polito

Polito is a collaboration between musicians Robert Downie and Finnian Langham, and performers Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Hillary Goldsmith. Real-time modular synthesis and evolving beat foundations create a transfixing sonic journey, anchored to movement which constantly reacts and evolves through a continuous, symbiotic form. Moments of euphoria emerge out of and supersede the mundane; forms align, hyperextending into a blurry dissonance before snapping back into sublime harmony. By engaging with improvisational scores and responding to each other and their surroundings, Polito create hypnotic performances which are varied and unique each time.

Following performances at beloved Australian festival Strawberry Fields, their work ‘A Crimson Audiovisual Landscape’ won the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2018 award for Best Music. They’ve since performed at The Village Festival, The Melbourne Immigration Museum, Synesthetic, the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melt, MPavilion, Lucid, Hopkins Creek, the Butter Sessions 10 Year Anniversary Party, the Forum, MESS, and the National Gallery of Victoria.

Releasing on Melbourne label Butter Sessions, they’ve put out two EPs and a debut album, and have remixed the music of Imogen Cygler, Go Dog Go and JASA.

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