Featuring two prominent figures in Japanese Hip-hop, The Australian Art Orchestra in collaboration with the Tokyo based collective Namboku Records, presents a warehouse party in the heart of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
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A bilateral collaboration between the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO) and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival to commission and present four new works by Australian and UK composers performed in both countries.
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Six powerful women reimagine folkloric stories of goddesses from their many shared heritages, echoing tales of creation, regeneration and transformation, and evokes a time when music and language, art and life, were intertwined.
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A song cycle composed by Yuin woman, Brenda Gifford. Originally commissioned for the 2020 Canberra International Music Festival, adapted with electronic soundscapes and the voice of the composer speaking in Language.
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An intertwining of personal narratives that features Vietnamese/Australian multi-instrumentalist Dung Nguyen and fuses the sounds of Vietnamese folk music with contemporary jazz.
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A call to open ears: eluding genre, traversing continents and fusing ancient and contemporary. At its heart are Yolgnu manikay (song cycles), a 40,000+ year-old oral tradition from South East Arnhem Land.
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Ground-breaking music that lands like a gut punch. An inspired sonic journey that draws the listener close to the beauty of the moment in these fast changing times featuring Zimbabwean/Australian spoken word artist, Tariro Mavondo.
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A video series that puts the spotlight on selected members from our pool of incredible collaborators in celebration of the Australian Art Orchestra’s 25th anniversary.
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