Curated for Magnet’s iconic Spatial Studio, S P A T I A L I V E features monthly performances by some of Naarm / Melbourne’s most exciting artists. The series aims to create a unique listening environment, with an emphasis on song and improvisational based music, embracing the intimacy of the Spatial. This month’s event features solo sets from Peggy Lee and Jacques Emery.

Cellist/composer Peggy Lee is a founding member of Standing Wave and a frequent collaborator with many other Vancouver, BC based new music ensembles. She has written pieces for the Hard Rubber Orchestra, Vancouver New Music as well as for the numerous projects that she leads or co-leads including the Peggy Lee Band, Film In Music, Echo Painting, Waxwing, and Handmade Blade. Each of these groups consists of a different configuration of players from an ever-growing pool. Peggy is currently dividing her time between Vancouver and Melbourne and looks forward to many fruitful collaborative projects within this thriving and dynamic scene.

Jacques Emery is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser. He has worked with artists such as Mike Nock, Barney McAll, Peter Knight, and Simon Barker, and has performed at jazz festivals in Berlin, Wrocław and London with the Australian Art Orchestra. He appeared multiple times at both the Melbourne International Jazz Festival and STRATA Festival in 2022. His label People Sound champions experimental instrumental music, having released artists like Flora Carbo, Chloe Kim and Joe O'Connor. His 2022 EP "ARCO" documents his investigations into extended bowing techniques and ~DEEP RESONANCE~ on the double bass. He is very chuffed to launch the EP in Melbourne at Spatialive among friends.

Doors 7:30pm
8pm Peggy Lee
9pm Jacques Emery

Tickets available via Humanitix
$20 / $15 Concession.

Thursday 2nd February at Magnet Studios
11 Roosevelt St, Coburg North VIC 3058

The Spatial Studio is wheelchair accessible and has a gender neutral bathroom.

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land where we work and create, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, as well as to all First Nations communities who contribute so significantly to the life of the area. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.