Performed by Max Richter, Executive Producer Yulia Mahr, American Contemporary Music Ensemble featuring Grace Davidson
Hailed as one of the most influential composers of his generation, Max Richter presents his record-breaking eight-hour, 31-track Sleep album in full for the first time in front an Australian audience.
From 11.30pm until 7.30am composer Max Richter, along with the same musicians who recorded the album for Deutsche Grammophon (New York’s American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) and British soprano Grace Davidson) perform in an overnight experiment where fewer than 200 people ‘hibernate’ in an intimate, harbour-view setting exclusive to Vivid LIVE.
Conceived in consultation with famed neuroscientist David Eagleman, Richter has created 'a personal lullaby for a frenetic world... a manifesto for a slower pace of existence'. Unfurling with glacial transitions between Arvo Pärt-like piano, string quintet, Eno-esque drones and wordless vocals, this monumental cradle song has topped classical charts and questions cultural constructs between music and consciousness.
Coinciding as it does with the renewed interest in durational works within the fine art community, Richter says: “This isn’t something new in music, it goes back to Cage, Terry Riley, and LaMonte Young,� and it’s coming around again partly as a reaction to our speeded-up lives – we are all in need of a pause button.”
Strongly influenced by Gustav Mahler's symphonic classics, Sleep touches Richter's heartbroken melodicism and sense of adventure; most recently heard in his celebrated re-work of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
An innovative voice in a contemporary-classical movement alongside Opera House alumni Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds and Ludovico Einaudi, the 50-year-old German-British composer only made his Australian debut in 2014 – a dozen years on from his breakthrough album Memoryhouse. Now returning with a performance that dissolves centuries of artist-audience boundaries, Max Richter invites us to watch, listen and wander into his ingenious nightlife of sound.
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Australian Premiere, Sydney Only
03 Jun 11:30pm, Joan Sutherland Theatre Northern Foyer. $99, $195, $350
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04 Jun 11:30pm, Joan Sutherland Theatre Northern Foyer. $99, $195, $350
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Performed by Max Richter, Executive Producer Yulia Mahr, American Contemporary Music Ensemble featuring Grace Davidson
Hailed as one of the most influential composers of his generation, Max Richter presents his record-breaking eight-hour, 31-track Sleep album in full for the first time in front an Australian audience.
From 11.30pm until 7.30am composer Max Richter, along with the same musicians who recorded the album for Deutsche Grammophon (New York’s American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) and British soprano Grace Davidson) perform in an overnight experiment where fewer than 200 people ‘hibernate’ in an intimate, harbour-view setting exclusive to Vivid LIVE.
Conceived in consultation with famed neuroscientist David Eagleman, Richter has created 'a personal lullaby for a frenetic world... a manifesto for a slower pace of existence'. Unfurling with glacial transitions between Arvo Pärt-like piano, string quintet, Eno-esque drones and wordless vocals, this monumental cradle song has topped classical charts and questions cultural constructs between music and consciousness.
Coinciding as it does with the renewed interest in durational works within the fine art community, Richter says: “This isn’t something new in music, it goes back to Cage, Terry Riley, and LaMonte Young,� and it’s coming around again partly as a reaction to our speeded-up lives – we are all in need of a pause button.”
Strongly influenced by Gustav Mahler's symphonic classics, Sleep touches Richter's heartbroken melodicism and sense of adventure; most recently heard in his celebrated re-work of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
An innovative voice in a contemporary-classical movement alongside Opera House alumni Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds and Ludovico Einaudi, the 50-year-old German-British composer only made his Australian debut in 2014 – a dozen years on from his breakthrough album Memoryhouse. Now returning with a performance that dissolves centuries of artist-audience boundaries, Max Richter invites us to watch, listen and wander into his ingenious nightlife of sound.
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Tickets:
$350 | Joan Sutherland Theatre Northern Foyer | Full Visibility [Ref Image 3, 5]
$195 | Joan Sutherland Theatre Northern Foyer | Restricted View [Ref Image 2]
$99 | Utzon Room | Listening Only (Music & Visuals Streamed In) [Ref Image 4]
Credits:
Max Richter – Music Director, Pianist
Executive Producer - Yulia Mahr
American Contemporary Music Ensemble:
Grace Davidson – Soprano
Benjamin Russell – Violin,
Yuki Numata Resnick – Violin
Caleb Burhans – Viola
Clarice Jensen – Cello
Brian Snow – Cello
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