Collider

Rank #37 Melbourne, VIC, AU Jazz / New Music

About

Members: Kynan Robinson, Adam Simmons, Ronny Ferella, Jason Bunn, Andrea Keeble, Anita Hustas

Manager: Kynan Robinson/Adam Simmons

Bio: Brass meets strings melded together with drums creating the unique force that is Collider - an exploration in sound and composition that is as luxuriating as it is challenging, integrating strings and brass merging textures that is rarely heard in a jazz context.

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Our album 'Words' is now available on itunes https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/words/id600479378

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“With titles such as Blood, One Itch of My Finger and You're Dead and Soft Blood and Intuition, Robinson's songs have a decidedly McCarthy-esque sensibility before you even hear them. Then, within a few notes, they transport you to a lawless realm, the delicacy and harshness of which is conveyed in a meticulously realised soundscape. Nothing is wasted in the music; there is lots of silence and small sounds. I wanted it to [convey his idea of] the brutality and beauty of life always existing in the same moment.'' Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/notes-from-a-nightmare-20120817-24da8.html#ixzz23reuekRA”

— Liza Power, The Age

“Collider is a big-talking band. Horn players Adam Simmons and Kynan Robinson have lived musical lives of spontaneity and liberation, but with classical string players Andrea Keeble and Jason Bunn they're more apt to obsess over ''getting it right'' to teensy degrees of tuning, timing and timbre. I guess there's a sense of collision between different worlds. They're both about exploring fringes that can actually yield huge results. ”

— Michael Dwyer, The Age

“McCarthy’s writing is full of ideas about the fragility of life and the nonsense in the notion of the sanctity of life. He talks about the beauty and the ugliness in the same moment and also talks quite heavily on a supernatural and spiritual level. These are ideas that I’ve been thinking about for a long time but never been ready to deal with from an artistic sense myself.”

— Miriam Zolin, Jazz Planet

“This was really visceral music and its effect was felt physically. The combination of instruments provided a timbre-laden treat that would gladden the heart of a Tasmanian conservationist or an Orbost logger, or both.I loved the contributions of each instrument. I loved the percussive interludes and the way Ferella intervened with such sensitivity and minimalism. There were some absolutely entrancing standout solos — Robinson digging deep into the gravel and realising mid-solo he was breaking Ferella’s earlier appeal for quieter playing, Ronny Ferella taking the space to take us on a sublime journey of intricacy and introspection, Anita Hustas opening the final piece of the night with great presence, and Simmons on fire in slow-burn fashion that etched tenor notes into the dark room.”

— Roger Mitchell, ausjazz.net

“Kynan has a strong affinity and love for Cormac McCarthy’s work. Intellectually it seemed very well grounded, in that he had looked at McCarthy’s creative process and then took that into his own creative space. It wasn’t just that “this chapter made me feel this one thing” it was also about the act o f creativity Robinson was keen to be involved in the writers festival, but didn’t want to compromise his original ideas. ‘I don’t want people to think they’re going to come and hear a Cormac McCarthy work translated into music,’ he says. ‘I wanted to write something that reflected, or responded to how McCarthy’s writing made me feel and I didn’t want to lose that intent in this process.’”

— Miriam Zolin, Jazz Planet

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Mar 1

Uptown Jazz Cafe
Melbourne, VIC, AU | 8:00pm
Uptown Jazz Cafe
Melbourne, VIC, AU
Fri Mar 01 8:00pm
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Album launch for the bands debut album Words
2012
Aug 25

The Melbourne Recital C…
Melbourne, VIC, AU | 8:00pm
The Melbourne Recital Center
Melbourne, VIC, AU
Sat Aug 25, 2012 8:00pm
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"McCarthy's writing and the atmosphere he creates has a sparseness, detachment and tension and is always touched with a dry wit. He presents both the absolute beauty and absolute ugliness of existence, often within the same sentence." - Kynan Robinson Solo in Red, a new work by acclaimed Melbourne composer, Kynan Robinson, is a musical exploration of the sparseness and fragility of Cormac McCarthy's writing. With the novels Blood Meridian, Suttree and The Border Trilogy as inspiration, Robinson's composition is textured and dynamically complex, a hauntingly beautiful work. A unique fusion of words, music and images, Solo in Red will be performed by renowned Melbourne sextet Collider. Part of the Melbourne Writers Festival. "Kynan Robinson's new piece Solo in Red is both astoundingly beautiful and original. Setting out to capture the atmospheres of a Cormac McCarthy novel it does all that and more." - Vierre Magazine 2011
2012
Aug 24

The Melbourne Recital C…
Melbourne, VIC, AU | 8:00pm
The Melbourne Recital Center
Melbourne, VIC, AU
Fri Aug 24, 2012 8:00pm
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Part of Melbourne Writers festival Collider perform Kynan Robinsons stunning new work Solo In Red, inspired by the writings of Cormac McCarthy.
2012
Aug 24

The Melbourne Recital C…
Melbourne, VIC, AU | 6:00pm
The Melbourne Recital Center
Melbourne, VIC, AU
Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:00pm
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"McCarthy's writing and the atmosphere he creates has a sparseness, detachment and tension and is always touched with a dry wit. He presents both the absolute beauty and absolute ugliness of existence, often within the same sentence." - Kynan Robinson Solo in Red, a new work by acclaimed Melbourne composer, Kynan Robinson, is a musical exploration of the sparseness and fragility of Cormac McCarthy's writing. With the novels Blood Meridian, Suttree and The Border Trilogy as inspiration, Robinson's composition is textured and dynamically complex, a hauntingly beautiful work. A unique fusion of words, music and images, Solo in Red will be performed by renowned Melbourne sextet Collider. Part of the Melbourne Writers Festival. "Kynan Robinson's new piece Solo in Red is both astoundingly beautiful and original. Setting out to capture the atmospheres of a Cormac McCarthy novel it does all that and more." - Vierre Magazine 2011
2012
Apr 14

Northcote Uniting Church
Melbourne, VIC, AU | 7:30pm
Northcote Uniting Church
Melbourne, VIC, AU
Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:30pm
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