Trigger Happy 'Visualised'
For this South Australia premiere, watch drummer and instrument inventor Alon Ilsar conduct sound and light, performing the music of Comatone & Foley (Greg Seiler and Alon Ilsar) in a virtual world designed by Matt Hughes. Ilsar commands a spinning, shifting and mesmerising holographic world of colour and light with the movement of his custom-built AirSticks.
Trigger Happy Visualised is a vivid ride through an audio-visual wonderland unlike anything you’ve seen, taking the practice of real-time electronic music to a new realm.
'Like peeking around the corner of the time-space continuum and glimpsing the future" Sydney Morning Herald
"Man, body, music, and light as one… A perfect amalgam between man-machine" Amnplify
Presented by: Alon Ilsar
Alon Ilsar is an Australian based drummer, composer, instrument designer and researcher. He is the co-designer of a new gestural instrument for electronic percussionists, the AirSticks. He has played the AirSticks at Sydney’s Vivid Festival, on Triple J’s Like a Version and at NYC’s MET Museum, with projects such as Trigger Happy ‘Visualised’, The Sticks, Tuka (from Thundamentals), Sandy Evans’ ‘Ahimsa’ and ‘Rockpool,’and Kirin J Callinan. He has played drums in Belvoir Theatre’s ‘Keating! the Musical,’ Sydney Theatre Company’s ‘Mojo,’ Meow Meow with the London Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Sydney, Melbourne and Western Australia Symphony Orchestras, Stephanie Lake’s ‘Manifesto,’ Alan Cumming, Jake Shears and Eddie Perfect.