One century ago, on the twelfth hour of the twelfth month of 1901, Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless signal. The letter “S†in Morse Code (dit dit dit) was transmitted from Poldhu in Cornwall to Signal Hill in St Johns, Newfoundland, a distance of nearly 3000km (1800 miles). So began the age of radio and wireless communication, conveniently in the first year of a new century. Topology and Loops celebrate both the medium and the century, looking back over a number of key events and people by means of recordings of broadcasts of voices. These broadcasts have been used to make ‘voice portraits’ – finding the characteristic musical qualities of each speaker and then emphasising and underscoring them with instrumental accompaniment. The result is part opera, part documentary and part entertainment. Fascinated by the way recorded sound has the power to take us to the actual people and events, Topology and Loops have created a form of time travel.
Topology is now established as a leading ensemble in contemporary art music, acclaimed internationally by leading figures in the field (including Michael Nyman, Steve Reich, Ross Edwards, John Adams, Terry Riley and many others).
The quintet’s energetic, full-blooded sound belies their compact instrumentation. Since forming in 1997, Topology has built a solid audience, and regularly performs to full houses around Australia. In 2003, they completed their first international tour, with successful concerts in Canada and creative work with composers Terry Riley and Paul Dresher.
Nothing if not flexible, Topology is often found in the theatre, in art galleries, clubs, accompanying silent film, even supporting pop groups such as Savage Garden in 10000-seat arenas. But their typical home is in the concert hall; in addition to their annual concert series, they are frequently featured in festivals, most recently producing for the Brisbane Festival a major work on the subject of Australia’s Stolen Generations, Taken, in collaboration with Lafe Charlton, Roxanne McDonald and the Southern Cross Soloists.
The group has given a wide range of performances, from experimental Fluxus music at the Queensland Art Gallery to the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival, playing nightly The Marriage of Figaro, directed by Neil Armfield and starring Geoffrey Rush. In between shows, they performed the opening concert for the Sydney Spring Festival (where they received Best Ensemble Award in 1999), and were resident ensemble at the University of Western Sydney.
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.topologymusic.com
Track List:
1. Tuning In
2. Year 2000
3. Luddites: Alexander Downer & WTO protestors
4. That Woman: Bill Clinton
5. Diana Princess of Wales
6. Pauline Hanson
7. Death cults: Heaven's Gate, Oklahoma City, David Koresh
8. Recession: Paul Keating & Bob Hawke
9. Nelson Mandela inauguration
10. George Bush: Iraq in Kuwait
11. Tiananmen Square
12. Australia II: America's Cup
13. Patrick White on Nuclear War
14. Lindy Chamberlain
15. Andy Warhol
16. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
17. Gough Whitlam: Well may we say
18. Paul Keating
19. Sir John Kerr
20. Richard Nixon
21. Cyclone Tracey
22. Brisbane Floods
23. Idi Amin
24. Gloria Steinem: This is no simple reform
25. Turn on, tune in, drop out
26. Revolution 1968
27. Moon landing: Neil Armstrong
28. Malcolnm X: Whites can help us but they can't join us
29. MLK
30. White Australia Policy
31. Arthur Caldwell
32. Menzies meets the Queen
33. Goons
34. DNA: Crick & Watson
35. Cuban Missiles
36. JFK
37. Duck & Cover: Joseph McCarthy
38. Salvador Dali
39. Sputnik
40. Olympic City 1956
41. That'll be the day: Buddy Holly & Alan Freed
42. Blue Hills
43. Pick a box: Barry Jones & Bob Dyer
44. Jawaharlal Nehru: Ghandi's funeral
45. Ghandi's spiritual message
46. Internationale: Lenin & Stalin
47. Hitler is dead
48. King George VI: V-E day
49. Hiroshima: BBC's Frank Philips, President Truman
50. Ben Chifley: V-P day
51. Tokyo Rose
52. Lord Haw Haw: Farewell speech
53. General Eisenhower: D-Day order
54. D-Day
55. Stalingrad: Paul Wnterton report
56. Darwin bombed
57. Lancaster bomber
58. Belsen: Richard Dimbleby report
59. FDR: Infamy
60. John Curtin: War with Japan
61. BBC: War in the Pacific
62. Lord Haw Haw: Germany calling
63. Attacked at Sea
64. Nazi camps: It was commonm practice to remove the skins of dead
65. Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret: Quartet for the end of empire
66. Churchill: Finest hoir
67. Chamberlain declares war
68. Mao proclaims the Republic
69. Lee de Forest:1939 World's Fair
70. Howard Carter:Tutankhamen
71. Dad & Dave
72. Edward VIII abdicates
73. Virginia Wolff
74. Albert Einstein on pacifism
75. Ghandi on pacifism
76. Bernard Shaw on pacifism
77. Hitler: germany is awake
78. War of the worlds: Orson Welles
79. Aviators: Jean Batten & Amelia Earhardt
80. Charles Kingsford Smith
81. ABC: 1932 Melbourne Cip
82. Einstein: e=mc2
83. Ernest Rutherford: atomic physics
84. Empire State Building opening
85. King Burraga: (Joe Anderson): Aboriginal rights
86. Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris
87. Don Bradman scores a century
88. Warren Harding wins the US election
89. Nellie Melba at Covent Garden
90. Sigmund Freud
91. Marconi 1915
92. Lady Margot Asquith: Outbreak of War
93. Concientous Objector: Alfred Lester
94. Marconi 1913
95. Ernest Shackleton
96. Marconi 1902
97. Marconi 1901
98. Morse Code 1
99. Morse Code 2
Other Genres:
Topology is now established as a leading ensemble in contemporary art music, acclaimed internationally by leading figures in the field (including Michael Nyman, Steve Reich, Ross Edwards, John Adams, Terry Riley and many others).
