Listening Session no.3

Listening Session no.3 is the 3rd performance in this series of concerts. It's a performance that focusses on really listening, an absolutely essential part of creating music in the moment. 4 musicians will create 90 minutes of new music by listening deeply to each other while improvising over a drone. The audience is invited to also listen deeply in the same way. In fact what is happening is that the audience has been invited to witness the creative process of building a new piece of music in this 'live' collaborative way. Nothing will have been written or rehearsed beforehand. Nothing will have been discussed about the unfolding music except to choose the pitch of the drone that will be sounding underneath the musicians for the full 90 minutes.

The musicians involved are all experienced improvisors and come with variety of musical experiences and training. It is as though the audience has been invited into the collective musical mind of this group of musicians for the duration of the collective improvisation. It is this 'Process' of creating the music rather than the 'Product' of the completed composition that takes precedence.

The 4 musicians are: Jethro Williams (Bansuri - Indian flute), Linsey Pollak (winds), Philip Griffin (plucked strings) and Sue Moxon (handpans)

Philip Griffin (Oud, Laouto, electric bass, ukulele, rabab, to name a few) is a musician, arranger and composer working across a wide range of styles. He has written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company; been a Young Artist for Opera Australia; directed the Fire Event Choir at Woodford Festival; played with Balkan bands including Makedonski Bop, Ssassa, Xenos and The Balkanics; toured and recorded with Ross Daly, Linsey Pollak, Frankie Armstrong and many others; created operatic roles in new opera performances; and played plucked strings with period instrument groups in New Zealand and Australia. 

Sue Moxon is a classically trained composer, multi-instrumentalist and teacher. Her music has a great deal of diversity which allows her to work on many different projects from film and multimedia productions to educational music for instrumental groups and soloists.Sue has composed for short films such as Die Violine [Cannes Film Festival - short film section 2014]. Influenced by many forms including ambient, world music, minimalism, classical and jazz styles and found inspiration through life experiences as well as various art forms. Sue performs on various instruments including Hang and Handpan, Piano, Cello and Classical-style Guitar.

Jethro Williams makes up one half of the duo "Sacred Earth" For the last two decades, Jethro has been exploring the deeper dimensions of spiritual sound through the vehicle of the traditional Flutes. Bansuri, Shakuatchi, Irish Whistles and more...

Linsey Pollak is well known all around Australia as a musician, instrument maker, composer, musical director and community music facilitator. He has toured his solo shows extensively in Europe, Nth America and Asia since 1996. He established The Multicultural Arts Centre of WA and has co-ordinated five Cross-cultural Music Ensembles in three different States. He has also performed at most major Festivals around Australia and recorded over 40 albums (solo & with various groups).