Naarm based percussionist Sofia Carbonara’s debut solo performance in AUS and “On Names” solo vibraphone EP release + Niran Dasika (solo)

Thursday, July 13 2023

7pm Doors

7:30 Music

@ LongPlay (318 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North VIC 3068)

$15 via humanatix

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Niran Dasika brass, electronics

Sofia Carbonara

Tll 4: for a kitchen, vibraphone, voice, colander, video, pre-recorded voice

**premiere

On Names, vibraphone, pre-recorded voice

**digital EP, video with Matt Lima Films and cassette release with Alien Passengers July 13

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Naarm-based percussionist Sofia Carbonara performs with mixed-chamber ensemble Virago, designs collaborative, interdisciplinary works with artists in their community, and writes and performs their own intermedia works. Flight (solo) interweaves their father discussing pleasure, culture, addiction, and a reoccurring dream of flying, with Sofia’s own music and actions (2022). Their debut EP for solo vibraphone, On Names, will be available on July 13 2023 through digital release, cassette with Alien Passengers, and video with Matt Lima Films. More at sofiacarbonara.com

ON Tll 4: for a kitchen

…for a kitchen, the first work staged for live performance of a series entitled the transdimensional love letters, explores agency as an organizer of inputs.

ON “On Names:”

I recorded the voices of my parents (Joaquin & Daniela) reading off phonemes (the sounds in words) from Spanish, Italian, and German in search of what my name was made out of. I took this to the vibraphone.

Crawling inside a mouth, inner metal parts sang. On Names is the time I spent there.

Niran Dasika is a trumpeter, improvisor and composer based in Melbourne, Australia whose work encompasses jazz, free improvisation and electronic music. Niran’s virtuosic trumpet playing and unique voice as a composer and band leader have led a wide-ranging career around Australia and Japan, where he lived for several years. His work has been recognised by a number of awards including the 2019 APRA AMCOS Professional Development Award, the 2019 Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year and 2nd place at the 2017 National Jazz Awards. Niran’s live solo performances augments his distinctive, etherial trumpet sound with delay, looping and live processing to create mesmeric, hypnotic patterns underneath his lyrical trumpet playing.

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banner artwork by Mike Collino, Ana Hansa-Ogren, Zoe Cutler, & Sofia Carbonara