ARTIST PROFILES
INVENTION IN TIME
Invention in Time is a marimba and vibraphone duo from Melbourne, Australia. Kate Adam and Ariel Valent perform original and exciting sound sculptures that stimulate the mind and refresh the soul.
With influences from world music and jazz, Invention in Time takes you on a journey of stimulating original music. Imagine being overcome by the beauty of your favourite place and you are approaching the feeling of Invention in Time.
An Invention in Time concert is a captivating experience for performers and audience alike. The secret to the duo’s distinctive tone is the contrast between the deep, mellow marimba and the bright, jazzy vibraphone. The duo also has a strong visual component, with the expert use of four mallets fascinating to watch.
Since being launched in 1996, Invention in Time has performed extensively across Australia and in Europe. The debut European tour included performing alongside world renowned marimba players at the International Percussion Festival in Belgium, two performances at Hotel Sonnevanck, a beachside institution in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands and appearing as special international guests at the Percussive Arts Society’s Days of Percussion in Stockholm, Sweden.
Invention in Time has performed at the Woodford Folk Festival, Australia’s premier music festival in 2004-05 and 2006-07, where they performed to an audience of twenty thousand. Other notable Australian performances include Port Fairy Folk Festival, Queenscliff Music Festival, Apollo Bay Music Festival, Federation Square CD Launch, Side-On Café (Sydney), Nexus Cabaret (Adelaide), the Melbourne Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria and many times at the Boîte World Music Café. The duo was described as a standout act of the Apollo Bay Music Festival (Beat Magazine). The duo has twice appeared as musical guests on ABC TV’s hit music quiz show Spicks and Specks.
Memories of a Time to Come, the second album by Invention in Time, features uncommon time signatures, syncopated contrapuntal lines, improvisation, interweaving melodies and minimalist techniques. Through the seven tracks, the impression is of both complexity and simplicity. The CD, distributed nationally by Black Market Music, was launched at a special concert at BMW Edge at Federation Square, Melbourne.
Over the years, Invention in Time has collaborated with many artists, including dance, film and photography. By request, the duo teams up with innovative drummer-percussionist Danny Richardson to provide another rhythmic dimension.
Ariel Valent is a Melbourne-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker. He has composed extensively for ensemble, theatre and film. In 2006-07, he was musician in residence at St. Kilda Botanic Gardens, a unique project where Ariel is putting the stories of the local vicinity into music.
He was a musical collaborator for Song For a Siren, which won the Fringe Award for Best Cabaret in the 1998 Melbourne Fringe Festival. He has composed music for children's theatre (Charlotte's Web in 1995), comedy theatre (In Denial, 2000, Jo Stanley and Jodie J Hill) and also provided the soundtrack for the 1995 cult short film, Deep Shit.
He plays vibraphone, piano, piano accordion and percussion, and has performed and recorded with funk band Hot Pudding, African music acts King Marong and Safara, Adzohu, the World Rhythm Ensemble and Valanga Khoza and the drum and dance company Colours of Pulse. Ariel has also had success as a film-maker. His comedy film Superheroes in Marketing was nominated for 4 awards in the 15/15 Film Festival 2002, and the rhythmical documentary, Slambangricketychuck, was awarded Best Documentary at the MAFIA (Music and Film Independent Artists) Awards in 2002, and was screened on SBS TV.
Otherwise, Ariel is engaged by the City Melbourne to produce musical events in the Melbourne Town Hall and other public spaces.
Kate Adam took up percussion at the age of seventeen and graduated from the classical percussion course at the VCA in 1994. In 2006 she completed an Advanced Diploma in Jazz Improvisation, specialising in the flute. Accomplishments include composing music for contemporary dance, theatre, performance poetry and multi-media.
Kate has performed in many ensembles exhibiting her skills as a percussionist, flautist and hammered dulcimer player. Past ensembles include world music groups Camel Magic and Pilgrims Carnival, The Judy Jacques Ensemble, folk rock singer Jodie Moran and all female percussion group Tum Tum. Kate is currently working on a solo CD and leads a jazz band that debuted at the 2008 Eltham Jazz Festival.
Kate is also a sought after music educator, and inspires children and adults alike with her teaching of creativity through drumming ensembles. Since moving to St. Andrews, a small community in Melbourne’s north- east in 1995, she has specialised in facilitating music in the community through regular adult classes, school workshops and her student percussion extravaganzas. She is currently a workshop artist for The Song Room, an organization that places artists in disadvantaged schools.
Kate has also been employed as a carer for people with an intellectual
disability, where she introduced music therapy to her clients with
astounding results.
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| Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld |
Saturday 17 April
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2:30pm
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