‘BATARI’ CONTEMPORARY TAIKO ENSEMBLE - ‘PLATE TECTONICS’

National ‘Kultour’ Project 2004, Produced by Brisbane Ethnic Music & Arts Centre (BEMAC)

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12 - 13 Nov @ 8pm, Chapel off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel St, Prahran, VIC

‘Plate Tectonics’ is an experimental artistic envisioning of the past and future of art and culture, using principals of ancient Asian classic drama, embracing mask, movement and sound.

‘Plate Tectonics’ and its dynamism (the conflict between creation and destruction of Nature) is a process of endless circular movement of the plates of the Earth, whereby in the future it will mix into one continent again (predicted by scientists that in 100 million years time Australia will physically crash into Japan).

Improvisational sequences are interwoven with various traditional Japanese, Javanese and Balinese art principles as well as elements of Afro-Latin, Jazz and Western classical styles.

Batari recreate the landscape from Stone Age to Cyber Age using drums, gongs, bells, percussion, wind instruments, midi sampler percussion and computer generated equipment, to produce a powerful multimedia experience where acoustics, electronics and evocative imagery collide.

• Moto Niwa - concept/direction/choreography/Taiko Drums/percussion/installation
• Francis Gilfedder - woodwinds/movement/percussion
• Tom Mikula - Taiko Drums/percussion

Tics: $15 Presale, $20 Full / $17 Conc at the Door, MAV members $12

Bookings: (03) 8290 7011, Event information: (03) 9417 6777