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ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING STARTS SYDNEY SEASON WITH SOUND SPECTRUM.On Saturday 30th May, Ensemble Offspring will be performing 'Treize couleurs du soleil couchant' by the French composer Tristan Murail at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Macquarie St at 8pm. 'Treize colours du soleil couchant' (Thirteen Colours) is a beautiful sonic metaphor for the setting sun. Like watching a sunset, the work imperceptibly draws the listener through slowly transforming colours of seemingly infinite depth and subtlety. Murail, like Messiaen and Debussy before him, is part of a legacy of French music that displays a refined sensibility for colour. Together with compatriot Gérard Grisey (whose work 'Talea' is featured in the concert), he is credited with establishing an entirely new school of composition called 'spectral music'. Just as light can be broken into a spectrum of colours, so too a rich sound can be broken into a kaleidoscope of microscopic frequencies.Continuing the theme of light is 'Fatamorgana' ('mirage' or 'optical illusion') written especially for Ensemble Offspring by the esteemed Australian composer Bozidar Kos. Kos is one of a small handful of Australian composers to follow the spectral techniques introduced by Grisey and Murail. The program also features a world premiere by the recently returned Australian composer Christopher Tonkin, a graduate of the famous IRCAM institute in Paris and UC San Diego. Given the spectral movements' vast influence in contemporary music world wide, the seminal repertoire by Murail and Grisey is seldom heard in Australia. Ensemble Offspring's 'Thirteen Colours' is a rare opportunity to hear this unique and engaging music.Saturday 30th May, 2009, 8.00pmSydney Conservatorium of MusicMacquarie Street, Tickets: $30/$20Bookings 02 8256 222 or ONLINEFor program details and touring dates, please see www.ensembleoffspring.com
ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING STARTS SYDNEY SEASON WITH SOUND SPECTRUM.
On Saturday 30th May, Ensemble Offspring will be performing 'Treize couleurs du soleil couchant' by the French composer Tristan Murail at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Macquarie St at 8pm.
'Treize colours du soleil couchant' (Thirteen Colours) is a beautiful sonic metaphor for the setting sun. Like watching a sunset, the work imperceptibly draws the listener through slowly transforming colours of seemingly infinite depth and subtlety. Murail, like Messiaen and Debussy before him, is part of a legacy of French music that displays a refined sensibility for colour. Together with compatriot Gérard Grisey (whose work 'Talea' is featured in the concert), he is credited with establishing an entirely new school of composition called 'spectral music'. Just as light can be broken into a spectrum of colours, so too a rich sound can be broken into a kaleidoscope of microscopic frequencies.
Continuing the theme of light is 'Fatamorgana' ('mirage' or 'optical illusion') written especially for Ensemble Offspring by the esteemed Australian composer Bozidar Kos. Kos is one of a small handful of Australian composers to follow the spectral techniques introduced by Grisey and Murail. The program also features a world premiere by the recently returned Australian composer Christopher Tonkin, a graduate of the famous IRCAM institute in Paris and UC San Diego. Given the spectral movements' vast influence in contemporary music world wide, the seminal repertoire by Murail and Grisey is seldom heard in Australia. Ensemble Offspring's 'Thirteen Colours' is a rare opportunity to hear this unique and engaging music.
Saturday 30th May, 2009, 8.00pmSydney Conservatorium of MusicMacquarie Street, Tickets: $30/$20Bookings 02 8256 222 or ONLINE
For program details and touring dates, please see www.ensembleoffspring.com
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