Speak Percussion

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Speak Percussion
OriginMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Years active<2000 (2000)–present
Members
  • Eugene Ughetti
Past members
  • Minako Okamoto
  • Justin Marshall
  • Rory McDougall
  • Harry Arvanitis

Speak Percussion are an Australian percussion ensemble led by artistic director Eugene Ughetti. [1]

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The original five members, including Ughetti, came together in 1999, to join a recital by Minako Okamoto while they were undergraduate students at Victorian College of the Arts. The following year, they formed Speak Percussion and made their debut at Musica Viva's Ménage music nights at Chapel off Chapel. [2] Later that year the line-up of Okamoto, Ughetti, Justin Marshall and Rory McDougall performed Fritz Hauser's Double Exposition. [3]

In 2002, the group split up due to financial and creative strain, with Ughetti the only one wishing to continue. Since then they have operated as a collective, with an ever-changing lineup. [2]

Since forming, they have collaborated with Oren Ambarchi, Anthony Pateras, Jon Rose, Ethel, and glass artist Elaine Miles. [4] [5] [6]

In 2018, Norwegian record label Sofa released Before Nightfall One, an album with Speak Percussion and Ingar Zach. This was followed by Percussion Works, an album with Thomas Meadowcroft released on Mode Records in 2020.

They have been nominated at the APRA's Art Music Awards each year from 2011 to 2017 and 2019–2021, and have won five awards between 2015 and 2021.

Members

Credits: [7]

Discography

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