The Ice Suite Concerto

The Ice Suite Concerto - a digital and analogue improvisational experience

Saturday May 30th –The Inkbox Theatre, Oamaru Opera House

4pm & 6pm

Bookings – ticketdirect.co.nz

Multimedia music ensemble co.sonance will commemorate the death of Robert Falcon Scott and his men on May 30th at the Inkbox Theatre Oamaru Opera House with ‘The Ice Suite’ a non-narrative music and image performance experience of Scott’s doomed exploration of the Antarctic.

The Ice Suite is a cutting edge mix of computer generated digital music and imagery interacting with analogue electric viola and acoustic classical violin.

Co-sonance performances are an amalgamation of programmed composition and images with spontaneous improvisation between sound and image.The musicians respond both to each other and the visual mix, and the visual mix is produced in response to the music. While some aspects of both musical and visual scores are pre-composed and pre-arranged, the work relies on the improvisatory capacities of the musicians and the live video artist to ensure that every performance is unique.
The line–up of co-sonance is an intriguing combination of digital and analogue composers. On the digital side is a music producer who uses samples and loops to create sound tracks for Hollywood movie trailers, and a visual artist who combines nightclub VJ techniques to create non-linear stories to experimental sound scapes. On the analogue side is a classically trained violinist who plays a high tech carbon fibre violin through a rock guitarist’s set of FX pedals, and a much sought after session master of the five string viola.

Audiences of all ages and musical tastes find the complexity of the arrangements and the interplay between live and programmed sound and live digital visual mix, absorbing, immersive and entertaining and an unforgettable aesthetic experience.

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