Anthony Pateras, Erkki Veltheim

Long-range acoustic hallucinations for violin and piano. Exploring spectral techniques throughout extended temporal structures, Pateras & Veltheim physically generate unrelenting harmonic waves to create a singular psycho-harmonic texture, blurring perceptions between two otherwise distinct instruments to create something otherworldly and hypnotic.

Never having worked exclusively as a duo, this is the first joint statement from these two composer/performers who have played together in numerous contexts since 2001, including in experimental film soundtracks for Eron Sheean and Pia Borg, the avant-music-theatre sextet Twitch, Pateras’ Tzadik releases and in his recent collaboration with Mike Patton, tÄ“tÄ“ma. Veltheim is also a respected pop arranger in Australia, working for Gurrumul, Tom Lewis and Steve Pigram, and has composed abstract masterworks for the likes of The London Sinfonietta.