Artists

Clocked Out Duo

The Australian-American Clocked Out Duo use traditional and prepared piano, percussion, and voice alongside a bewildering array of found objects, sculptures and toys to create carefully designed sonic, visual and theatrical experiences.  They have cultivated a range of styles from pulse-driven mindscapes and microsonic soundscapes to mind bending acoustical phenomenology, spastic physical improvisation and intricate vocal-percussion phonetics.

Clocked Out Duo has performed at the Australian Daehakro Festival in Seoul, Sydney Opera House, the Totally Huge New Music Festival in Perth, the Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, the Improvisa festival of improvised music and dance in Barcelona, the LaMama Musica festival in Melbourne, the Melbourne Fringe Festival and in many concert halls, clubs and theatres in Australia, the U.S., Europe and China. In addition they have been artists in residence at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music and Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, the Center for Research in the Computing Arts in San Diego, Stanford University, and the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts in Perth.

Their music can be heard on the CDs "Every Night the Same Dream" and "Water Pushes Sand."

"Perhaps Clocked Out Duo's music is experimental -- but if so, it is an experimentalism steeped in tradition, in an appreciation of the multiplicity of voices that the musics of the world have to offer, and in the fundamental concepts of melody and rhythm?Clocked Out Duo are ready and willing to expand your musical horizons.  It's just that they would rather lead you there gently than push you." - Brett McCallon, Splendid E-zine (USA)

"When the audience went out into the bright city, they were already saying:  these foreigners really dare to dream." - Chengdu Commercial Daily, March 2002

Website: http://www.clockedoutproductions.com