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BOLT ENSEMBLE
http://www.boltensemble.org
Belinda Woods: Flute
Adam Simmons: Woodwinds/Saxophone/Shakuhachi
Andrea Keeble: Violin
James Hullick: Voice/Machines/Electronics
with guest Swiss musicians:
Moritz Müllenbach: Cello
Aleksander Gabrys: Double Bass
Bastian Pfefferli: Percussion
The BOLT Ensemble is an Australian ensemble dedicated to performing the music and sonic art projects of James Hullick and is auspiced by JOLT Arts Inc. The ensemble was formed in 2004 and has worked extensively with technology and on community development projects. The line-up of musicians for the ensemble changes from project to project, but core ensemble members include: Timothy Phillips (conductor) Peter Neville (percussion), Adam Simmons (sax and woodwinds), Martin Mackerras, (clarinet), Karen Heath (bass clarinet) Belinda Woods (flute), Andrea Keeble (violin), Jason Bunn (viola), Caerwen Martin (Cello) and Anita Hustas (double bass). Three of the ensemble's members are performing for the Terrains Swiss Australian Sonic Festival, with three guest artists from Switzerland joining the ensemble for the festival.
Recently BOLT presented the SONIC GOTHICA electo-acoustic chamber orchestra concerts (December 2009) at Forty Five Downstairs and performed in The NIS (March 2009) – a multimedia extravaganza featuring professional and non-professional artists. In The NIS musicians worked robotic machinery and real time interactive video scores.
The following review from Liquid Architecture in 2005 gives an indication of the technological specialisations of BOLT:
“The Sunday evening performance at the North Melbourne Town Hall was presented in impressive 16 speaker surround sound, with the performers in the middle of the space and the audience divided into 2 blocks facing each other. James Hullick and Ensemble BOLT presented a composition for various instruments, vocalists and soundscape. The piece had a radiophonic feel, as acoustic instrumental explorations skittered around the room, accompanied by barely discernible voices, snippets of text floating to the surface above surging field recording atmospherics. This nicely crafted and spatialised piece took on an even more impressive dimension, when at the conclusion the stage curtain opened to reveal the musicians and actors who had in fact been performing live.”?Gail Priest, Realtime Magazine (regarding the work “the whiteness” 2005)
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