JOLTED ARTS SPACE

Presented by JOLT Arts

HUH (Jpn)
THE AMPLIFIED ELEPHANTS

Legendary noise and sound art duo HUH bring the action to JOLTED Arts Space, and supported by Australia’s truly remarkable sound art ensemble The Amplified Elephants.

20 February, Thursday: 7:30pm

TICKETS AT THE DOOR   $10

HUH

Welcoming trailblazing Japanese free form noise/rock/avant duo HUH, who put the unfettered scream back into punk. HUH is one of the major shining lights in the Japanese avant-garde.

Kyosuke Terada: electric guitar
Takuma Mori: drums

THE AMPLIFIED ELEPHANTS (AUS)

“they taught us all how to listen,” The Age

Australia’s leading sound art ensemble featuring artists with neurodiversities. An award-winning surround sound music theatre performance (Best Avant Garde Work, Music Victoria 2022). Works such as SELECT NATURALIS have consistently received high praise:

“As the voiceover says, ‘meta-listening,’ a biological feature perhaps developed by our distant ancestors, involves just such a process of shining awareness on the functional, and the willingly unseen or unheard. Select Naturalis seeks to metaphorise that awareness and, it seems, achieve real social affect: community, inclusion, technological progress and ever-better names for things.” Realtime 2015

The Amplified Elephants artists describe their sound as:

     Teagan Connor: “melodious”

     Jay Euesden: “like getting on a train”

     Steven Hagiliassis: “relaxing and creative”

     Daniel Munnery: “glitch, drone stuff”

     Robyn McGrath: “noisy, R2D2”

     Kathryn Sutherland: “spaceships”

     Esther Tuddenham: “like dreaming”

     Natalie Walters: “cars revving up the engines”

The Amplified Elephants are an ensemble produced by JOLT Arts since 2008 and incubated until 2019 as part of the ArtLife program at Footscray Community Arts. In 2015, The Amplified Elephants performed in La La Lullaby at Federation Square (Lights in Winter Festival) and SELECT NATURALIS at Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music, as well as touring Asia with JOLT and performing in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Macau.

SUPPORTED BY

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Japan Foundation.