Jason Noble
Jason Noble's clarinet threads through contemporary Australian chamber music, answering new vocal scores and living instrumental works with clear colour, agile line and a chamber player's quick ear for blend and text.
On Halcyon's Kingfisher commissions he sits among flute, cello and percussion as twenty-one short pieces turn on friendship, calm seas and bright birdsong, the woodwind multi-instrument colour folding around two voices in music that can be rhapsodic, reflective or sharply etched. In Andrew Schultz's chamber songs the same clarinet helps carry word-painting, cross-rhythms and sudden shifts from tenderness to raw heat, part of a tight band built around the two singers. As clarinetist with Ensemble Offspring he belongs to a core of players who chase experimental, cross-artform programmes and the next Australian score, keeping the instrument alert inside music that refuses a single genre.
Jason Noble appears on
Uncovered Ground
This first collection of concert works by Felicity Wilcox gathers the cream of her chamber music from 2014 to 2018. It opens with the celebrated bass clarinet solo People of this Place, written for Jason Noble, and includes commissions for Ensemble Offspring, Ironwood and the Australia Ensemble, plus a movement from her first string quartet.
Clairaudient
This is percussionist Claire Edwardes’ fifth CD. Clairaudience is clear hearing, or the ability to perceive sound from outside sources, often in the spirit world. Psychics who are clairaudient hear voices, sounds or music that are not audible to the normal ear.
Jason Noble is a member of
Ensemble Offspring
Ensemble Offspring are Sydney’s musical mavericks, uniting innovative Australian instrumentalists with a broad collective of collaborators to champion the music of tomorrow. Together we explore new ideas through living music that leaps across art form.