Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet

Australian String Quartet
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Learn about the incredible world of string quartet music through the unique and intimate perspective of Australian String Quartet musicians Dale Barltrop and Francesca Hiew (violins), Chris Cartlidge (viola) and Michael Dahlenburg (cello). Each episode of Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet focuses on a particular work of the canon, with ASQ musicians chatting candidly about their experience of learning, rehearsing and performing the works whilst touring the country and the world. Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet is hosted by Sam Jozeps, Creative Producer of the ASQ. Episodes include musical excerpts of the featured works along with other works by their composers, as well as a sampler track: a newly commissioned work created specifically for each episode, which takes samples from the title work to create a new, contemporary interpretation.

Episodes

  1. Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in B minor, Op.33 No.1

    JUL 8

    Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in B minor, Op.33 No.1

    Who can we credit as the founder of the string quartet? And which composer would Chris most like to have dinner with?  Discover all this and more as ASQ musicians Dale, Francesca, Chris and Michael, talk about Haydn’s incredible legacy in the context of his String Quartet in B minor, Opus 33 Number 1. Featuring Australian String Quartet musicians:  Dale Barltrop | violin Francesca Hiew | violin Chris Cartlidge | viola Michael Dahlenburg | cello Sam Jozeps | host Title music produced by Adam Page Sampler track by coldhands Edited and produced by Sam Jozeps Narration recorded by Mitre Khammash Interviews recorded on tour on Kaurna Country, Adelaide, SA Produced on Kaurna Country at the University of Adelaide, SA Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet is generously supported by the Thyne Reid Foundation. For every episode of Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet, we commission and feature a new piece of music created with samples from that episode's subject. This episode's sampler was created by Coldhands: Coldhands is a genre-bending artist from Adelaide, South Australia, Kaurna Country, making waves in the dance music scene. His music is a delightful blend of house beats with a touch of jazz, intertwined with contemporary disco elements. Triple J Radio’s Jerry Agbinya called Coldhands. “One of my favourite finds on Triple J Unearthed...” The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) is Australia’s pre-eminent organisation dedicated to string quartet music and Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music. More information about this podcast via www.asq.com.au/podcast Learn more about the Australian String Quartet at ww.asq.com.au Listen to Australian String Quartet recordings via your streaming platform of choice, and discover a world of wonderful live performance films and inspiring video content via www.asq.com.au/on-demand Follow us on Facebook, Instagram Spotify Youtube

    27 min
  2. Benjamin Britten, String Quartet No.2 in C Major, Op.36

    JUL 8

    Benjamin Britten, String Quartet No.2 in C Major, Op.36

    What fuelled Britten’s art-making, and how did he use the string quartet to express his most personal thoughts? Australian String Quartet musicians Dale, Francesca, Chris and Michael talk about Britten and how he might have used his lived experience to create utterly unique soundworlds. Featuring Australian String Quartet musicians:  Dale Barltrop | violin Francesca Hiew | violin Chris Cartlidge | viola Michael Dahlenburg | cello Sam Jozeps | host Title music produced by Adam Page Sampler track by Bob Jarvis Edited and produced by Sam Jozeps Narration recorded by Mitre Khammash Interviews recorded on tour on Gadigal Country, Sydney, NSW Produced on Kaurna Country at the University of Adelaide, SA Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet is generously supported by the Thyne Reid Foundation. This episode's sampler was created by Bob Jarvis. Bob creates interactive and temporal artworks that integrate music, animation, code, and text. Out of their experimental process emerge themes of intermodality, colour, polyrhythm, flight, ontology, belief, and kinaesthetics.   Selected creative output includes Belief System, a 120-channel spatial audio installation touring internationally with Ranters Theatre, and shortlisted for The Blake Art Prize; Luminesce, a live, audio-visual collaboration with vocalist Gian Slater which won The International Visual Music Award in Frankfurt in 2015; and the practice-led research work Aileron One, a world-first integration of performance technology and full-sized aircraft enabling music to be performed via the expressive medium of gliding flight.   Alongside their creative output Bob works as Director of Technology for Melbourne interactive arts company Playable Streets, contributes to open source software projects, lectures at several universities, and consults as a certified trainer in the Max multimedia programming environment.  "In approaching the sound design, one moment of the quartet reminded me strongly of an aeolian harp - a stringed instrument played by wind.  I had been exploring weather-powered instruments recently and used this as a thematic tie for the selection of sonic elements: water, bird song, wind chimes.  I imagine the old upright piano as having been subjected to these same elements, perhaps having been left in a paddock for a few years." The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) is Australia’s pre-eminent organisation dedicated to string quartet music and Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music. More information about this podcast via www.asq.com.au/podcast Learn more about the Australian String Quartet at ww.asq.com.au Listen to Australian String Quartet recordings via your streaming platform of choice, and discover a world of wonderful live performance films and inspiring video content via www.asq.com.au/on-demand Follow us on Facebook, Instagram Spotify Youtube

