MUSIC NEWS: Darebin Arts Centre Announce Our Carlson + Hextape Show for Music for the Stages
Our Carlson and Hextape join the Music for the Stages series at Darebin Arts Centre alongside Liquid Architecture and Songlines
After launching with Chinese-Australian composers, Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 and Sui Zhen on the eve of the Lunar New in February, Darebin Arts Centre is pleased to announce the final show as part of their series Music for the Stages, presented by On The Road Again, Darebin Arts and Triple R. On Saturday 27 June, producer and classically trained musician Hextape will take to the stage alongside musician and a people's poet Our Carlson.
Having featured events over the years including Speak Percussion, Melbourne International Jazz Fest, Mallrat, and Atlanta Eke, this program celebrates the theatricality of the space with four seated shows with lineups from some of Naarm's best tastemakers and curators; experimental and interdisciplinary organisation Liquid Architecture, Songlines that aim to advocate as a collective voice for greater recognition of contemporary Aboriginal Music.
Next up in the program, on Wednesday 24 April vocalist and Indonesian musician Rully Shabara and Peruvian experimental Ale Hop will present a night to sound out new discourses in the audible world, and May’s event Songlines are set to feature Pioneering Aboriginal Reggae Bart Willoughby and soulful singer Canisha with floral art from Alchemy Orange.
Liquid Architecture presents Rully Shabara (Indonesia) and Ale Hop (Peru)
Wednesday 24 April
The Xhabarabot Voice Machines, led by Rully Shabara (one-half of seminal Indonesian experimental band Senyawa) in collaboration with Australian artists Brian Fuata, Abby Sunborne and Jocelyn Tribe, will present an evening of improvisation showcasing the diverse application of AI Voice Machines. This project will play with varied methods, styles, and instruments to delve into the potential of these new technologies. This ensemble work explores artistic possibilities inherent in the intersection of new technologies and musical expression.
Also performing on the night is internationally renowned Peruvian artist Ale Hop. Ale is an artist, researcher, and experimental instrumentalist based in Berlin. Her music blends electronic and electroacoustic elements, incorporating noise, pop, avant-garde, and ambient influences. Using extended techniques for electric guitar and real-time sampling devices, she crafts performances marked by physical intensity, layered distortion, and captivating atmospheres.
Songlines Aboriginal Music presents Bart Willoughby and Canisha
Featuring floral installations from Alchemy Orange
Sunday 19 May
This special show will see Darebin Arts Centre graced with the presence of pioneering Aboriginal Reggae artist Bart Willoughby alongside soulful singer Canisha and her band. The founding member of “No Fixed Address”, Willoughby is said to be the tip of the spear in the modern indigenous Song-line. Presented in collaboration with Songlines Aboriginal Music, this special show will also feature stage design by Alchemy Orange, a botanical design studio established by Yorta Yorta woman Shahn Stewart.
Our Carlson and Hextape
Thursday 27 June
The final show of the series on Thursday 27 June, Hextape and Our Carlson, centres accessibility in performance and production and weaves storytelling, cello, bass-heavy tracks, and sonic and visual portrayals together. They move through our world of loud and quiet, town cryer, and quiet revolutionary, holding on to analog visuals in an increasingly tech world. Hextape and Our Carlson amplify their punk ethos in a fight against the top end of town that they may win. During this musical conversation, they’ll explore Hextape’s take on Our Carlson tracks, and vice versa. Feel the rush of a solo MRI rave, as a thespian narrates across a magnificent stage, strings whirling and puppets furling, during one night to never forget at the Darebin Arts Centre.
Victoria has a strong network of Performing Arts Centres (the VAPAC network) that present a broad range of work from theatre, dance, cabaret, circus, comedy, live music, and more. Music for the Stages as part of On The Road Again, a Victorian Government initiative delivered by Music Victoria to support the return of live music events across the state, with a focus on contemporary music acts, programmed and working with local curators.
Don’t miss these opportunities to witness these one off experiences at Darebin Arts Centre in 2024.
Music for the Stages at Darebin Arts Centre
Presented by On The Road Again, Darebin Arts and Triple R
St Georges Rd)
Preston VIC 3072
Wednesday 24 April
Liquid Architecture
Rully Shabara + Ale Hop
Time: 7:30pm
Sunday 19 May
Songlines Aboriginal Music
Bart Willoughby and Canisha
Time: 5pm
Thursday 27 June
Our Carlson and Hextape
Time: 7:30pm
Tickets via the Darebin Arts Website
Tickets
General Admission - $35+BF
Concession - $25+ BF
Blaktix - $20
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