WHACKollective

5-7 April 2024

World Premiere works by Travers K. Eira and Bridget Bourne, with additional works by Aditya Ryan Bhat and Oscar Tudge.

In “islands” by composer-linguist K. Travers Eira, our four musicians inhabit and perform in different, musical ‘islands’. Within these contrasting percussive sound worlds, each player explores their physical and timbral environment, finding connections to another’s territory, and enabling movement between them.

Presented by the Shepparton Festival

17 June 2023

The Mission To Seafarers, Norla Dome

A concert of contemporary percussion and string music that engages with current environmental issues faced in Australia, including 3 world premieres by Ceridwen McCooey, Xiaole Zhan, and Oscar Tudge.

Supported by the Wattle Fellowship

25 May 2023

Melbourne Recital Centre

WHACKollective's sell-out show at the Melbourne Recital Centre was a deep dive into the captivating percussive sound-worlds of three international composers: Viet Cuong (VN/US); Tonia Ko (HK/US); and Sarah Nemtsov (DE).

14 October 2023

Innovative chamber ensembles Choral Edge and WHACKollective combined forces in a dazzling interplay of voice and percussion. "Shrewd Awakenings" dances around themes of enlightenment, consciousness, life and death, and the eruption of dormant ideas. Working with a vast palette of vocal and instrumental tone colours, the two ensembles conjure up a technicolour world and mind-state that screams AWAKE!

29 July 2022

Hanson Dyer Hall

WHACKollective’s sold-out debut full-length concert: virtuosic and visually compelling contemporary percussion works, featuring 4 world premieres, including a commission from Anne Hsuyin.

5 May 2022

Hanson Dyer Hall

WHACKollective performs spatialised bass drum quartet Qilyaun by John Luther Adams at black-out concert ‘In The Dark’