02/11/18 Australian Art Orchestra at Wangaratta Jazz Festival
Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger Than Space
A contemplation of the centenary of Armistice Day in music. Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger than Space presents three world premieres by composers Andrea Keller, Tilman Robinson and AAO Artistic Director Peter Knight. Inspired by stories of those who returned from the battlefields of Gallipoli, the Somme, Passchendaele, and Verdun, Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger than Space focusses on those who tried to pick up their ‘normal’ lives after the war. For their compositions, the three composers use traditional ensemble textures along with archival recordings, tape, electronics and improvisation, to create an intense listening experience that is at once evocative and challenging.
Peter Knight trumpet/electronics/composition
Andrea Keller piano/composition
Tilman Robinson electronics/composition
Georgie Darvidis voice
Lizzy Welsh violin
Aviva Endean clarinets
James Macaulay trombone
Jacques Emery double bass
Simon Barker drum kit
Jem Savage system design/production