    30 min
  3. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, String Quartet in D Major, Op.11 No.1

    JUL 8

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, String Quartet in D Major, Op.11 No.1

    Bridging cultural divides: how did Tchaikovsky write music that appealed to everyone? ASQ musicians dive deep into Tchaikovsky’s first string quartet. Hear from Australian String Quartet musicians Dale, Francesca, Chris and Michael and gain their insights into Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his expansive String Quartet in D Major Op.11 No.1. Featuring Australian String Quartet musicians:  Dale Barltrop | violin Francesca Hiew | violin Chris Cartlidge | viola Michael Dahlenburg | cello Sam Jozeps | host Title music produced by Adam Page Sampler track by Jian Liew Edited and produced by Sam Jozeps Narration recorded by Mitre Khammash Interviews recorded on tour on Whadjuk Country, Perth, WA Produced on Kaurna Country at the University of Adelaide, SA Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet is generously supported by the Thyne Reid Foundation. For every episode of Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet, we commission and feature a new piece of music created with samples from that episode's subject.  This episode's sampler was created by Jian Liew, an Australian musician and record producer. Liew had an early introduction to music, playing the drums and spending his weekends sampling his mothers vinyl and CD collection throughout his early teenage years. It was through this that Liew began to immerse himself in music. Guitar arpeggios, Synthesiser patterns and his own vocals are a constant theme in his sound, which is primarily electronic and experimental in nature, however finds it footing and origins in Hip-Hop, Folk and Pop music. Liew sees music as the platform through which he feels most comfortable. The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) is Australia’s pre-eminent organisation dedicated to string quartet music and Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music. More information about this podcast via www.asq.com.au/podcast Learn more about the Australian String Quartet at ww.asq.com.au Listen to Australian String Quartet recordings via your streaming platform of choice, and discover a world of wonderful live performance films and inspiring video content via www.asq.com.au/on-demand Follow us on Facebook, Instagram Spotify Youtube

    24 min
  4. Robert Schumann, String Quartet in A Major, Op.41 No.3

    JUL 8

    Robert Schumann, String Quartet in A Major, Op.41 No.3

    Can music be more than a mere artistic expression? Can it in fact… be?   Australian String Quartet’s Dale, Francesca, Chris and Michael talk about Robert Schumann, how he loved, and what went into his stunning String Quartet in A Major, Op.41 No.3. Discover all this and more as Australian String Quartet musicians Dale, Francesca, Chris and Michael talk about Ludwig van Beethoven’s incredible contribution in the context of his String Quartet No.9 in C Major, Op.59 No.3, Razumovsky. Featuring Australian String Quartet musicians:  Dale Barltrop | violin Francesca Hiew | violin Chris Cartlidge | viola Michael Dahlenburg | cello Sam Jozeps | host Title music produced by Adam Page Sampler track by Jason Sweeney Edited and produced by Sam Jozeps Narration recorded by Mitre Khammash Interviews recorded on tour on nipaluna Coutry, Hobart, Tas Produced on Kaurna Country at the University of Adelaide, SA Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet is generously supported by the Thyne Reid Foundation. For every episode of Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet, we commission and feature a new piece of music created with samples from that episode's subject.  This episode's sampler was created by Jason Sweeney (he/him), a composer, musician and filmmaker based on Kaurna Yarta / Adelaide. Since 2003 Jason has collaborated with leading arts companies (State Theatre Company SA, Restless Dance Theatre, Patch Theatre, Chunky Move, Force Majeure, Closer Productions, Performance Space, Arts House, pvi collective, Theatre Republic) and internationally (SPILL Festival, SOIT, Banff Centre). Over the last decade Jason created a trilogy of sound-based works focused on quietness, including Stereopublic which won a TED Prize (City2.0, 2013), Silent Type (2014) and the 2016 research odyssey, Quiet Ecology. In 2022-2023 he made new scores for ANTIGONE (State Theatre Company SA) and Astrid Pill’s ‘I Hide In Bathrooms’. In 2024 he released the song cycle called ‘Ageism’. In 2024 he composed for Rebecca Meston's 'Hits', Theatre Republic's 'The Almighty Sometimes', Cirkidz 'Stacks On' and was the co-curator of Adhocracy at Vitalstatistix. He releases music internationally under the names Panoptique Electrical and Sweeney. "When asked to make an ambient electronic music response that integrates ASQ's recording of Schumann’s String Quartet in A major Op.41 No.3 I began by listening for the swells and waves of notes and chords that would swim beautifully alongside this analogue synth loop. I took elements of the ASQ recording and transposed, pitch shifted, time-stretched and re-sampled various moments out of the full 20 minutes of Schumann and c The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) is Australia’s pre-eminent organisation dedicated to string quartet music and Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music. More information about this podcast via www.asq.com.au/podcast Learn more about the Australian String Quartet at ww.asq.com.au Listen to Australian String Quartet recordings via your streaming platform of choice, and discover a world of wonderful live performance films and inspiring video content via www.asq.com.au/on-demand Follow us on Facebook, Instagram Spotify Youtube

    22 min
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No.9 in C Major, Op.59 No.3, Razumovsky

    JUL 8

    Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No.9 in C Major, Op.59 No.3, Razumovsky

    How does Beethoven show us how to be human? And even after 250 years, what is it about his music that attracts us so much? Discover all this and more as Australian String Quartet musicians Dale, Francesca, Chris and Michael talk about Ludwig van Beethoven’s incredible contribution in the context of his String Quartet No.9 in C Major, Op.59 No.3, Razumovsky. Featuring Australian String Quartet musicians:  Dale Barltrop | violin Francesca Hiew | violin Chris Cartlidge | viola Michael Dahlenburg | cello Sam Jozeps | host Title music produced by Adam Page Sampler track by Belinda Gehlert Edited and produced by Sam Jozeps Narration recorded by Mitre Khammash Interviews recorded on Ngunnawal Country, Canberra, ACT Produced on Kaurna Country at the University of Adelaide, SA Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet is generously supported by the Thyne Reid Foundation For every episode of Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet, we commission and feature a new piece of music created with samples from that episode's subject.  This episode's sampler was created by Belinda Gehlert, a violinist, violist and composer whose professional creative practice spans two decades. Since 2005 Belinda has been writing chamber music, orchestral music and incidental music for the stage and screen. Belinda was first violinist and composing member of the Australian Art Music and Ruby Award winning, Adelaide-based Zephyr Quartet for 15 years. Belinda now enjoys a vibrant performing career as a freelance violinist and violist in chamber ensembles, theatre and world music bands. Belinda is a regular freelance musician with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. "It feels slightly sacrilegious to re arrange Beethoven so I really wanted to stay true to his colour palette and imagine what this quartet might sound like if you heard it in a dream or as a soundtrack to a silent film.  I introduced a few electronic delay and reverb effects to morph some of the ASQ samples as well as adding extra strings and piano, essentially giving the track the sound of a piano quartet.  The diminished harmony at the opening of the quartet is astonishing and I really enjoyed working with that part in particular." The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) is Australia’s pre-eminent organisation dedicated to string quartet music and Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music. More information about this podcast via www.asq.com.au/podcast Learn more about the Australian String Quartet at ww.asq.com.au Listen to Australian String Quartet recordings via your streaming platform of choice, and discover a world of wonderful live performance films and inspiring video content via www.asq.com.au/on-demand Follow us on Facebook, Instagram Spotify Youtube

    27 min
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Learn about the incredible world of string quartet music through the unique and intimate perspective of Australian String Quartet musicians Dale Barltrop and Francesca Hiew (violins), Chris Cartlidge (viola) and Michael Dahlenburg (cello). Each episode of Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet focuses on a particular work of the canon, with ASQ musicians chatting candidly about their experience of learning, rehearsing and performing the works whilst touring the country and the world. Inner Voices with the Australian String Quartet is hosted by Sam Jozeps, Creative Producer of the ASQ. Episodes include musical excerpts of the featured works along with other works by their composers, as well as a sampler track: a newly commissioned work created specifically for each episode, which takes samples from the title work to create a new, contemporary interpretation.

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