A festival of sound and vision
Art Gallery of New South Wales
22 Sep – 8 Oct 2023

Sat 23 Sep – Sat 7 Oct 10.30–11.15am

Tones

A festival of sound and vision
Art Gallery of New South Wales
22 Sep – 8 Oct 2023

Sat 23 Sep – Sat 7 Oct 10.30–11.15am

Tones

A person with a white beard and light skin sits on a sandstone formation with their hands clasped. They are viewed from the side. — Akio Suzuki, photo: Hiromi Miyakita

Person with dark hair and glasses, wearing all black, standing in front of a board covered in plugs and wires. — Ben Carey, photo: Kristoffer Paulsen

Person energetically playing the drums — Chloe Kim 김예지, photo: duncographic

A person with short black hair and light brown skin raises their eyebrows an looks up. They are wearing a black turtleneck and sitting in front of a stage. — Datu Arellano

A person with short grey hair and light skin and glasses bends over several glasses of water on the floor. They are dangling a tube with a microphone into one of the glasses. — David Toop at the White Cube Bermondsey, 2015

Person standing at a DJ deck in a dark room. — Jannah Quill, photo: The Lab

A person with a long red and grey beard and light skin with glasses sits on a sofa with a large brown dog in their lap. Both the person and the dog have serious expressions. — JWPATON

Closeup photo of a persons face with long dark hair — Kaleena Briggs

Person in white coveralls, holding a long transparent tube in one hand and holding the end of it to their mouth in the other. — Kate Brown, photo: Zan Wimberley

A person with dark, curly hair, glasses and light skin. — Maissa Alameddine, photo: Lucy Leonardi

Person crouching wearing a ragged white outfit, blowing into a two pronged electrical instrument — Marcus Whale at Carriageworks during a VIVID performance, photo: Jordan Munns

Person standing at an instrument holding multiple mallets. — Niki Johnson, photo: Chris Hales

Person, framed from above, sitting on a stool, surrounded by three small tables with various tubes and wires. — Solomon Frank, photo: Joseph Mayers

A person with light skin and long brown hair stands in a black gown. They are gazing at you with a neutral expression. — Sonya Holowell, photo: Vsevolod Vlaskine

Person pictured from the neck upwards, in a dark room, wearing a flat cap and staring at the camera openly. — Trevor Brown

Tones, moves, strings is a three-part program featuring 42 intimate performances, spanning music and dance, which will pop up across the North and South buildings daily at 10.30am, 12.30pm and 2.30pm.

Tones

Tones features improvised performances where solo musicians respond to a work from the Art Gallery’s collection. Each of these musicians work tonally with sound, engaging a range of instruments including brass, wind and voice.

10.30–11.15am

Akio Suzuki
Ben Carey
Chloe Kim 김예지
Datu Arellano and Toni Muñoz
David Toop
Jannah Quill
JWPATON
Kaleena Briggs
Kate Brown
Maissa Alameddine
Marcus Whale
Niki Johnson
Solomon Frank
Sonya Holowell
Trevor Brown

Details

Tones

Date and time

Saturday 23 September – Saturday 7 October 2023, 10.30–11.15am

Location

Art Gallery of New South Wales
North and South buildings

Pricing

Free

Access

Before you visit, please let us know your access requirements.

Schedule

Sat 23 Sep, 10.30–11.15am

Niki Johnson

Live music

North Building
Lower level 1, Making Worlds

Sun 24 Sep, 10.30–11.15am

Datu Arellano

Live music

North and South buildings

Mon 25 Sep, 10.30–11.15am

Kate Brown

Live music

South Building
Lower level 1, 20th-century galleries

Tue 26 Sep, 10.30–11.15am

Ben Carey

Live music

South Building
Lower level 1, 20th-century galleries

Wed 27 Sep, 10.30–11.15am

Solomon Frank

Live music

South Building
Ground level, Grand Courts

Thu 28 Sep, 10.30–11.15am

Marcus Whale

Live music

North Building
Lower level 2, Aqualand Atrium

Fri 29 Sep, 10.30–11.15am

Chloe Kim 김예지

Live music

South Building
Ground level, vestibule

Sat 30 Sep, 10.30–11.15am

Sonya Holowell

Live music

South Building
Ground level, vestibule

Sun 1 Oct, 10.30–11.15am

Trevor Brown

Live music

South Building
Ground level, Grand Courts

Mon 2 Oct, 10.30–11.15am

Jannah Quill

Live music

South Building
Lower level 1, 20th-century galleries

Tue 3 Oct, 10.30–11.15am

David Toop

Live music

North and South buildings

Wed 4 Oct, 10.30–11.15am

Kaleena Briggs

Live music

North Building
Ground level, Entrance Pavilion

Thu 5 Oct, 10.30–11.15am

Akio Suzuki

Live music

South Building

Fri 6 Oct, 10.30–11.15am

JWPATON

Live music

North Building
Ground level, Yiribana Gallery

Sat 7 Oct, 10.30–11.15am

Maissa Alameddine

Live music

North Building
Lower level 1