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Berlin
January 23
Brisbane
July 14
Brisbane
July 22
Berlin
September 22 and 23
Norway 2001
Oslo Bergen Stavanger Trondheim
October
Melbourne Festival
October 20, 21, 22 and 23
Brisbane Powerhouse
November 16, 17 and 18
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Our 2001 programme highlights continuing developments
in the performance practice of the ELISION Ensemble.
DARK MATTER, a major international co-production with Norway's Cikada Ensemble,
takes the form of an 80-minute electro-acoustic work interacting
with an architectural installation by visual artist Per Inge BJØRLO.
DARK MATTER is the latest creative outcome of ELISION's continuing relationship
with composer Richard BARRETT and further develops the ensemble's commitment
to investigations into site-specific installation work. The
Australian premiere takes place in The Brisbane Powerhouse, one of
Australia's newest and most important developments in cultural
infrastructure.
Yuè Lìng Jié, a Chinese ritual-street opera by composer Liza LIM and
librettist Beth YAHP has a second season at the Melbourne Festival in
October 2001. Yuè Lìng Jié will also be touring internationally to major
theatres in Europe and Japan in 2002. The opera continues ELISION's
contemporary engagement with South-East Asian art-forms.
A new element in ELISION's programming is ONE × 2.
In each year a commissioned
work will be presented twice in the same event accompanied by a related
composition and a panel discussion. In 2001 the work is
Via Ultima by Jean-Baptiste DEVILLERS, scored for soprano
and twelve instrumentalists commissioned through the Hors Villa Medicis.
The intention
of this programme is to offer an audience a deeper relationship
with a brand new work by focusing perception through repeated hearing and
public discussion.
A concert with conductor Pierre-André VALADE for the Queensland Biennial Festival of Music
on July 22nd includes Australian premieres of works by
Swiss and French composers, René WOHLHAUSER, Michaël JARRELL and
Pascal DUSAPIN as well as a work written specifically for ELISION
by the British composer Michael VAUGHAN.
ELISION is continuing to develop a flexible performance practice whereby the
ensemble can move from cross-artform projects with visual artists to
concerthall programmes with a conductor; from improvisation and the use of
electronic manipulation to the presentation of new possibilities within the
operatic tradition; and from the investigation of new and radical
instrumental techniques to notions of cultural hybridity. All of this is an
exploration of what a `new music ensemble´ can be within Australia at this
point in time.
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