Session Times
Thu – Sat: 7.30pm
Sun: 5pm
Speak Percussion commissioned three wunderkind composers to create Scream Star – a remarkable live music performance collision of sound and screen with mashed-up projection and percussion.
Scream Star marks the first collaboration between the compositional voices of Matthew Shlomowitz, Johannes Kreidler and Jessie Marino, who have an impressive track record of integrating screen based media into live performances.
From canned laughter to green screens, foley artists to house bands, this trio of unexpected works digs deep into the visual unconscious shared by anyone raised on a diet of TV and film.
London-based composer, Matthew Shlomowitz creates an imaginary variety show: Hey Hey It’s Tuesday and plays with crowd reactions from televised studio audiences by giving them a new context that emphasises genuine and manufactured responses.
German composer, Johannes Kreidler exploits and reassembles the green screen in head-spinning ways where space and time are dislocated, animated and split apart. Jessie Marino is from Long Island in New York. Her piece dazzles with lights, haze, screens and blinds to produce a kaleidoscopic riot of light and sound.
Scream Star is playful and wildly imaginative. Percussionists: Eugene Ughetti, Kaylie Melville and Hamish Upton have agency to create a fun sonic experiment full of drama and delirium.
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