re-sound
re-sound has established itself as one of Australia's most progressive contemporary music ensembles. Its thought-provoking, challenging and dynamic performances explore the sounds of our time across a wide range of genres, styles, and performance contexts.
re-sound formed in Melbourne in 1996 with the intention of creating a performance platform for contemporary sound and music. As well as reinterpreting works of the 20th and 21st centuries, re-sound's collaborations with Melbourne sound artists, computer musicians and composers have generated a great deal of new local work.
Diverse cultures, aesthetics, media, techniques and technologies (hard and soft) crowd the current new-arts terrain, re-sound responds flexibly to this information-rich environment by engaging with and presenting sound in a number of contexts.
re-sound is featured on the following titles
Quiet on the Bridge
Like the group's earlier releases, this disc ranges across electronic and electro-acoustic music, contemporary chamber writing, interactive computer pieces, open indeterminate works and improvisation.
Ephemeral Densities
ephemeral densities is re-sound's third CD, devoted to new Australian work by members Steve Adam, Melanie Chilianis, Paul Moulatlet and Thomas Reiner. It brings together contemporary chamber writing, computer music and popular electronic idioms.
In C
Melbourne ensemble re-sound gives Terry Riley's minimalist landmark In C its first electroacoustic reading, folding chamber forces into beats, sequences and electric bass and guitar.
The Flowers
All works on this recording are Australian compositions exploring the aesthetics of contemporary art music. The disc offers a fresh perspective on Australian music-making through starkly varied new pieces.
re-sound
re-sound's first, self-titled album gathers chamber works by John Cage and five Australian composers – Brendan Colbert, Paul Moulatlet, Ken Murray, Thomas Reiner and Harvey Sollberger – in a programme of late twentieth-century sound.
re-sound also appears on
Conversations
The recording of Conversations is an outcome of a research project at Monash University’s School of Music. Six composers worked with performers to shape this electro-acoustic piece, joining team-based composition, contemporary performance practice, and music technology.
Members of re-sound
Thomas Reiner
Artistic Director of the ensemble re-sound, Thomas Reiner has received numerous awards for his compositions, including second prize in the International Witold Lutosławski Composers' Competition for Two Movements for Orchestra, the Dorian Le Gallienne Award, and the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award.
Brea Acton
Brea Acton is a composer and vocalist working in contemporary chamber, electronic and electroacoustic music.
Melanie Chilianis
Melanie Chilianis is an Australian flautist and composer whose electroacoustic and acoustic work moves between performance, installation and recorded sound.
Helen Eadie
Helen Eadie performs with Melbourne ensemble re-sound on electroacoustic and contemporary chamber music that folds acoustic playing into beats, computer processing and site-recorded sound. Their In C is slick, hypnotic and built for the long haul.
Catherine Hocking
Catherine Hocking is a saxophonist with the Melbourne contemporary music ensemble re-sound. Her work with the group sits in electroacoustic chamber music and live electronic performance.
Paul Moulatlet
Paul Moulatlet is a Melbourne-based Australian composer of contemporary chamber and electro-acoustic music. His works have been performed across Australia and in England, Italy, Norway and the USA.
Ken Murray
Ken Murray (b. 1968) is a Melbourne guitarist and composer working across classical and electric guitar in contemporary chamber music.
Paul Todd
Paul Todd's bass, B flat and E flat clarinets cut through re-sound's contemporary chamber music, where acoustic lines meet computer processing, night-club energy and new Australian scores.