Rubiks Collective performs a feast of works from some of the world’s most impressive innovators in contemporary music. Suzanne Farrin’s The Stimulus of Loss explores the unique and haunting sounds of the ondes Martenot (early electronic instrument) combined with ‘glissando headjoint’ (a modified flute headjoint that mimics the human voice). Rubiks’s virtuosic playfulness comes to the fore in Jessie Marino’s The Whale Is a Capital Fish, a celebration of the ritual absurdity and technical mastery exhibited in everyday activities. Capping this off are new Australian works from Sydney’s trailblazing Alice Chance and the winner of Rubiks’s 2019 Pythia Prize.

Alice Chance New Work
Suzanne Farrin The stimulus of loss
Jessie Marino The whale is a capital fish (new arrangement)**^
2019 Pythia Winner New Work**^

* Australian premiere
** World Premiere
^ Rubiks Commission

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID 19