Cycology
Sat 17 March, 1pm & Sat 24 March, 11.30am . Ilott Chamber, Wellington Town Hall , Wakefield Street . Tickets $10.50 per person
World Premiere
Linsey Pollak, Australia
Out to the stage rides Australian musician and instrument maker Linsey Pollak with his brand new show Cycology. Linsey is world-renowned for making music from carrots, chairs and even blow-up frogs. His latest show Cycology creates music from a bicycle! Sounds are recorded live during the show with percussion, wind, string and surprise sounds from Linsey’s bike; who knows what could happen? A sellout performer at festivals around the world, Linsey’s exciting inventive musical creativity simply can’t be missed!! Link to video footage from past shows.
Artform: Linsey Pollak is a musician, composer and instrument maker....."Cycology" combines all these things with a dash of theatre and humour. Gear cables, bicycle pumps, inner tubes, wheel spokes and the bicycle frame are turned into musical instruments. Their sounds are recorded and mixed as you watch, to create exciting original compositions. The show runs over 50 minutes with no intervals. Whether you are 3, 33 or 93, you are sure to enjoy this show as Linsey takes you through the zany, past the expected, and on to new musical imaginings.
Linsey Pollak - For over 20 years Linsey has made an international reputation as a performer, musician-in-residence, musical director, instrument maker/inventor and composer. A life-altering experience was an eight-month stay in Macedonia , where he studied the Gaida (Macedonian bagpipes).
When he returned to Australia he founded the Multicultural Music Centre of West Australia and later created many multi-cultural music ensembles including the National Cross Cultural Ensemble Slivanje. Linsey has performed all around Australia and internationally and has recorded 25 albums.
He is also known for his solo music theatre shows such as The Art of Food, Knocking on Kevin’s Door and Playpen which have toured to Japan , Korea , Hong Kong , North America , Brazil and many European Festivals. He has also worked as a musical instrument maker for 30 years and has designed a number of new wind instruments and specialises in crafting woodwind instruments of Eastern Europe .
Linsey has a reputation for making and playing instruments made from rubber gloves, carrots, watering cans, chairs, brooms, bins, and other found objects. First developed in his solo show Bang it with a Fork and further in the acclaimed children’s show Out of the Frying Pan, this line of musical inventiveness has ultimately led him to also encompass modern digital technology and develop his solo shows Knocking on Kevin’s Door, Playpen and The Art of Food.
As a Composer and Performer he toured Out of the Frying Pan from Queensland (Out of the Box Festival, 1994) to Sydney Festival (1996) and then to the Sydney Opera House (1997). Bim...BamBoo!! a large scale outdoor environmental performance Linsey composed, premiered at the Woodford Festival in 1997 and was then featured at the Brisbane Festival in 1998.
Linsey’s work as Community Music advocate has taken him all over the country for the last 20 years working as Musician-in-residence in communities from Hobart to Broome. He has worked as Musical Director and Composer for theatre and dance companies such as Doppio Teatro and Dance North and performed with groups too numerous to mention.
Linsey’s ongoing obsession is to make music more accessible to the wider community through musical instrument making, performing and playing workshops.
Comments on Linsey Pollak:
"Linsey Pollak is one of Australia 's most brilliant and under-rated composer/musicians. He is wildly innovative in the use of instruments but never lets his experimentation get in the way of the musicality of a work." The Courier Mail, Brisbane
“He (Linsey) is famous Australia wide and has the fantastic ability to capture peoples imagination’s.” Music Live
“The unexpected is what Pollak…does so well.” The Courier Mail, Brisbane
“Pollak’s creativity shines…combining comedy and music making.” Hong Kong Standard
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