Australian Art Orchestra in Newport, Victoria, Australia | Orchestra
Australian Art Orchestra
Locality: Newport, Victoria, Australia
Address: The Substation, 1 Market St 3015 Newport, VIC, Australia
Website: http://www.aao.com.au
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24.01.2022 Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger Than Space is available now! This is evocative, visceral, and lyrical music, performed by an ensemble of incredible musicians and composed by some of Australia's most fascinating artists. The AAO would like to thank Andrea Keller, Tilman Robinson, Peter Knight, Lizzy Welsh, Georgie Darvidis, Aviva Endean, James Macaulay, Jacques Emery, Simon Barker, Joe Talia and Jem Savage for their creative brilliance as well as our generous supporters in making such a beautiful album. Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger Than Space was premiered in 2018 in response to the 100-year commemoration of Remembrance Day. We're proud to release today, 11 November 2020, the concert program as a Digital Download and limited edition CD on Bandcamp.
24.01.2022 The Mini Masterclass Series features musicians from our pool of amazing AAO collaborators and digs deep into specific musical and technical topics, providing insight and inspiration to musicians with similar interests or practices. In Episode Eight, innovative percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson shares insights into her practice with found objects. Watch the full video on our Youtube channel!
21.01.2022 Congratulations to Daniel Wilfred and David Wilfred, recipients of the Northern Territory Luminary Award at the Art Music Awards 2020! Daniel and David are important cultural leaders in their community in South East Arnhem Land and have been central members of the Australian Art Orchestra for well over a decade; we're thrilled to see them recognised and celebrated for their 'cultural leadership and sustained creative contributions within Australia and beyond'. Thanks to APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre for hosting a great online event and congratulations to all winners last night - it's exciting to be part of such a rich and diverse community of fantastic artists across Australia!
21.01.2022 Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger Than Space is available from Armistice Day, 11 November on AAO Recordings. Featuring the brilliant composers Peter Knight, Andrea Keller and Tilman Robinson alongside an incredible lineup of Australian musicians, this suite of three evocative and lyrical works respond to intimate accounts of lives remembered in fine-grain detail away from the thrust of battle. Pre-order for digital download and limited edition CD now on Bandcamp.
20.01.2022 Have a coffee with the AAO! Yarns is intended as a simple means to reach out in an informal way to both introduce yourself and hear more about the AAO. Join us on Monday 12 October.
19.01.2022 It is with great pleasure that we announce the first of a series of exciting new releases by the Australian Art Orchestra. Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger Than Space features the brilliant Australian composers Peter Knight, Andrea Keller and Tilman Robinson and will be released on our revamped label, AAO Recordings as part of our Composer Series. Pre-orders for digital and limited edition CD now available via or Bandcamp page.
19.01.2022 We are thrilled to announce Helen Svoboda as the next AAO Associate Artist, as part of our Pathfinders - Music Leadership Program. Born of Finnish/Australian heritage, Helen Svoboda is a double-bassist, vocalist, composer, improviser and nature-enthusiast. Driven by the spontaneity of improvisation and her love of exciting creative environments, Helen has developed a distinctive sound across many different musical avenues. Supported by The Ian Potter Foundation, the Pathfin...ders program is designed to provide an opportunity to gain an insight into what is required to run a successful music ensemble, and to gain experience and skills to prepare the Associate Artist for future artistic leadership roles. Welcome to the team, Helen!
