Graeme Leak’s music has grown from a rich diversity of original activities, materials and performances spread across locations from traditional concert halls to tiny outback towns to international stages.
Graeme Leak is part of constellation in Melbourne.
He is a founding member of The Spaghetti Western Orchestra (previously The Ennio Morricone Experience), an ensemble that play classic Spag film scores in an original and theatrical way – it has toured Australia, China, the UK, Europe, New Zealand and the USA. He is also active as a composer and instrument builder. Recent works include Everything in Front of Me for Gondwana Choir and Synergy Percussion, Ringing the Changes for aerial bell-ringers (performed by Strange Fruit at the opening of the 2009 Melbourne Festival), and Exhibit B, a collection of works and installations for Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey’s Constellation project. In 2003 he built The Musical Fence in Winton (Qld), an acoustically amplified wire fence that is a popular tourist attraction. He has composed many large-scale outdoor pieces played on cars, boats and amplified logs (by woodchoppers). He loves sound.
