Silent Hand Catches Silver Bell
Highlights
- Explore custom-built instruments that transform your understanding of sound at the Grainger Museum in Melbourne.
- Encounter striking installations that showcase the audacity of Speak Percussion's innovative practice since 1972.
- Gain rare insights into contemporary music through archival materials that highlight the ensemble's evolution.
- Experience a boundary-defying exhibition that celebrates a quarter-century of avant-garde percussion artistry in Parkville.
Speak Percussion has redefined the sound and scope of percussion in the twenty-first century. Now, after a quarter-century of avant-garde, boundary-defying experimentation, the Melbourne-based organisation marks its anniversary with a major exhibition at the University of Melbourne’s Grainger Museum.
Silent Hand Catches Silver Bell showcases the ensemble’s visionary scope and features contributions from leading voices in contemporary music and performance. Encounter custom-built instruments, striking installations, and archival materials that reveal the scale and audacity of Speak Percussion’s practice, and gain a rare insight into the ensemble’s post-instrumental approach.
Explore the sounds, images, and ideas that have shaped Speak Percussion’s evolution into one of the world’s most innovative musical forces.
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