Answered by: Justin Ashworth
Describe your show in a tweet? Genre-defying Melbourne band Glasfrosch play Terry Riley’s seminal minimalist work In C with 20 guest musicians, in the fabulous Howler band room.
In a fantasy world who would you be the love child of and why? Glasfrosch is an unapologetically fantastical combination of disparate sound cultures, once astutely reviewed as “trans-ethnic”. The thing is to distil the ingredients until they become irrelevant. DNA aside, the work has its own living potential.
Why did you decide to do Fringe 2014? We’ve always lived on the fringe of the local scene, and we’re always looking at ways to push things further outside our comfort zone. Fringe is an excuse, but also a focal point for new ideas and adventures. Music nowadays is often reduced to discussions of successful commerce, but we’re mostly interested in new ways of making and presenting. Being the 50th anniversary of Riley’s In C – such an iconic composition – Fringe is the right setting for this show.
Tell us a bit about the creative team working on this project? Glasfrosch & Friends Play “In C” was developed to expand on the diversity of the group and to work alongside some of our favourite players. Glasfrosch is (usually) a three-piece band, exploring music through sound experimentation, pop art, jazz, cinema, noise, dance and punk. Glasfrosch is about change and surprise; In C is a work that both challenges and revels in these themes.
Glasfrosch & Friends Play in C
Melbourne Fringe Festival, 28 Sep, Howler
