To celebrate, recorder players Rodney Waterman and Ryan Williams will improvise in concert together, responding live to the beautiful spaces and artworks exhibited at the Victorian Artists Society Gallery. They will play a range of artisan handcrafted recorders and end-blown flutes. In this performance you will experience a musical practice Duo Windborne have been developing since 2016, improvising freely within a flexible framework of rhythmic, melodic, and textural groove. Join Rod and Ryan as they recount their time recording by the fireside on a freezing, wet and wintry long weekend at Venus Bay, South Gippsland, Bunurong and Gunaikurnai Country.
A selection of wine will be available at the event for free. Doors open at 6:30PM to allow time to view the artworks, collect a drink, and buy a CD. The performance runs from 7PM to 8PM. Looking forward to seeing you there!
'It’s good to hear music that sounds so fresh and newly minted. As if channelling visual artist Paul Klee, Rodney and Ryan ‘take a line for a walk’, moving freely from different starting points, playing games using hockets, jigs, ostinatos, divisions and rhythmic variations, to improvise a collection of musical vignettes. Long live the wooden fipple flute played with such skill.'
— Michael Atherton, Australian musician, composer, academic and author.
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