‘Clarity Engine’ is a celebration of curiosity and the ingenuity of the musical inventor. Join us in Sydney’s newest music warehouse for a Sunday afternoon of playfulness and creativity with experimental installations, musical machines and performances by Australia’s most adventurous creators. Clarity Engine celebrates the wild, obsessive and infinitely varied creative process of artists: the messy, unpredictable and unexpected pathways that lead us to elegant, clarified artistic expression. This program then brings together all sorts of diverse, fun, interesting explorations by musical-plus-other-elements-type artists.
VIolinist Anna McMichael and percussionist Louise Devenish present their “Climate Notes” cycle of works by composers with visuals and sculptural elements. Fabulous Sydney polymath noise artist Hirofumi Uchino (Defektro) will joins us with a brand new sound sculpture. Tim Gruchy and Panos Couros will share their recent explorations into 360-degree immersive work. They will be joined by a range of exciting artists all known for their fiercely exploratory and evocative creative explorations with everything ranging from Dahyo Lloyd’s literal “Body in a Box” to Isabelle Rahme’s "bubblewrapped ghosts of objects” and LIam Mullighan’s “sound texture table”.
Join Backstage Music on 6 November for four hours of refreshingly weird, gallery-style ("dip in and out mini festival”) immersive happenings, performances and sound sculpture at the brand new Woodburn Creative warehouse at Waterloo. All brought together by guest curator Damian Barbeler.
Venue: Woodburn Creatives
82 Cope St Waterloo
Date: 2-6pm Sunday 6 November
Tickets: Adults $45
Students, Unwaged and Seniors $25
Featured Artists
Anna McMichael, Louise Devenish, Damian Barbeler, Hirofumi Uchino (Defektro), Cathy Milliken, Bree van Ryk, Daniel Blinkhorn, Kate Moore, Tim Gruchy, Panos Couros, Liz Jigalin, Dahyo Lloyd, Lewis Mosely, Liam Mulligan, Jono Watson, Tim Jetis, Emily Yali, Isabelle Rahme.
Photos of Clarity Engine (photo credit Ollie Miller)
Videos of Clarity Engine (credit Yannick Gammey)
Media from Clarity Engine
Limelight Article - Cutting Edge: Risks and Rewards by Lamorna Nightingale
Why taking music out of the concert hall has been a key element in Lamorna Nightingale's programming for BackStage Music.
… “Part of the joy of childhood is being given permission to be a free spirit – to climb trees, build cubby houses, and sing and dance with your friends. Play is an essential part of life for children, but it’s something that many people become scared of as they get older, probably due to a fear of failure. In the world of classical music, we face a challenge of balancing our striving for accuracy with flexibility and openness. The capacity to clearly communicate musical ideas is very important, and to do this we need control and technique. But in order for our art form to remain vibrant, we also need to find fresh ways of exploring sound to understand our place in the world….”
