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Scalp: Scalp #002: Crowded Silence
11 April @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm AEST

New music ensemble “Scalp” returns to present the music of the late Peter Ablinger, alongside two responsive works by director Louis Wishart and ensemble member Isabella Rahme. Using walls of white noise allows time itself to become a colour, according to Ablinger, where aural illusion becomes the melody, and hearing becomes the work. Ablinger’s work “Instrumente und Rauschen” limits the audibility of its 7-piece instrumentation to 24 short panels of white noise, reducing the overall sound to extremely faint glimmers of instrumental tones. Wishart’s work “No Death” explores the threshold of mimed performance to sounded performance, drawing from Irish Folk melody tradition to source discrete motion from all possible realities. Rahme responds in her work “Cloud of Possibilities”, using a graphic score to explore the effects of the perception of a particle and its position, recognising an object as the result of all possible motions and positions.
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