Sunday August 6th, 2023

Nights at Tempe presents:

BANANA
&
VOLCHA

Doors 7pm, 7.30pm Music
$15 Concession, $20 full, or whatever you can/are willing to offer - all to the artists.
BYO
Holbeach Ave. Tempe

We acknowledge that this event is taking place on the unceded land of the Gadigal and Wangal peoples, of the Eora Nation.

* * * * Who is playing? * * * *

BANANA (ALEXANDRA SPENCE & MP HOPKINS)

Using foil, flutes, tuning forks, tones, tapes, tiny bananas, stones, mouths + more, Banana explore the spatial and sculptural elements of a practice in experimental sound.

In 2020 they presented an online video performance for Make It Up Club in Melbourne, and a release with Greek record label More Mars, receiving a Bandcamp Best Experimental Music recommendation, June 2021. They have performed and exhibited work together as part of Score club at Firstdraft Gallery and Frontyard; the Unsettling Scores publication with Liquid Architecture and Monash Museum of Art; Nights at Tempe performance series; and SoundOut Festival, Canberra.

During the Sydney lockdown '21 they undertook a series of night walks - exploring/learning/forgetting/remembering public spaces, which was documented through an expanded field recording and writing process. Transcriptions of their night walks feature in Liquid Architecture’s Disclaimer journal https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/night-walks-an-index

Alex and MP also co-founded and curate the successful Sydney-based experimental music & sound series Humming Grotto.

VOLCHA (HAYLEY CHAN & UMA VOLKMER)

Hayley Chan (drums/percussion) and Uma Volkmer (electronics, trumpet) study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music together and share an interest in live improvised and electronic music. They first connected at the SIMA Young Women's Jazz Workshop in 2022 and began to create both jazz and electroacoustic music together. They now continue to produce experiment driven, improvised music together in their new project ‘volcha’. Exploring unconventional sounds and extended techniques to create texturally-informed sonic biomes.

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