pm March 4, 2023
6-8pm April 1, 2023
6-8pm May 20, 2023
6-8pm July 1, 2023
6-8pm November 4, 2023
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 6-8 pm
Saturday, 9 April 2022, 5-7pm
Saturday, 7 May 2022, 5-7pm
Saturday, 12 November 2022, 6-8pm
Bronwyn Kirkpatrick-Shakuhachi
Thomas Rann-Cello
James Wannan-Viola
Kristian Winther-Violin