the music box project presents: SOUND PARTY
the music box project is back upstairs @ The Glebe! 🍻🥰👂🎶
To celebrate, we’re throwing a SOUND PARTY and you’re invited! Join us for an afternoon of music outside the usual order of things with music/situations/games/maps composed by Jane Aubourg, Elizabeth Jigalin, Naomi Johnson, Peter Leung, Joseph Lisk and Arvo Pärt.
Opening the afternoon, Lucy Vallely (voice) and Danica Hobden (guitar) will be sharing a set of English songs from the renaissance and baroque, interweaving tales of lost love, frivolous joys and underworld Furies with snakes for hair.
Tickets: $10 contactless payment available at the door
All ticket sales from SOUND PARTY go towards funding the music box project’s 2022 series. Your support enables us to make more music! Your ticket includes music, a zine and a pocket treasure.
The Glebe Hotel
63 Bay Street, Glebe Sydney
Shallow Listening
SOLD OUT - 15th & 16th May.
Artfully beguiling, subtly chaotic and deliciously zany, the music box project brings you the Sydney premiere of Shallow Listening. Five ‘sonic pillars’ of exploratory works by Moya Henderson, Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung, Jaslyn Robertson, Elizabeth Jigalin and Joseph Franklin are woven together with a performative sinew of sound, motion and play. From the clicking of scissors to slow motion singing, cheeky meditations on red, a plethora of toys and the catharsis of an internal dialogue — leave your expectations at the door and join the ensemble for an evening of signature music box madness.
Premiered at the 2019 Bendigo International Festival of Experimental Music (BIFEM), this genre-defying performance received the 2020 APRA AMCOS/AMC Art Music Award for Excellence in Experimental Music.
Australia Hall
150-152 Elizabeth Street, Sydney CBD, NSW 2000
2020 Virtual Art Music Awards
The music box project is a Finalist in the Award for Excellence for our project Shallow Listening - tune in to watch the Virtual Awards this year!
Online
Youtube livestream
Sound Game Picnic
join the music box project. whilst they play, explore and sonically activate cockatoo island, sydney harbour.
a 6 hour live-streaming event with music made from maps, sonic scavenger hunts, notes on isolation, adventuring sound keepers/seekers, droning chase sequences, live drawing/scoring and more. each artist will be wearing a camera for online audiences to choose their view, mix, match and experience this curiously noisy picnic at home.
Online
hibernation lo-fi festival website
Upstairs @ The Glebe
Curated by Joe Franklin. In 2019, the music box project will continue it's monthly curated gigs upstairs in the newly renamed Glebe Hotel (previously known as the Australian Youth Hotel). Swing by to hear some music outside the usual order of things.
The Glebe Hotel
63 Bay St, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia
Wollongong Writer's Festival Program Launch
Join us for the launch of our 2019 program. Hosted by Sydney comedian Lizzy Hoo, this free, public event will see us raise a glass or two to writing and its power to illuminate topics that usually remain hidden in the dark, while local violinist Jane Aubourg sets the party mood with her post-minimalist, looping tunes. The theme of this year's festival is All Lit Up, so this is sure to be an enlightening evening!
Music Lounge, Wollongong Town Hall
Cnr Crown St & Kembla St, Wollongong NSW 2500
Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music: Shallow Listening
The major component of Sydney composer | performer collective The Music Box Project’s 2019 BIFEM début is an immersive event featuring world premieres from two of the collective, as well as rising star composers, Brisbane-based Jasmin Leung and Melbourne-based Jaslyn Robertson. Some 45 years after it was composed, and rounding out the programme, is the Australian premiere of iconic Australian composer Moya Henderson’s Clearing the Air. These works speak to each other across two generations and BIFEM audiences are all the richer for the exchange.
Bendigo Trades Hall
40 View St, Bendigo VIC 3550
Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music: Cushion Concert
As part of their residency at 2019 BIFEM, Sydney composer | performer collective The Music Box Project open this year’s festival with our 6th annual Cushion Concert, BIFEM’s next- generation programme for pre-school audiences and their adult companions. The Cushion Concert remains one of the most hotly contested performance opportunities for BIFEM artists. Holding the attention of an adult audience is a coded and negotiated space, but holding a group of under-5-year-olds’ attention really means you have to perform!The exploratory collectivism that is the heart of The Music Box Project promises to deliver one of our best Cushion Concerts to date!
Banquet Room, The Capitol
50 View St, Bendigo VIC 3550
Live Soundtrack to Silent Film: The Lost World
To raise money for the Mt Keira Scout Camp The Lost World (1960) is showing with a live improvised soundtrack by Elizabeth Jigalin on piano & Jane Aubourg on electric violin.
Mt Keira Scout Camp
Mount Keira Rd, Mount Keira NSW 2500, Australia
Upstairs @ The Glebe
Curated by Naomi Johnson. In 2019, the music box project will continue it's monthly curated gigs upstairs in the newly renamed Glebe Hotel (previously known as the Australian Youth Hotel). Swing by to hear some music outside the usual order of things.
The Glebe Hotel
63 Bay St, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia
Jamberoo Music Festival
A solo set on electric violin and loop pedal.
Jamberoo Uniting Church
11 Wyalla Rd, Jamberoo NSW 2533, Australia
Upstairs @ The Glebe: Dust
Curated by Jane Aubourg. In 2019, the music box project will continue it's monthly curated gigs upstairs in the newly renamed Glebe Hotel (previously known as the Australian Youth Hotel). Swing by to hear some music outside the usual order of things.
The Glebe Hotel
63 Bay St, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia
Upstairs @The Glebe: You, Me, Us
Curated by Tina Stefanou. In 2019, the music box project will continue it's monthly curated gigs upstairs in the newly renamed Glebe Hotel (previously known as the Australian Youth Hotel). Swing by to hear some music outside the usual order of things.
The Glebe Hotel
63 Bay St, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia