Peter Knight, trumpet and laptop:

Wednesday 23 April, 7.30pm

Blank Tape presents @ Northcote Uniting Church

$12/10

Live sampling and processing of micro sound worlds created using the trumpet - stretched and squashed with Ableton Live.
A new solo project from acclaimed Melbourne composer and trumpeter, Peter Knight.

Peter began developing digital environments to extend his improvisatory practice during a recent composer’s residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada where the work was premiered. He has since performed solo at Melbourne venues including the Make It Up Club, and Mash Out.

Peter’s solo work continues, albeit tangentially, his preoccupation with space, understatement, and long form structure and draws inspiration from diverse sources.

Peter is well known for the eclecticism of his musical output. He is a highly regarded jazz performer and has toured extensively with his quartet whose second album All the Gravitation of Silence was released on the Jazzhead label in 2006. In addition to his quartet, Peter also leads the acclaimed cross-cultural ensemble, Way Out West (Footscray Station Newmarket 2003, Old Grooves for New Streets Jazzhead 2007), and the 5+2 Brass Ensemble. 5+2’s 2005 release, Invisible Cities and Other Works (Rufus Records) received excellent local and international reviews including an inclusion in New York’s Cadence Magazine as one of the top-ten releases of 2005/2006 confirming Peter’s growing reputation as one of Australia’s most creative composer/performers.
Peter has also composed chamber music and most recently was commissioned to write a piece for the Dead Horse Ensemble, which premiered at the Forum in Melbourne in February 2007. He has composed for theatre, for short films, and created sound installations. He is also the co-artistic director of art-sound company, Double Venturi, which presented The Current at Melbourne Town Hall in July 2006.
In addition, Peter has recorded and performed with Australian and international artists including: Erik Griswold’s ‘Wide Alley,’ Adam Simmons, Fiona Burnett, Adrian Sherriff’s Oynsemble, Hugh Fraser Quintet (Canada), Quinsin Nachoff (Canada), Nigel McLean, Grand Union Orchestra (UK), Allan Browne, Ren Walters, Giorgio Magnanensi (Italy), Stephen Magnusson, The Violent Femmes (USA), Spiderbait, and You Am I.
Peter holds a Masters of Music Performance (VCA) and is currently completing a doctorate at Queensland Conservatorium where he is on full scholarship. Peter’s work has also been supported by grants and awards from The Ian Potter Trust, Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, Alan C. Rose Trust, and The Myer Foundation. He was a recipient of the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, which took him to the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada) as artist in residence in October 2007. He lectures part-time at Victoria University and NMIT, and is on the board of the Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival.