Splinter Orchestra A radically inclusive large-scale improvisation orchestra

Splinter Magic

13-14 July

2019

A Winter Festival with Splinter Orchestra and Friends


Splinter Orchestra curated a 2-day experimental music festival at Tempe Jets, July 13th-14th 2019.

Splinter Magic poster

Short documentary, filmed and edited by Barbara Guzman Galeb.

Original description and program:

Splinter Orchestra has always been an amorphous being; its shifting roster shaping the resultant music. Every Sunday sees a different subset of Splinter join together to play; this gathering is a weekly refuge to bond, explore and create something that could be called magical.

Splinter Magic is a two day festival in July featuring subsets of Splinter and Spl-interlopers joining regular members. This event also includes the ‘splintstallation’; Splinter Orchestra’s mechanised ghost form. We celebrate the wider Splinter community in this titillating banquet of Sydney improvised music.

SATURDAY JULY 13th

Session I ::: 1:30pm

  • Bonnie Stewart, Romy Caen & Jim Denley
  • Prophets: Enactment of Adventure on the Stylefree Planet
  • Melanie Eden
  • Splinter Orchestra + Splintstallations
  • 5:00 PM EARLY DINNER with music by the Wrap-master Chefs
  • BYO food to share + there’ll be some hearty home-cooked food by donation

Session II ::: 6:30 PM

  • Acknowledgement of Country with Jahmarley
  • Unfolding/Overlay (Nick Ashwood + Rhys Mottley)
  • Couch (Laura Altman + Low Flung)
  • Baptism (Solly Frank and Charlie Sundborn)
  • Tony Osborne solo
  • Massed Single Reedists
  • lo-flatlander (Barbara Guzman Galeb + Benjamin Riley)
  • + Splintstallations

SUNDAY JULY 14th

Session III ::: 1pm

  • Performature: Performateur (WeiZen Ho + tbc)
  • Playable Glass: Live glass blowing by Mark Elliot, with musicians Clara Pitt, Johannes MacDonald, Josephine Macken and Jim Denley
  • 180deg (Amanda Stewart, Nick Ashwood + Jim Denley - “Submental” Album LAUNCH)
  • Joshua Winestock + Johannes MacDonald
  • Cor Fuhler + Melanie Herbert + Clare Cooper
  • Disco Inferno (Romy Caen + Peter Farrar)
  • + Splintstallations

Tempe Jets, 1 Holbeach Ave, Tempe NSW 2044

Tickets available at the door:

  • 1 session = $15 / $10
  • 2 sessions = $25 / $15
  • 3 sessions = $40 / $25

Splinter Orchestra acknowledges that this event takes place on stolen land belonging to the Gadigal people of the Eora nation.