Get your commemorative CD of our vibrant Offspring Bites 2 release. Featuring all four tracks, beautifully made cardboard wallet with an program note insert featuring program notes and pictures.
Includes unlimited streaming of Offspring Bites 2 (2019)
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Love in Solitude - composed by Andrea Keller
Composed as a result of winning the 2017 Merlyn Myer Composing Women’s Commission, 'Love in Solitude' is a meditation on the eloquent thoughts presented in Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. Alongside the live ensemble, the work features a backing track consisting of pre-recorded, highly manipulated sounds made by the performers on stage, in studio. Jem Savage was an important collaborator on this soundscape and the voice of Miroslav Bukovsky (a Canberra based trumpet player) recites the text. This substantial work moves through numerous moods as depicted in Rilke’s thoughts, beginning with solitude as an essential state for any artist, sadness and pain and their inevitability, and finally patience, love and optimism, of paramount importance.
Love in Solitude - film by Peter Humble
The film, Love in Solitude, could be described as a database film. That is, it was edited together from a personal database, primarily of hand processed 16mm images, shot over a period from 2011 to the present day. Shot, as they were in solitude, coaxed slowly and in darkness out of a chemical soup. It felt right to be paring them with this work, with Andrea’s moving score and Rilke’s quiet insistence on the necessity for patience and solitude in creation. In the edit, I let Andrea’s music take the lead; Rilke’s text already providing a strong conceptual framework and the shiting textures and repetitions of the sound helped guide the final form of the film.
Andrea Keller (b.1973) has received three ARIA Awards, six Australian Jazz ‘Bell’ Awards, two Art Music Awards, an APRA Professional Development Award, the Merlyn Myer Composing Women's Commission, and fellowships from the MCA/Freedman Foundation and the Australia Council. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Improvisation (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts (2001) and a Master of Arts (Research) from Queensland University of Technology (2011).
Peter Humble is a cross disciplinary artist working between film, video, sound & music. For many years he specialised in drums and percussion and developed a unique electro acoustic
approach to the drum kit. He has performed and had his film work screened in a wide variety of
contexts including national and international festivals, theatre, dance & galleries. Recent
highlights include, Music for Dirty Film, (2018) screened at the 2018 Sydney Underground
Film Festival.
Words by Rainer Maria Rilke
‘Solitude
Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours.
If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and a little beyond the outworks of our intuitions, perhaps we should then bear our sadnesses with greater assurance than our joys. For they are the moments when something new enters into us; something unknown to us, our feelings, shy and inhibited, fall silent, everything in us withdraws, a stillness settles on us, and at the centre of it is the new presence that nobody yet knows, making no sound.
Great inner loneliness
There is only one solitude, and it is vast and not easy to bear and almost everyone has moments when they would happily exchange it.
Patience
Let every impression and the germ of every feeling come to completion inside, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, in what is unattainable to one's own intellect, and to wait with deep humility and patience for the hour when a new clarity is delivered.
Patience is all!
Grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow. It will come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are simply there in their vast, quiet tranquility, as if eternity lay before them.
Everything must be possible’
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Performed by Ensemble Offspring - Lamorna Nightingale (flutes), Jason Noble (clarinets), Jacob Abela (piano), Claire Edwardes (percussion).
Ensemble Offspring is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts advisory body, and the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Ensemble Offspring are Australia’s leading new music group. Uniting the country’s most fearless instrumentalists under the
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