- Wednesday 5 December
The Gladstone Hotel, Dulwich Hill
The Living Room Theatre in association with Kawai presents
On the Telephone is the debut duo of Uma Volkmer (trumpet) and Naoko Uemoto (saxophone). They are interested in crafting heartfelt sounds that parallel the ways in which they experience cloud gazing — by stretching out the evolution of ideas, moulding textural landscapes and finding abstraction. Their music serves as a gentle invitation for collective listening and feeling.
Artists: Uma Volkmer, Gabriella Hill and Naoko Uemoto
Naoko finds meaning in the communities of care and curiosity created by exploratory art practices. Her projects are guided by ongoing thoughts around playfulness, liveness in electronic music, and the role of place to inform listening. This thinking has extended into her involvement in programming work for KickstART Festival and the Walyalup Weekend of Improvised Music (WWIM).
Uma Volkmer is a musician and artist working on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia.Her practice is experiment driven with a focus on collaboration, connectivity and an explorative dialogue between visual and sonic forms. Most recently, Uma has been exploring texture, abstraction and materiality within her creative practice and as a trumpet player. Since being introduced to Sydney’s exploratory scene through Splinter Orchestra in 2023 Uma’s love of improvisation has grown and in February 2024 she released debut album Burst with band Bad Photography (Jim Denley, Alex Tucker). She is currently in her fourth year of studying a Bachelor of Music Composition.
Gabriella Hill is a Sydney/Eora based saxophonist, clarinetist, improviser and composer, currently in her 3rd year of studying jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium. Current ensembles/projects include Double Trouble (with Aidan Wong, Alex Tucker, Daniel Raymond), Hayley Chan Trio (with Uma Volkmer, Hayley Chan), Mosaic Jazz Collective (as guest artist), JAG (with Alex Tucker, Jacques Emery), Splinter Orchestra.