18.01.2022 Our associate artist Reuben Lewis features on the first episode the Quiet Listening Series with his world premiere solo work 'The House is Empty'. Curated by The SUBSTATION, Room40 and AAO artistic director Peter Knight with beautiful narration by Jo Lloyd .... When you attend a show at The SUBSTATION, there are a series of actions taken to shift your focus and ready you for the work you are about to see. Taking in the building on arrival, reading a guide in the foyer, and entering a gallery or event space - these rituals are designed to prepare you. We are interested in how this experience can best be delivered to you online, to provide a moment of respite and contemplation during what continues to be a challenging time. QUIET LISTENING will arrive every Friday morning in the form of new voice and sound works. Each week, dance artist Jo Lloyd will begin each recording with a spoken reflection to prepare you to relax, rest and listen. . Listen now: https://bit.ly/33QSNth Subscribe to receive each episode: https://bit.ly/3mv707y
18.01.2022 We are so excited to hear material from our Solo Series in the next world premiere featured in week 7 of LISTENING. Homeostasis is a remix by Tilman Robinson of a solo improvisation recorded by Mindy Meng Wang Music for the Australian Art Orchestra Solo Series (2019) This piece was made in the final throes of Melbourne’s second wave COVID lockdown (in fact, the news restrictions were lifting as I was completing the mastering). Unable to enter my studio for 3 months, it was m...ade in a home shared office space surrounded by other people and synthesisers - a far cry from how I would usually make introspective work of this nature. Working with Mindy’s guzheng was a rare treat in an otherwise mundane time. Tilman Robinson, 27 October 2020 Tilman’s remix feels to me like I’m falling into a spiritual world of my own thoughts... watching glooming tracks in the sky as time passes on a winter evening and the extension of the universe from above." Mindy Meng Wang, 27 October 2020 Curated by The SUBSTATION, Room40 and Australian Art Orchestra, LISTENING arrives every Friday morning in the form of new voice and sound works. Each week, dance artist Jo Lloyd begins the recording with a spoken reflection to prepare you to relax, rest and listen.
17.01.2022 Congratulations to our next Associate Artist Helen Svoboda for taking out this year's Jazz Freedman Fellowship Award! We're so excited to welcome you to the team and can't wait to see your project 'The Odd Bunch' with film-maker Angus Kirby take shape.
16.01.2022 We are proud to announce the long- awaited release of im/modesty, a live collaboration with the Bangladeshi-Australian sound artist Shoeb Ahmad, through UK based label Flaming Pines as part of the AAO Recordings - Praxis Series. A composition inspired by her personal teenage experiences, Shoeb Ahmad - Sia in her daily life - explores the blooming of one’s inner sexuality, meditations on intimacy and exploration of personal relationships in im/modesty. im/modesty is a univers...al story, says Sia. It’s about being able to investigate that intersect between culture and sexuality and how we learn through these experiences. Pre-order for digital download and limited edition CD now on Bandcamp. Congratulations Sia!
15.01.2022 A morning for SOFT LISTENING. Our Artistic Director Peter Knight and electronic artist Fia Fiell feature on the next episode of the Listening Series with their world premiere, 'Eunoia'. Eunoia - (rhetoric) Goodwill towards an audience, either perceived or real; the perception that the speaker has the audience's interest at heart. ... Curated by The SUBSTATION, Room40 and Australian Art Orchestra, LISTENING arrives every Friday morning in the form of new voice and sound works. Each week, dance artist Jo Lloyd begins the recording with a spoken reflection to prepare you to relax, rest and listen. Subscribe to receive each episode: https://bit.ly/3mv707y
10.01.2022 Wonderful to hear a snippet of ever-inspiring Tariro Mavondo's poetry from the AAO online premiere of ‘Closed Beginnings’ on ABC Radio National's The Stage Show. A fascinating conversation with Tariro that sheds light on her multifaceted artistic career and incredible work as co-artistic director of Western Edge Youth Arts.
10.01.2022 Chamber Made's fantastic Hi-Viz Practice Exchange 2020 is going online. This free one-day event for women and non-binary artists working at the intersections of performance, sound and music is on Thursday 22 October. With an incredible list of artists including Tariro Mavondo, Janet Cardiff, Sui Zhen, Aviva Endean, Cobie Orger, Roslyn Oades and more, it's a unique chance to gather, connect, recharge and reflect on practice.... Book here: https://bit.ly/3mkOfn6
05.01.2022 We're very happy to be amongst a group of organisations who will be receiving multiyear funding from the City of Melbourne from 2021 onwards, including Speak Percussion, Songlines Aboriginal Music Corporation, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV), Liquid Architecture, Ilbijerri Theatre Company, CHUNKY MOVE, La Mama Theatre, African Music and Cultural Festival and many other equally awesome and resilient arts organisations. Congratulations to you all, thanks to Arts Centre Melbourne for supporting our Meeting Points Series and thanks to the City of Melbourne for supporting us with the Arts and Creative Investment Partnership grant!
