The Phonetic Orchestra 'Silent Towns' 24-hour Livestream

The Phonetic Orchestra brings together musicians from such diverse backgrounds as Contemporary Classical music, Electroacoustic music and Experimental improvisation to create work that embraces site-specificity, extreme durational performances, and the fluid borders between composition and improvisation, the individual and the collective.

In ‘Silent Towns’, the Phonetic Orchestra takes the livestreamed performance as a potential site for radical research and experimentation, where new forms of presentation can be conceptualised, and ideas around community, assembly, ritual, and ‘liveness’ in performance can be challenged and redefined.

The livestream can be accessed here: https://www.thephoneticorchestra.com/silent-towns.html

The Phonetic Orchestra: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Jenny Barnes, voice, texts Andy Butler, piano, harmonium Callum G’Froerer, trumpets Reuben Lewis, trumpets, electronics Michael McNab, percussion, objects

York, Western Australia, Australia Simon Charles, electronics

Berlin, Germany Jonathan Heilbron, bass, organs Joseph Houston, piano Rebecca Lane, flutes Brett Thompson, guitar, objects

‘Silent Towns’ is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and the City of Melbourne.

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Source: https://www.emus.space/archive/2020/8/1/the-phonetic-orchestra-silent-towns-24-hour-livestream