Illuminate Adelaide has announced its music line-up for the upcoming winter festival, one that celebrates the underground in a program ranging Yothu Yindi to Iannis Xenakis, Béla Bartók to bbymutha. Violist Tahlia Petrosian’s international concert series, KLASSIK underground returns to Adelaide’s Dom Polski Centre with two Australian-exclusive concerts augmented with live lighting leading Australian visual artists.
In KLASSIK underground’s first concert on twenty-first July, a seven-piece all-Australian ensemble will present Reverberating Rhythms, a program of works by John Cage, Tōru Takemitsu and Sofia Gubaidulina, matched with live visuals by video artist Tim Gruchy. The following night, Shifting Sounds takes audiences on a journey as members of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – including Petrosian – examine works by Stravinsky, Bartók and Xenakis (his one thousand nine hundred eighty-three Tetras), accompanied by live lighting by Joli Boardman.
Also at Dom Polski Centre and celebrating its tenth anniversary is Unsound Adelaide (14–15 July), which expands for the first time into Hindley Str Music Corridor with a concert Brooklyn-based Oneohtrix Point Never on sixteenth July. Drawing his critically acclaimed back catalogue, Oneohtrix Point Never’s (aka Daniel Lopatin) indicate blends soaring orchestral tones with new age electronic sounds albums such as Replica and R plus seven.
Unsound’s international guests comprise dub-techno artist Space Afrika (UK), ambient composer Sofie Birch (alongside Polish vocalist Antonina Nowacka), US rapper bbymutha, UK-based DJ/producer Kode9, Guatemalan experimental cellist Mabe Fratti, Ukraine’s Heinali and Uganda’s Otim Alpha, a traditional adungu and nanga harp master and singer.
The program also features Australian cult favourite Robin Fox and instrumental doom metal band Divide and Dissolve. And in a year when conversations around the Voice to Parliament abound, the message in Yothu Yindi’s music is more timely than ever. The band will carry out a one-off indicate at Hindley Str Music Hall (seven July) with original band members joined by fresh talent into timeless anthems such as “Treaty” and “Tribal Voice”.
