James Rushford and Joe Talia are a Melbourne-based duo of national and international renown. Performing chiefly on viola, piano, drums and percussion, the duo creates ecstatic and terrifying environments that play with the very limits of the instruments' capabilities. At times static, at times fragmented, the brooding nature of their work loosely references classical Spectralism, avant-garde improvisation and musique concrète, with a bold approach to performance and recording.
30.06.2011 MELBOURNE Concert @ 3RRR Performance SpaceTheir upcoming record, Paper Fault Line, is a through-composed tour-de-force of instrumental concrète, blistering noise and contemporary classical virtuosity. The duo's members have synthesized their rigorous training in improvisation, audio engineering and composition, to assemble a collection of work highly distinctive from, and more varied than, their first audio publication (Palisades, Sabbatical Records 2009). Meticulously recorded and mixed by Joe Talia in Melbourne, with additional recording at WORM (Rotterdam), the duo invited experimental luminary Anthony Pateras to collaborate on Paper Fault Line, expanding the sonic terrain with his Doepfer A-100.
Aside from the duo's regular performances, its members regularly collaborate with musicians including Oren Ambarchi (appearing on his upcoming solo record), Marco Fusinato, Steve Heather, Phill Niblock, Clayton Thomas, Jon Rose and Robin Fox.Rushford and Talia have individually performed at various worldwide festivals such as Moers (Moers), Mono (Brisbane), Now Now (Sydney), Audio Art (Krakow), The Melbourne international Arts Festival and the Melbourne International Biennale of Exploratory Music. They have also toured Europe multiple times, performing separately and together at venues such as Instants Chavires (Montreuil), Cave 12 (Geneva), Amann (Vienna), STEIM (Amsterdam), Soopa (Portugal) and NBI (Berlin).
Rushford and Talia's other projects have been documented on labels such as Remote Control, JazzHead, Cajid Media, Pogus and Sabbatical.
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