Rare Chords

RARE CHORDS is a deep-listening community based in Nipaluna, Lutruwita. Our aim is to connect artists from diverse musical traditions & sound practises in a spirit of collaboration and cross-pollination. Our events take place across a range of contemplative & intimate performance environments, prioritising warm and visually-calm spaces where musicians and audiences can relax, connect, and share energy together. In addition to curating established acts, Rare Chords invites unlikely pairings and spontaneous collaborations between invited musicians, encouraging experimentation, improvisation, and the blurring of genre boundaries, all within a restorative atmosphere of deep listening.

For our first event, we are pleased to present two acts performing beneath the towering eucalypts in the tranquil ambience of the courtyard garden at KickStart Arts in New Town: 

* Ever wondered how the abundant reefs around Nipaluna sound? Emily Sheppard has been recording the underwater sounds of the Great Southern Reef for the past few years and is curating a soundbathing experience filled with marine field recordings and surreal watery soundscapes, overlaid with live violin, eel-skin erhu and vocals.

* Our second act will be a quartet of musicians hailing from a range of musical backgrounds, improvising together for the first time in the reflective wake of Emily’s marine immersion. This quartet features Andrea Breen (viola), Pablo Cadenas (tuned percussion), Tim Jones (tuba) and Callum Cusick (guitar) 

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