Hold onto your seats pals, because we're trying something new! Introducing the first edition of Impro Nights, where we gather some of the coolest, most interesting explorative improvisers in Sydney, put them together and see what amazing places they take us! You'll hear a few different combinations of musicians, all making it up together. What could possibly happen? Where might they go? What will they discover? Will you be there for the ride?
Doors open 7:30pm
Music from 8pm
The musicians:
Jack Stoneham
Jack Stoneham is an improvising saxophonist. He is mainly interested in exploring rhythm as a means of having a reference point for improvised sounds placed in time. He attempts to combine this with a language developed from exploiting the saxophone’s natural strengths and an interest in intervallic relationships and what they suggest to the listener.
Alon Ilsar
Alon Ilsar is a drummer, improviser, composer and instrument designer. He is the co-designer of a new gestural instrument for electronic percussionists, the AirSticks, which he has played at Sydney Festival, Sydney’s Vivid Festival, on Triple J’s Like a Version and at NYC’s MET Museum, with projects such as Trigger Happy ‘Visualised’, The Hour, The Sticks, Tuka (from Thundamentals), Sandy Evans’ ‘Ahimsa’ and ‘Rockpool,’ Ellen Kirkwood’s ‘[A]part‘, Kirin J Callinan, Kind of Silence (UK) and Cephalon (US). He has played drums in Belvoir Theatre’s ‘Keating! the Musical,’ Sydney Theatre Company’s ‘Mojo,’ Meow Meow with the London Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Western Australia Symphony Orchestras, Stephanie Lake’s ‘Manifesto,’ Alan Cumming, Jake Shears, Eddie Perfect, Gauche, Darth Vegas and Ground Patrol.
‘Attending Alon Ilsar’s performance this time was ever more like peeking around the corner of the time-space continuum and glimpsing the future’ (John Shand - Sydney Morning Herald)
Elizabeth Jigalin
Elizabeth Jigalin is a composer/sound artist/performer. In her music, Elizabeth is drawn to hyper-miniature forms, pianos, piano mutants, ears, lists, collaboration, instrument building, playfulness, the colour red, objects, DIY electronics and creating music outside the usual order of things (often with her collective ‘the music box project’).
Clayton Thomas
Clayton Thomas is a double bassist and organiser who improvises as an act of social connectivity. Music is a metaphor, ebbing out in waves from the spontaneous sonic moment of shared risk, to the collective social experience of shared trust.
Ellen Kirkwood
Ellen Kirkwood is a trumpeter and composer whose improvisation practice explores the sounds of her horn played “improperly,” as well as a small but growing collection of percussive objects, and her own voice. Being present, uninhibited, aware, giving and imaginative, are her aims when improvising exploratively. Ellen is a member of Splinter Orchestra and S.I.C.K.O.
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Suggested donation for entry: $10-$20 (or more if you like!) Cash preferred.
Address: BrandX Tempe Jets Music and Arts Space, Holbeach Ave, Tempe, Gadigal Country
Jetsets is a weekly series on Tuesday nights, run by artist volunteers. We only take a very small amount of the door sales - the rest goes to the artists
We recommend you dress warm because our big old sports club space is hard to heat