The Prey and the Ruler was developed for live performance in 2024 in Yogjakarta and makes its Australian premiere for AsiaTOPA festival 6th March Arts Centre Melbourne. Featuring: Senyawa - Rully Shabara (voice/electronics) and Wukir Suryadi (bespoke string instruments), Aviva Endean (clarinets and winds), Lawrence English (electronics), and Peter Knight (trumpet/electronics)

The Prey and the Ruler ROOM40 (2022).

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TLDR is a new quartet brought together by trumpeter/composer Peter Knight who was until

recently the artistic director of the Australian Art Orchestra (2013-23). Peter has developed an

international reputation as a innovator who is extending the possibilities of his instrument with

approaches that interweave acoustic preparations, extended techniques with electroacoustic

processing via laptop, vintage delays, tape machines, and pedals.

Influenced by Brian Eno, John Hassell, The Necks, and swathes of electronic music, TLDR

creates hypnotic, minimal, groove based music that is fresh and distinctive, and that spins these

influences into a sound that defies categorisation.

In 2025 TLDR's debut album will be released on the Australian label, Earshift Music,

accompanied by a national tour.

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Sunny Kim and Peter Knight met in Sunny’s then hometown, Seoul, 15 years ago and formed a project, that also featured bassist Christopher Hale, called Bright Splinters. Since then they have worked together in numerous projects in Australia and abroad including the Australian Art Orchestra, and Hand to Earth.

Together the pair reformed Bright Splinters for a recent Melbourne International Jazz Festival Jazzlab performance for which they were joined by two extraordinary musicians: Theo Carbo (guitar) and Dylan van der Schyff (drums).

This quartet now returns to Jazzlab to further explore the musical ideas that enthralled their Melbourne Jazz Festival audience. 

Sunny Kim builds sound worlds with her voice traversing minimal sampled vocal loops and  swooping ecstatic melodies that float across the off kilter rhythmic grooves set up by the guitar and drum kit; Peter Knight’s electronically smattered trumpet lines the perfect foil for her agile virtuosity.