The quintet’s energetic, full-blooded sound belies their compact instrumentation. Since forming in 1997, Topology has built a solid audience, and regularly performs to full houses around Australia. In 2003, they completed their first international tour, with successful concerts in Canada and creative work with composers Terry Riley and Paul Dresher.
Nothing if not flexible, Topology is often found in the theatre, in art galleries, clubs, accompanying silent film, even supporting pop groups such as Savage Garden in 10000-seat arenas. But their typical home is in the concert hall; in addition to their annual concert series, they are frequently featured in festivals, most recently producing for the Brisbane Festival a major work on the subject of Australia’s Stolen Generations, Taken, in collaboration with Lafe Charlton, Roxanne McDonald and the Southern Cross Soloists.
The group has given a wide range of performances, from experimental Fluxus music at the Queensland Art Gallery to the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival, playing nightly The Marriage of Figaro, directed by Neil Armfield and starring Geoffrey Rush. In between shows, they performed the opening concert for the Sydney Spring Festival (where they received Best Ensemble Award in 1999), and were resident ensemble at the University of Western Sydney.
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.topologymusic.com
Track List:
1. Tuning In
2. Year 2000
3. Luddites: Alexander Downer & WTO protestors
4. That Woman: Bill Clinton
5. Diana Princess of Wales
6. Pauline Hanson
7. Death cults: Heaven's Gate, Oklahoma City, David Koresh
8. Recession: Paul Keating & Bob Hawke
9. Nelson Mandela inauguration
10. George Bush: Iraq in Kuwait
11. Tiananmen Square
12. Australia II: America's Cup
13. Patrick White on Nuclear War
14. Lindy Chamberlain
15. Andy Warhol
16. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
17. Gough Whitlam: Well may we say
18. Paul Keating
19. Sir John Kerr
20. Richard Nixon
21. Cyclone Tracey
22. Brisbane Floods
23. Idi Amin
24. Gloria Steinem: This is no simple reform
25. Turn on, tune in, drop out
26. Revolution 1968
27. Moon landing: Neil Armstrong
28. Malcolnm X: Whites can help us but they can't join us
29. MLK
30. White Australia Policy
31. Arthur Caldwell
32. Menzies meets the Queen
33. Goons
34. DNA: Crick & Watson
35. Cuban Missiles
36. JFK
37. Duck & Cover: Joseph McCarthy
38. Salvador Dali
39. Sputnik
40. Olympic City 1956
41. That'll be the day: Buddy Holly & Alan Freed
42. Blue Hills
43. Pick a box: Barry Jones & Bob Dyer
44. Jawaharlal Nehru: Ghandi's funeral
45. Ghandi's spiritual message
46. Internationale: Lenin & Stalin
47. Hitler is dead
48. King George VI: V-E day
49. Hiroshima: BBC's Frank Philips, President Truman
50. Ben Chifley: V-P day
51. Tokyo Rose
52. Lord Haw Haw: Farewell speech
53. General Eisenhower: D-Day order
54. D-Day
55. Stalingrad: Paul Wnterton report
56. Darwin bombed
57. Lancaster bomber
58. Belsen: Richard Dimbleby report
59. FDR: Infamy
60. John Curtin: War with Japan
61. BBC: War in the Pacific
62. Lord Haw Haw: Germany calling
63. Attacked at Sea
64. Nazi camps: It was commonm practice to remove the skins of dead
65. Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret: Quartet for the end of empire
66. Churchill: Finest hoir
67. Chamberlain declares war
68. Mao proclaims the Republic
69. Lee de Forest:1939 World's Fair
70. Howard Carter:Tutankhamen
71. Dad & Dave
72. Edward VIII abdicates
73. Virginia Wolff
74. Albert Einstein on pacifism
75. Ghandi on pacifism
76. Bernard Shaw on pacifism
77. Hitler: germany is awake
78. War of the worlds: Orson Welles
79. Aviators: Jean Batten & Amelia Earhardt
80. Charles Kingsford Smith
81. ABC: 1932 Melbourne Cip
82. Einstein: e=mc2
83. Ernest Rutherford: atomic physics
84. Empire State Building opening
85. King Burraga: (Joe Anderson): Aboriginal rights
86. Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris
87. Don Bradman scores a century
88. Warren Harding wins the US election
89. Nellie Melba at Covent Garden
90. Sigmund Freud
91. Marconi 1915
92. Lady Margot Asquith: Outbreak of War
93. Concientous Objector: Alfred Lester
94. Marconi 1913
95. Ernest Shackleton
96. Marconi 1902
97. Marconi 1901
98. Morse Code 1
99. Morse Code 2
Other Genres:
- CLASSICAL: Contemporary
- SPOKEN WORD: With Music
- MOOD: INTELLECTUAL