05.01.2022 Great to see a mention in The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music of our upcoming co-release with Shoeb Ahmad on Flaming Pines! Subscribe to our Bandcamp page for updates on these exciting new releases.
05.01.2022 Our former associate artist Aviva Endean and incredible sound artist Matthias Schack-Arnott are delighted to present their world premiere of 'Free Dive' for this weeks instalment of LISTENING. Working apart to bring this work together, the duo both contributed various electronics and mixing efforts to the work, with recordings of bass clarinet provided by Aviva and percussion from Matthias. Curated by The SUBSTATION, Room40 and Australian Art Orchestra, LISTENING arrives eve...ry Friday morning in the form of new voice and sound works. Each week, dance artist Jo Lloyd begins the recording with a spoken reflection to prepare you to relax, rest and listen. Subscribe to receive each episode: https://bit.ly/3mv707y
05.01.2022 im/modesty is now available through Flaming Pines as part of the AAO Recordings - Praxis Series! Get lost in a swirl of dream pop and storytelling with our incredible live collaboration with the Bangladeshi-Australian sound artist Shoeb Ahmad. Originally developed as a multi-speaker installation during a residency in Kerala, Southern India in 2016, im/modesty was reworked into a 60 minute premiere as part of the Meeting Points series, beautifully recorded by Jem Savage and pe...rformed by an ensemble of incredible musicians including Peter Knight, Sunny Kim, Tilman Robinson, Aviva Endean and Maria Moles. The AAO would like to thank all the inspiring artists as well as our generous supporters in making such an inspriring album. Digital download and limited edition CDs available on Bandcamp.
03.01.2022 We’re immensely proud to share, during NAIDOC Week, that the lifting of restrictions in Victoria will allow us to host Yolngu song men Daniel Wilfred and David Wilfred from Ngukurr, NT, at our Creative Music Intensive again this December. For 8 days, they’ll be sharing Yolngu songs and culture with an incredible cohort of talented musicians from all over Australia, including Andrew Doo, Ashley Ballat, Bhairavi Raman, Claire Cross, David Moran, Eitan Ritz, Emily Bennett, Flor...a Carbo, Imogen Cygler, Iran Sanadzadeh, Matthew Horsley, Max Teakle, Merinda Dias-Jayasinha, Nanthesh Sivarajah, Nick Yates, Niran Dasika and Theo Carbo. Daniel and David were awarded earlier this year with the NT Luminary Award during the 2020 Art Music Awards for their cultural leadership and sustained creative contributions in Australia and beyond, including their roles at the Creative Music Intensive. Watch Daniel Wilfred’s incredible 14-min documentary, Djuwalpada, to see Daniel and David at the Creative Music Intensive in 2018.
03.01.2022 Apply now for Ensemble Offspring's fantastic Hatched Academy Composer Summer School! Led by Artistic Director, Claire Edwardes and featuring composer Melody Eötvös, this five-day intensive program will be held in Sydney from 13-17 December 2021 and is designed to provide practical experience to the next generation of innovative young performers and composers from around Australia. Emerging composers from around Australia are encouraged to apply. Applications close midnight ...Monday 12 October 2020. Be sure to also like their page to stay up to date with all things Ensemble Offspring!
01.01.2022 The AAO will partner with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in presenting Paul Grabowsky’s new work, WATA, at Hamer Hall next February. WATA will feature Yolngu songmen and long-time AAO collaborators, Daniel Wilfred and David Wilfred, and members of the MSO and AAO. Paul Grabowsky AO is the MSO’s 2021 Composer in Residence, and Founder of the Australian Art Orchestra. We’re excited to work with Paul again in this setting!
