February 2010
Continuum
Sax at Campbelltown Arts Centre
8pm, Saturday 13 March, 2010
Continuum Sax perform for the first time at the
Campbelltown Arts Centre. The program includes a huge chunk
of stuff by Jacob TV including the Australian Premiere of
the sax quartet version of Heartbreakers.
Also on the program are World Premiere performances
of Brightest
Threads by Robert
Davidson, Ecchymoses by Rosalind Page and Drifting Memories
by Katia
Beaugeais.
October 2009
WINTERSCENARIO
The live audio-visual collaboration
between VJ/filmmaker Rachel Brown and Continuum Sax is
inspired by Jacob TV’s Postnuclear Winterscenario
No.10 – a bleakly beautiful sonic portrait of a
hypothetical reality. Continuum splays the atmosphere with
chords while Brown uses Ms Pinky software to create a
parallel universe of images reflecting suspended life and
the cold beauty that winter delivers: seasonal or not.
Music by Mark Anthony Turnage, Christian Lauba, Elena
Firsova and Tony Gorman continue the theme of
Winterscenario, reflecting landscape, memory, distance and
light.
For the balance of the
concert Continuum presents the world premiere of Damien
Ricketson’s first saxophone quartet; and the
Australian premiere of the spectralist composer Hugues
Dufourt’s Quatuor pour saxophones.
READ A REVIEW OF WINTERSCENARIO AT
RESONATE MAGAZINE
July 2009 Dutch Masters
Continuum
Sax perform as part of the Australian Institute of Music
Sunday concert series at the Art Gallery of NSW.
The concert will feature music from the Netherlands to
coincide with the Dutch Masters exhibition. It's in the big
room on the right as you walk in.
Program includes music by Martijn Padding, Jacob TV,
Orlando di Lassus and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
January 2009- Continuum
Sax perform at Hyde Park on Australia Day for ABC Classic
FM
Continuum Sax
performed live to air on ABC Classic FM on Australia Day
from Hyde Park in Sydney. Repertoire included the
Extraordinary Flight with a Piece of String by Peter Boyd,
new songs by Martin Kay, (My Waltz is Longer and Scotland
Jop), Puccini, Woods and Cecile Broché. Photo on ABC Website.
December 2008 - Continuum Sax Grab It! Jacob Ter Veldhuis
on Saxophones
Continuum Sax present the prerecorded sound worlds of Dutch
composer Jacob Ter Veldhuis’ music for saxophone and
boombox. Veldhuis' music sides with the underdog and
the darker regions of life. Billie Holiday, prison inmates,
Times Square Evangelists, and Chet Baker provide speech
patterns used to shape the saxophones phraseology. The
tonality of the saxophone quartet vies for prominence with
the gnashing music of the boombox in this
rhythmically assertive, architecturally exciting, and
emotionally engaging music.
September 2008 -
Continuum Sax @ The Hollywood
Imagine listening to Continuum Sax perform in a cosy
National Trust hotel. Now imagine further that they are
recreating the work of iconic Sydney saxophone quartet the
Original Otto Orchestra. Low frequency bass sax rumbles at
no extra cost. Vague beads of sweat formed through sinuous
melody, strange aquatic chords, and a prehensile grip on
the transitory. Then add beer. Something along those lines
..............
August 2008 - Continuum
Sax and Cécile Broché
Continuum Sax performs with the
Belgian eclectic electric violinist Cécile
Broché, exploring the exotic, the wild, and the intriguing.
Broché’s improvisational and compositional styles
embrace rock, jazz, experimental, world, and
classical genres, creating concatenations and collisions of
colours. Think Hendrix, Varese, tourettes,
grooves, traffic, cafes, clouds ...... Featuring world
premieres of compositions by Margery Smith and Cecile
Broche. To preview this wonderful artist visit
http://www.myspace.com/cecilebroche.
April
2008
Continuum Sax recorded 36 tracks for Reedmusic at Move
Studios. These should be available on a sampler CD or
through the reedmusic.com website in the near future.
View Photos Here
March 2008
Continuum Sax
will be part of Restrung at the Brisbane Powerhouse
Theatre. They will perform a concert with Wood and the
David Chesworth Ensemble as well as participate in the
modular orchestra. Details available soon.
Australia Day
2008
Continuum Sax performed at a live broadcast from Hyde Park
on Australia Day. Music by Elena Kats-Chernin, Piazzolla,
Albeniz, Lachlan Davidson, and Stuart Greenbaum.
LOST IN
TRANSLATION?
Translation: "interpretation or an explanation"
or "removal or conveyance from one condition to
another".
An adaptation of a musical piece for
performance on another combination of instruments
is referred to as a transcription. Is such a
transcription a work of art?
Sciarrino describes his
'elaboration', Pagine, as a translation for
the saxophone quartet. The piece contains a number of
excerpts from the Western tradition of notated music that
have been adapted for saxophone quartet.
Krzysztof Penderecki's Quartett for clarinet and string
trio and Henri Pousseur's Vue Sur Les Jardins Interdits,
are also works that have had a previous existence before
their present incarnations for the saxophone
quartet.
Plagiarism or translation? You be the
judge.
Continuum Sax is Margery Smith, James
Nightingale, Martin Kay and Jarrod Whitbourn.
Presented by the New Music Network
AUSTRALIAN MUSIC DAY AT
MLC SCHOOL
July 2007
The Music Department of MLC School have invited Continuum
Sax to be guest artists at their Australian Music Day.
Activities include improvisation and composition workshops,
and a performance of Stuart Greenbaum's saxophone quartet,
Five of One, Half a Dozen of the Other....
NEWCASTLE
CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC LUNCH HOUR
CONCERT
1pm, Thursday, 19th July, 2007
Featuring Pagine
by Salvatore Sciarrino.