Chris E Chen + Mark Cauvin: UTOPIA
Doors — 7:30pm
8pm — Chris E Chen
9pm — Mark Cauvin: UTOPIA
Tickets: $25 full / $15 concession. Available on the door only — cash or EFT.
Stadium Rockdale, Level 1, 5 Tramway Arcade, Rockdale
Find the “Massage” sign, go upstairs, and take the door on the left.
Please note: the venue is accessible by stairs only. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Mark Cauvin: UTOPIA
Commissioned by ART ZOYD STUDIOS and developed during a recent residency there in France, with support from Create NSW, UTOPIA brings together double bass, electronics and gesture. Bowed textures and transformed sound unfold through composition and improvisation.
Mark Cauvin is an avant-garde double bass and electronics musician who has made a significant contribution to the contemporary double bass. He is skilled in composition, interpretation, and improvisation, drawing inspiration from the experimental music explorers of the 1950s to 1970s. Mark has performed and recorded with ensembles Chamber Made Opera and Decibel Ensemble and cross platformed with choreographer Hellen Sky, performance maker Nikki Heywood and Visual Artist Jody Graham and toured extensively throughout Australia.
Photograph: @gerardrouy — UTOPIA live at la malterie, Lille, France.
Chris E Chen
Chris E Chen is making her own weird and sad version of ‘girl-in-her-bedroom’ music, featuring her own voice and a variety of electronic echoes, ring mod resonances, bleeps and bloops.
When not making bleeps and bloops, Chris writes concert music and creative fiction.