Dec 5 Claire Cross : Sleep Cycle

Opening Set: Loom (Ashley Ballat and Ollie Cox)

Evening show 7.30PM

The Jazzlab Monday Dec 5 doors 7pm Show 7.30pm

Tickets HERE $30/25 Bookings essential

Claire Cross: Sleep Cycle

 Claire Cross is an award-winning electric bassist and composer who has established herself as an exciting and versatile performer. Her compositional work focuses on creating immersive and evocative worlds, drawing on influences across folk, minimalism and jazz, to create deeply textured and transfixing landscapes.

For this performance, graphs of brain waves taken during the various phases of sleep inform a score for an improvising ensemble of trumpet, voice, bass, drums, and synth. Through sound, the ensemble will explore the radical act of self-care in an age of hyper-productivity – the act of sleep.

Featuring:
Claire Cross - Bass/Effects
Merinda Dias-Jayasinha - Voice/Effects

Reuben Lewis - Trumpet/Synth/Effects
Kyrie Anderson - Drums

LOOM

 Ashley was handpicked by Dave Douglas to put together a project for the international Festival Of New Trumpet music in August 2022, which is where this ensemble 'LOOM' premiered their first work. Ashley and Ollie have formed a strong musical connection over the past few years, bound by their shared passion for timbre, texture, and playfulness within improvisation. Their set will weave together ethereal soundscapes, with percussive anthills and waves of wailing distortion. 

Ashley Ballat is an up-and-coming artist working as a trumpet player and composer in Melbourne, Australia. Her sound is distinguished by sensitive improvisation that builds upon sound manipulation, thoughtful melody, textures, and the collision of eclectic musical genres. After recently graduating from the Sir Zelman School of Music (Monash University), Ashley is now pursuing a career of performing original music of her own and others.

Ollie Cox is a Melbourne-based drummer, percussionist, improviser and composer. His broad textural palette, sensitivity and creativity at the drum kit has led to him working with some of Melbourne’s finest musical artists. Ollie blends his background as a jazz drummer with explorations in indie folk, art rock and experimental music. In 2021 he completed his Bachelor of Music (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts, investigating composition for electroacoustic found-objects, guided by his studies with Kate Neal and Eli Keszler.