We’ve teamed up again with Dual Plover to present the second round of Up close and personal, a series of physically distanced contemporary sound events like you’ve never seen before.
Each three hour program will feature two musical acts, each playing for one and a half hours with a collaborative segue at the midway point. Entry will be staggered with a rotating audience experiencing a unique 20-minute experience only 1.5 metres away from some of Australia’s most innovative musicians. Performers include Eric Avery, Graham King, Shoeb Ahmad, Nicola Morton, Matt Earle, Loose-y Crunché, Papaphilia, Jim Denley, Monica Brooks, Laura Altman, Garry Bradbury and Phantom Chips.
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Tickets
Free, booking required – maximum of 2 tickets per person.
All ages welcome.
Each ticket gives you access to an intimate 20-minute experience. Due to capacity and the rotating nature of the audience, there may be wait times when you arrive.
Your confirmed ticket time slot can not be swapped.
If you are no longer able to attend the performance, please get in touch with us by emailing reception@mca.com.au, so that we can offer your spot to someone else.
Tickets for each event will be released one week prior.
About the performers
Jim Denley: 7 May, 5.30–7pm
Jim Denley’s improvisations have an emphasis on spontaneity & site-specificity. He sees no clear distinctions between his roles as instrumentalist, improviser and composer. He is interested in what his music instinct might learn from language. From 1989 to 2003, he worked with the text/music group Machine for Making Sense(Amanda Stewart, Stevie Wishart, Rik Rue and Chris Mann). Jim has recently formed 180º with Amanda Stewart and Nick Ashwood to continue this pursuit of text with music. They have just released their first recording, Submental. He is currently undertaking PhD research at the Department of Art, Design and Architecture at UNSW.
Monica Brooks: 7 May, 5.30–7pm
Monica Brooks has modelled sound works, compositions, and improvisations from piano, computer, field recordings, glasses, radio, and accordion. Long-term projects have toured nationally and internationally, including Great Waitress with legends Laura Altman & Magda Mayas; West Head Project, with Dale Gorfinkel, Anthony Magen & Jim Denley, and Women’s Auxiliary Choir with Sonia Z, Loni Cooper, and Ces Hotbake. Monica also fronts the eight-piece ensemble, Electronic Resonance Korps, developing works for multiple mono computer performance.
Laura Altman: 7 May, 6.45–8.30pm
Laura Altman is a clarinettist, improviser and composer. A long-standing member of Splinter Orchestra and Prophets, Laura has been an important voice in the Sydney improvised and exploratory music scene for more than a decade. Her current projects include solo clarinet + tapes + feedback, duos with Low Flung (Couch), Monica Brooks, Melanie Herbert and Nick Ashwood, folk-jazz-chamber ensemble, Chaika, and Prophets’ side-project, BB+CAM. She co-hosts a radio show, Listening Space on Eastside FM, and co-founded the Sydney exploratory music calendar emus.