New Order, Bon Iver, Deafheaven for Vivid LIVE 2016

PRESS RELEASE:

NEW ORDER (SYDNEY ONLY)

BON IVER PRESENTS CERCLE (SYDNEY ONLY)

ANOHNI: ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS + ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER PRESENTHOPELESSNESS (SYDNEY ONLY)

ESPERANZA SPALDING PRESENTS: EMILY’S D+EVOLUTION

FUTURE CLASSIC PRESENTS TA-KU LIVE FEAT. WAFIA (SYDNEY ONLY)

HIATUS KAIYOTE WITH SAMPA THE GREAT
MAX RICHTER SLEEP (SYDNEY ONLY) |ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
DEAFHEAVEN |WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET
GOODGOD SUPER CLUB |POLIÇA |TINY RUINS
DRESS UP ATTACK! FEAT. WALTER MARTIN WITH SPECIAL GUESTS SALLY SELTMANN & HOLLY THROSBY
LIGHTING THE SAILS ‘SONGLINES’ DIRECTED BY RHODA ROBERTS
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NEW ORDER EXHIBITIONS | FREE TALKS SESSIONS | DEEP PURPLE POOL HALL

New Order, Bon Iver, Max Richter (featuring Grace Davidson) and Ta-ku (featuring Wafia): generations of powerful, boundary-pushing artists join Anohni in Sydney Opera House exclusives as part of its Vivid LIVE 2016 program of transformative contemporary music, announced today forVivid Sydney,the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas.

Taking over all six stages and spaces across the Opera House, Vivid LIVE 2016 features more than 25 international and Australian performances from a genre-hopping line-up that spans jazz geniusEsperanza Spalding, future-soul quartet Hiatus Kaiyote, metal-benders Deafheaven, Goodgodclub nights, a night-long performance, dress-up kids’ shows and much more (full details below).

All within the soaring Songlines, a groundbreaking indigenous artwork that will transform the sails of the Opera House into an animated canvas, directed by the Opera House’s Head of Indigenous Programming, Rhoda Roberts.

A bold evolution of Vivid LIVE’s annual Lighting the Sails during Vivid Sydney, Roberts’s Songlines conflates time and space, weaving history lines and trade routes into a pattern of sharing systems. Roberts has selected six key Indigenous artists from different clans, national estates and territories –Karla Dickens, Djon Mundine, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, Reko Rennie, Donny Woolagoodja, and the late Gulumbu Yunupingu – to create this new and timeless work.

For the first time, the Opera House Forecourt will become part of the citywide Vivid Light Walk, with a very special installation, Flurry. This interactive space deploys LED lighting to make the public the performer, their presence triggering light effects within a structure they can walk through to a view of the harbour.

Now in its eighth year, Vivid LIVE celebrates the world’s boldest and most ambitious contemporary music at Australia’s boldest and most ambitious building, the World Heritage-listed Sydney Opera House. Showcasing newly commissioned works, world-premiere performances and exclusive appearances, Vivid LIVE has included performances by The Cure, Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwomanKaren O, Kraftwerk, Lauryn Hill, St. Vincent and Morrissey.

Destination NSW Chief Executive Officer and Executive Producer Vivid Sydney Sandra Chipchase said, “Vivid Sydney returns in 2016 with an incredible program featuring a series of exciting firsts. From the spectacular illumination of the iconic sails in celebration of Australia’s Indigenous artists through the story of Songlines, to the expansion of the Vivid Light Walk through the Forecourt with Flurry, this year’s Vivid Sydney festival is set to be our biggest yet.”

Ben Marshall, curator of Vivid LIVE and the Opera House’s Head of Contemporary Music, says, “It’s an honour to present the 2016 Vivid LIVE program, the second I’ve had the privilege of putting together. Vivid LIVE celebrates ambition and excellence in contemporary music – marrying artists interested in stretching the concept of performance with a building that symbolises the liberating power of art. It’s a unique time to take in the Opera House, when it’s being taken over by contemporary music performances, the Deep Purple Pool Hall, free artist talks & exhibitions plus the brilliant madness of Dress Up Attack!’s music festival for kids & adults, Max Richter’s overnight concerts and more. I hope everyone enjoys the city and the Opera House at this unique time of year and has fun trying on for size the musical worlds that are brought here.”

Ben Marshall, who follows an illustrious line of Vivid LIVE curators that began with the legendary Brian Eno and has included the late Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, Modular Recordings founderStephen Pavlovic and Fergus Linehan.