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Rad Percussion Christina Project

Christina Hopgood + Charles Martin.

Emerging from Canberra, Australia, the (soon-to-be) husband and wife duo of Christina Hopgood and Charles Martin are dedicated to playing fun music and being awesome.
For their first installment in 2012, Christina and Charles will be in Piteå, northern Sweden, to record new arrangements of music from the 20s and 30s and to hold a mini-festival of ragtime xylophone music in collaboration with Ensemble Evolution and students from Luleå University of Technology’s School of Music and Framnäs Folkhögskolan.

Christina Hopgood

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Christina Hopgood is from Canberra. She sometimes makes things with her bare hands, such as cakes, clothing and percussion music.
A devotee of movie songs from the 30s and 40s, novelty marimba music of the 70s and Weird Al Tankovic, Christina is busily creating Australia’s “Underground Ragtime Xylophone Scene”.
Her recent “Honours Ragcital” at the Australian National University’s School of Music caused such an uproar that she was asked to leave the university (with a degree).
In the future, Christina plans to hone her superhero skills as well as playing some fun ragtime music with the Rad Percussion Christina Project.

Charles Martin

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Charles Martin is a specialist in percussion, computer music and interactive media from Canberra, currently exploring the world from his secret base in Sweden.
His music explores formal structures from computing and logic situated in the context of percussive gesture and timbre. He links percussion with electroacoustic music and other media through new interactive technologies. His works, described as “a thing of rare beauty” in The West Australian, have been featured throughout Australia, in Sweden and the USA.
In 2010, Charles was a co-founder of Ensemble Evolution, an international percussion group dedicated to exploring the future of percussion through composition, education and technology.
In his spare time, Charles traverses hidden worlds with his cross-artform group, Last Man to Die, re-writing history to their own future-past specifications. In the spirit of hacker culture, he endeavours to “release early, release often”, prototyping his works through rapid performance and revision.