Entertainment = Control by Anthony Pateras · Erkki Veltheim

Long-range acoustic hallucinations for violin and piano. Exploring spectral techniques throughout extended temporal structures, Pateras & Veltheim physically generate unrelenting harmonic waves to create a singular psycho-harmonic texture, blurring perceptions between two otherwise distinct instruments to create something otherworldly and hypnotic.

Never having worked exclusively as a duo, this is the first joint statement from these two composer/performers who have played together in numerous contexts since 2001, including in experimental film soundtracks for Eron Sheean and Pia Borg, the avant-music-theatre sextet Twitch, Pateras’ Tzadik releases and in his recent collaboration with Mike Patton, tētēma. Veltheim is also a respected pop arranger in Australia, working for Gurrumul, Tom Lewis and Steve Pigram, and has composed abstract masterworks for the likes of The London Sinfonietta.

Anthony Pateras is an Australian composer and musician. Active since 1999, his practice spans modern classical, electroacoustics, experimental rock, piano improvisation and film soundtrack.

Photos by Ravyna Jassani (Phoenix)

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