The Phonetic Orchestra brings together musicians from such diverse backgrounds as Contemporary Classical music, Electroacoustic music and Experimental improvisation to create work that embraces site-specificity, extreme durational performances, and the fluid borders between composition and improvisation, the individual and the collective.

In 'Silent Towns', the Phonetic Orchestra takes the livestreamed performance as a potential site for radical research and experimentation, where new forms of presentation can be conceptualised, and ideas around community, assembly, ritual, and ‘liveness’ in performance can be challenged and redefined.

The livestream can be accessed here: https://www.thephoneticorchestra.com/silent-towns.html

The Phonetic Orchestra:
~Melbourne, Victoria, Australia~
Jenny Barnes, voice, texts
Andy Butler, piano, harmonium
Callum G'Froerer, trumpets
Reuben Lewis, trumpets, electronics
Michael McNab, percussion, objects

~York, Western Australia, Australia~
Simon Charles, electronics

~Berlin, Germany~
Jonathan Heilbron, bass, organs
Joseph Houston, piano
Rebecca Lane, flutes
Brett Thompson, guitar, objects

'Silent Towns' is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and the City of Melbourne.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/events/274131477019468/