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David Chesworth Ensemble at the Bang on a Can Marathon NY

"It's an odd combination. The trombone blares, pianos rumble and the vibraphone plinks. Rousing themes are accompanied by a grumbling undertow or abruptly abandoned, while the piano bumbles like a bee at a windowpane; a searing lament is absorbed by the dinky tinkling of the music box it emerges from. The net effect is strangely euphonious."
The Wire, UK

Performing the music of David Chesworth and others, the David Chesworth Ensemble has forged it's own musical path winning over audiences around the world with its unique, evocative music.

The David Chesworth Ensemble creates a vast soundscape of orchestral, exotic instruments and electronics in a feast of striking, scraping, blowing, shaking, pushing, pulling and plucking.

From his early experimental beginnings with seminal post-punk outfit Essendon Airport, David Chesworth has become one of Australia's key composers and sound artist. His distinctive compositions and installations have been performed and exhibited extensively in Australia and throughout the world. Major festivals include Ars Electronica, Festival D'Automne de Paris, Edinburgh Festival, Melbourne and Adelaide Festivals, Sydney Biennale and BAM Next Wave Festival New York.

"Volume and sonic density builds and boils over" Newsday, New York

photo: Caryn Havlik, Ken Thomson