Different Voices #3: Tunings of Place

For the third instalment of Different Voices, curator-performers Daniel Raymond and Alex Tucker present two ensembles whose work explores sound as landscape, memory, and discovery.

Launching their second album, Mallee, the collaborative project of Freya Schack-Arnott and Ben Ward performs music for cello, double bass, nyckelharpa and synthesised sound. Drawing on site-specific improvisations in Menindee, Cobar and Wilcannia, their work investigates radical tuning systems, spectral resonance and richly textured sonic environments, blurring the boundaries between acoustic and electronic sound.

Freya Schack-Arnott – cello, nyckelharpa
Ben Ward – double bass, synthesised sound

Joining them is The Cloud of Unknowing, featuring Jim Denley, Sam Dobson and Alex Tucker. Inspired by improvisation’s embrace of uncertainty, the trio navigates a continually shifting musical terrain where saxophone, bass, percussion and found objects converge in spontaneous acts of listening and invention.

Together, these artists present a program of adventurous contemporary music that is grounded in place yet open to the unknown; finding new voices in resonance, texture and the spaces between certainty and mystery.

“when I say darkness, I mean a lacking of knowing: as all things that thou knowest not, or hast forgotten, is dark to thee… And for this reason it is called, not a cloud of the air, but a cloud of unknowing…”

Jim Denley – alto saxophone
Sam Dobson – double bass
Alex Tucker – drums

Doors: 7:00pm
Music: 7:30pm
Tickets: $25/$15

“We are not a home for creativity. We are a home for art that won’t stay quiet.”