The Undiscovered Country and final Stellar Metal Arc performances

 

Natalie Walters will premiere the multichannel work 'Jelly Fish' followed by the minimalist tones of acclaimed Sydney ensemble Microfiche. About this event THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY: CONCERT 1   NATALIE WALTERS - AMBIENT ELECTRONICS MICROFICHE - MINIMALIST ENSEMBLE (SYD) 6 July, Wednesday, 8pm at JOLTED: 342 High St Northcote www.joltarts.org Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-undiscovered-country-concert-1-natalie-walters-microfiche-tickets-367922886257   NATALIE WALTERS - JELLY FISH Natalie Walters is an ambient music artist through the NDIS sector. Works presented in her 30 minute set feature on Walters' upcoming debut album 'Jelly Fish'. Walters began this work during COVID lockdowns in Melbourne: imaging deep sea experiences as a blissful transportation from the strains of 2021. The work has evolved out of ideas that appear in The Amplified Elephants' landmark album 'Deep Creatures' on Heavy Machinery Records. Walters is a leading member of The Amplified Elephants - a sound art ensemble from the NDIS system.   MICROFICHE - MINIMALIST ENSEMBLE Sydney based, six-piece improviser-composer collective Microfiche tie improvisation and composition into serpentine knots and unravel them live in unexpected and cathartic ways. Informed by free jazz approaches, modern compositional techniques (initially inspired by Cage and Feldman), and more recently electronics, Microfiche have emerged as one of Australia's most fresh and creative forces in our national improvised music landscape. Since forming as a student jazz ensemble at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2015, Microfiche's recent artistic endeavours have included a 2019 European tour, including a performance at Copenhagen Jazz Festival; the release of their second studio album 'Everything and Other Infinities' on Portuguese label Creative Sources Rec in 2021; a month-long performance residency with very special guests at 107, Redfern; a five-star performance at Phoenix Central's esteemed jazz festival STRATA; and an ongoing collaboration of a multidisciplinary theatre work with Living Room Theatre. In July 2022 they hit the road to perform around Australia's East Coast.     STELLAR METAL ARC  STELARC BOLT ENSEMBLE   Final performances 23–25 June, Thu–Sat, 8pm at JOLTED: 342 High St Northcote Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/stellar-metal-arc-stelarc-bolt-ensemble-tickets-337778964977   Legendary performance artist Stelarc supported by the sonic art of The BOLT Ensemble: Robotic performance art meets art music. Stelarc will deliver an enigmatic robotic arm performance, where Stelarc and his apparatuses will generate sound mechanically ­— sometimes in involuntary ways. This sound world will elide into a graphic score by JOLT Artistic Director James Hullick — with the score being performed by JOLT’s chamber ensemble, the BOLT Ensemble.