Scott Tinkler and Simon Barker have been working together extensively for over 30 years, touring throughout Australia and internationally. They first performed together in 1990 with Mark Simmonds’ Freeboppers and have since been in numerous ensembles together including the Scott Tinkler Trio, Australian Art Orchestra, Antripodean Collective and Chiri.

This concert forms part of Scott Tinkler’s PhD research into how an innovative approach to rhythm, emerging in an Australian improvised music tradition, might be further developed to establish a unique Rhythmelodic approach to solo and group improvisation. This performance highlights how this awareness of pulse and its possible divisions can be developed to create a Rhythmelodic approach to improvisation and how this Rhythmelodic approach is used to develop a distinct Antripodean sound in improvised music.