NOMINATION: Performance of the Year - Jazz / Improvised Music
For the performance of a single Australian work, showcasing the performer(s)’ success in improvisatory creation or collaboration. This may entail entirely improvised work or significant improvisatory input such as solo passages.
A work is defined as a single complete musical composition, or expression. This includes music with movements or sub-works (i.e. song cycles), installations, and real-time compositions (improvised music).
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Nominee
Paddy Fitzgerald, Oscar Neyland, Helen Svoboda, Jacques Emery, Harry Birch, Jonathan Zwartz, Chloe Kim
Nominee email
chloekimyj@gmail.com
Title of the work
Music For Six Double Basses
Composer(s) of the work
Chloe Kim 김예지
Performance Date
31/10/2024
Venue
Phoenix Central Park
Nominator Statement
Chloe Kim has already established herself as one of the foremost improvisers and drummers in the country. Her seminal work '100 Hours', performed at MOMA in Tasmania is testament to her dedication to her craft and exploration of the drumset.
Her composition, Music For Six Double Basses marks an important turning point for Kim as a composer and performer. This work was written as a response to her 100 Hours project, after which Kim went searching for (was craving) sonorities that were actively different to that the drumset. Playing with project scale, density of textures and relationality are trademark aspects of Kim's compositional practice, and Music For Six Double Basses is a prime example of Kim's magnificent capacity to truly tease out the sonic extremities of an instrument.
I was privileged to attend the premiere of the work at Phoenix Central Park last year and the joy in the room was palpable among both the musicians and the audience. Music For Six Double Basses is a masterpiece composition in which the idiosyncrasies of each double bassist's playing style were not just facilitated but celebrated. Kim's conducting also played a key role in enabling this to occur.
The performance unfolded not unlike a dance - all musicians moving in tandem with one another, weaving tapestries of groove-based themes, to the unbridled use of preparations and extended techniques. A spellbinding performance, the energy in the room reached euphoric proportions when Kim encouraged the audience to participate by singing with the double basses in the final movement. Community and connection are fundamental tenets of Kim's creative practice and it was wonderful to see these ideas be so fully realised in this performance. It is for these reasons that I wish to nominate Music For Six Double Bassists for Performance of the Year: Jazz / Improvised Music.
Nominee
Paddy Fitzgerald, Oscar Neyland, Helen Svoboda, Jacques Emery, Harry Birch, Jonathan Zwartz, Chloe Kim
Nominee email
chloekimyj@gmail.com
Title of the work
Music For Six Double Basses
Composer(s) of the work
Chloe Kim 김예지
Performance Date
31/10/2024
Venue
Phoenix Central Park
Her composition, Music For Six Double Basses marks an important turning point for Kim as a composer and performer. This work was written as a response to her 100 Hours project, after which Kim went searching for (was craving) sonorities that were actively different to that the drumset. Playing with project scale, density of textures and relationality are trademark aspects of Kim's compositional practice, and Music For Six Double Basses is a prime example of Kim's magnificent capacity to truly tease out the sonic extremities of an instrument.
I was privileged to attend the premiere of the work at Phoenix Central Park last year and the joy in the room was palpable among both the musicians and the audience. Music For Six Double Basses is a masterpiece composition in which the idiosyncrasies of each double bassist's playing style were not just facilitated but celebrated. Kim's conducting also played a key role in enabling this to occur.
The performance unfolded not unlike a dance - all musicians moving in tandem with one another, weaving tapestries of groove-based themes, to the unbridled use of preparations and extended techniques. A spellbinding performance, the energy in the room reached euphoric proportions when Kim encouraged the audience to participate by singing with the double basses in the final movement. Community and connection are fundamental tenets of Kim's creative practice and it was wonderful to see these ideas be so fully realised in this performance. It is for these reasons that I wish to nominate Music For Six Double Bassists for Performance of the Year: Jazz / Improvised Music.