Name: Splinter @ 21 Shepherd
Start: 2025-10-26T08:00:00+11:00
Location: 21 Shepherd St Marrickville, Sydney

Splinter is a radically inclusive large-scale orchestra that has been a forum for improvising for well over 100 exploratory musicians and sound artists living in or passing through Sydney for over 2 decades. Currently having a diverse membership of roughly 25, the process of co-creation and the resulting music is probably best left undefined—amorphous and ephemeral qualities being inherent to the orchestrating—but it can be said that playing is the group’s fundamental activity. Meeting weekly, with ever-fluctuating line-ups, they do just that. Splinter's approach to open improvisation makes the group super sensitive to place, and this new venue will provide marvellous potential for co-creation.

This will be the Orchestra's first public outing since their April Fool's Day performance with Tetuzi Akiyama at the Paddington Uniting Church.
The performance will take place in the new home of The Living Room Theatre at 21 Shepherd St, Marrickville.

"Every Splinter Orchestra performance unfolds a unique improvisational sonic ecology combining highly developed music skills with thoroughly experimental sound-making and an intuitive compositional repertoire built from years of collective engagement. The entire space becomes a stage for performers and audience alike to wander, carrying their generative or listening attentions amongst, between and through an evolving sonic unknown.” - Gary Warner, 2017
$20 and $15 on the door. Kids welcome.
Doors 6pm. Music from 6:30.