On Diamond: The Lake is a Gleaming Mirror, with Sabina Maselli, Duré Dara & Joseph Franklin
Event description
On Diamond, The Lake is a Gleaming Mirror
On Diamond perform a new set of songs offering a poetic commentary on relationship/s to self, others, our surroundings, and an internal concept of time. With Sabina Maselli on visuals via projections, and a few carefully placed objects, to encourage the inner world outward.
Featuring:
Lisa Salvo - vocals
Scott McConnachie - guitar/synth
Myka Wallace - drums
Jules Pascoe - bass
Genevieve Fry - harp
Sabina Maselli - projections
With special guests:
Duré Dara - percussion & Joseph Franklin - bass
A rare performance by legendary improvising percussionist Duré Dara, with bassist/composer/improviser Joseph Franklin.
(Artist bios below)
Doors - 6:30pm
Duré Dara & Joseph Franklin - 7:00pm
On Diamond - 8:00pm
9:00pm - end
At Avalon the Bar
387 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation as the traditional custodians and rightful owners of the land we are performing on, and would like to pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Free entry for First Nations peoples - please select the relevant ticket type.
Accessibility including wheelchair access is limited - please email thebar.avalon@gmail.com and/or eastmintrecords@gmail.com for specific details.
Bathrooms are gender neutral.
On Diamond -
Traversing a multitude of genres, Naarm/Melbourne-based quintet On Diamond take an anomalous look at alternative pop. Their sound relies on an interactive group dynamic, and is inspired by folk, noise, rock, pop, jazz and improvised music.
On Diamond’s output has seen the band attract critical acclaim. Their 2019 self-titled debut album (Eastmint Records) was nominated for The Australian Music Prize and Music Victoria Awards’ Best Album, as well as receiving Album Of The Week on 4ZZZ, Triple R and PBS, and being included in PBS’ Top Ten Albums of 2019.
Sabina Maselli -
Sabina Maselli is an artist and filmmaker whose multilayered works are presented as films, photographs, and in site specific contexts such as installations and live performances.
She uses both analogue and digital processing through a very physical and alchemical engagement with her materials. She sees her works as sites for transformation between body, nature, memory and technology, and how they manifest in the physical, material, mystical, and mythological realms.
Sabina directs music videos, and is a visual designer and editor. She also creates expanded cinema works for musicians, theatre, online content, and live performances. She is core member of the film collective Artist Film Workshop (AFW) based in Melbourne.
Her works have been presented locally and internationally: Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Sydney Contemporary, Channels Festival, Melbourne, Mons European Capital of Culture festival, Belgium, Mona Foma Festival Hobart, Oberhausen short film festival, (lab series) Germany, NES Artist Residency, Iceland, JARF festival Indonesia. She has worked with companies such as Australian Art Orchestra, Chamber Made Opera, Punctum, and Speak Percussion. She has collaborated with musicians such as Tetema (Anthony Pateras and Mike Patton), Erkki Veltheim, Natasha Anderson and Judith Hamann. She has received support from various funding bodies (such as Australia Council, Creative Victoria, the Japan Foundation Sydney, Punctum). Sabina completed a Masters in Creative Media (Film and Television Production) from RMIT University, Melbourne, 2014. Her works have been screened with AFW at places such as San Fransisco Cinematheque, Austrian Film Museum, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) Melbourne, Close-up Cinema, London, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).
Duré Dara -
Duré Dara has been a dynamic contributor to countless community, artistic and hospitality projects over the course of her life. She has served as convenor of the Victorian Women's Trust since 1993, and board member since 1991. She was previously Vice President of Philanthropy Australia and was the first woman president of the Victorian Restaurant and Caterers Association.
Duré is Indian by race, Malaysian by birth and a citizen of Australia by choice. Duré received an Order of Australia Medal in 1997 for services to the community and promotional and fundraising activities for women’s groups. In addition to this she received The Vida Goldstein Award for Excellence, and made the Inaugural Women’s Honour Roll in 2001.
Of her musical talents, Duré says she is ‘a performing musician of spontaneously improvised music for over forty years’. She is well known for her work as a percussionist with the late David Tolley and in the Brian Brown Quintet, and continues to deliver extraordinary performances with members of the improvising community today.
Joseph Franklin -
Joseph Franklin is a bassist and composer from regional Victoria, currently based in Narrm/Melbourne. His work draws on post-human and ecologically informed understandings of historical and contemporary creative practice, and spans improvised, notated, experimental and sound art.
Along with leading his own projects, Franklin is a member of Sydney-based new music ensemble The Music Box Project, co-founder of experimental performance group The Opera Company, and has ongoing collaborations with saxophonist Sam Gill and drummer/composer Satoshi Takeishi.
Franklin has composed for a range of ensembles including the Australian Youth Orchestra, Flinders Quartet, Ensemble Nouveau, Geist Quartet and The Music Box Project. He has also performed at concerts, festivals and art spaces across the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Turkey and Australia.
As a recipient of the 2020 Marten Bequest Scholarship, he is developing several projects including a piano concerto, a method for solo contrabass guitar, an international collaboration in Tunisia, and the design and build of a new hybrid bass instrument.
In 2019 he recorded his second studio album Amen in New York City with pianist Marc Hannaford and drummer Satoshi Takeishi. The album was released via Earshift Music and was performed in the USA and Australia. Amen was described as "the avant-garde of today" (The Weekend Australian) and the Melbourne album launch was a finalist for performance of the year at the 2020 Art Music Awards.
In 2018 Franklin released his debut album as bandleader. Rites, features renowned musicians Jamie Oehlers on saxophone, Ollie McGill on piano and co-composer, and Dave Beck on drums.
Notable residencies and intensives include Darmstadt Ferienkurse (2021); All That We Are residency (2020) in Tasmania; the Bundanon Trust residency (2019); the Australian Art Orchestra Creative Music Intensive (2018) in Tasmania; IRCAM Manifeste! (2017) in Paris; Time of Music Festival (2017) in Finland; and the Australian Youth Orchestra Summer Music Program (2017).