Scream Star by Speak Percussion

Arts House

Cost

Pay if you can $35
Standard $20
BLAKTIX $10
A small transaction fee will be charged per order.

Booking required

When

18 - 21 August 2022
Thursday 18 – Sunday 21 August, 2022
Thu – Sat, 7.30pm
Sun, 5pm

Duration
90 mins with a 20 min interval

2022-08-18 2022-08-21 Australia/Melbourne Scream Star by Speak Percussion 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne VIC, Australia Arts House artshouse@melbourne.vic.gov.au

Where

521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne VIC, Australia
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Performing Arts

Music and Sound

Both the background and the golden bars of the marimba are radiated by a beautiful pinkish magenta. Three musicians stand behind an instrument: on the left, a white man with a silver wave of hair and finely shaped goatee; in the middle a white man with dark brown hair, short cut beard and black circular rimmed glasses; and on the left a white long brown haired woman with dangling circular earrings. All three stare transfixed at three fluorescent ping pong balls either descending or ascending, above the instrument below. They each wear clothes for a party or a talent contest: the man on the left sports a confetti golden jacket; the woman on the right a shiny golden sleeveless dress. Together they flank the man wearing a jade regal green formal jacket.

Three daring collisions of sound and screen, mashed-up projection and percussion.

Speak Percussion commissions three wunderkind composers to fuse screen and sound, projection and percussion, rhythm and light into a remarkable live performance event.

From canned laughter to green screens, foley artists to house bands, this trio of unexpected works digs deep into the visual unconscious shared by anyone raised on a diet of TV and film.

Matthew Shlomowitz and Laura Spark play with the notion of the live audience and onstage talent, by taking televised crowd reactions, giving them entirely new context and questioning the professional/amateur divide.

Johannes Kreidler exploits the green screen to distinctly animate and dislocate the performative gesture, in which space and time are split apart and reassembled in head-spinning ways.

Jessie Marino draws on a dazzling number of screens, blinds, lights and haze to produce a kaleidoscopic riot of light and sound.

Playful and wildly imaginative, full of drama and delirium, Scream Star is proof that Speak Percussion sits at the leading edge of sonic experimentation in Australia today.

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