Tidelines—Zela Papageorgiou (Speak Percussion)

Doors at 7pm
Performance from 7.30pm
Artist in conversation: 8.30pm (Saturday only)

A tideline is the ocean’s signature: an ever-changing, tangled boundary of foam and seaweed, driftwood and debris, calm and turbulence. 

Zela Papageorgiou’s Tidelines shares her personal devotion to the artistic practice of percussion in an hour-long, intimate and immersive listening experience.

This debut concert presents a program of original compositions shaped by her encounters with nature and moments of solitude—drawing from Zela’s time spent in regional Australia and rural Japan. 

Both a personal reflection and a shared ritual, this performance offers a journey through memory and place.

Tidelines invites listeners to drift through shifting textures of rhythmic and hypnotic percussion that flow and converge with ambient sound worlds. 

This performance is presented by Speak Percussion in partnership with Next Wave.

Artistic Team

Director, Performer and Composer: Zela Papageorgiou
Performer and Compositional Collaborator: Hamish Upton
Sound Designer and Compositional Collaborator: Alistair McLean
Lighting Designer: Giovanna Yate Gonzalez

This project has been generously assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. 

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Zela Papageorgiou is a Naarm-based percussionist, creating and performing in the fields of contemporary-classical music, Sound Art and improvisation. She is a current PhD candidate at Monash University, an Associate Artist with Melbourne’s leading Art Music ensemble Speak Percussion and is the core percussionist of contemporary chamber ensemble Forest Collective. As a creative collaborator and chamber musician, Zela has appeared with organisations and ensembles including Play On and Ad Lib Collective, and has performed in local festivals and events such as MPavilion, Melbourne Music Week, Melbourne Festival, Brunswick Music Festival, Midsumma Festival and Art After Dark. She has participated in artist residencies with organisations including The Australian Tapestry Workshop (VIC), Bundanon (NSW), Four Winds (NSW) and Shiro Oni Studios (Japan).

Zela is 2024—2025 Associate Artist with Speak Percussion. Artistic Associates contribute towards the creative developments, presentations, recordings and tours within the company’s annual program as either lead artists, collaborating artists or project managers.

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Next Wave
270 Sydney Road, Bullek-bek (Brunswick)

Accessibility
Brunswick Mechanics Institute is a step-free venue with accessible bathrooms. 

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