This Saturday night Magnetic Island Musos Club is replacing its usual program for a must-see visiting artist, Mr Linsey Pollak - a subversive musical innovator with an international reputation for finding ways to make and play instruments from the most unlikely objects including bicycle seats and fresh carrots, while maintaining a very high musical standard.

Linsey also makes and plays instruments made from rubber gloves, watering cans, chairs, brooms, bins, and other found objects. First developed in his solo show, Bang it with a Fork and further in the acclaimed children’s show Out of the Frying Pan, this line of musical inventiveness has ultimately led him to also encompass modern digital technology and develop his solo shows Knocking on Kevin’s Door, Playpen,  The Art of Food and Making Jam and a larger scale outdoor environmental performance Bim...BamBoo!! More recently he is using a midi wind controller to play and loop samples of everything from voices to frogs. He has recently devised a musical installation called Squirt where frog samples are triggered when large acrylic frogs are hit with a stream of water.

Linsey established The Multicultural Arts Centre of WA and has co-ordinated five Cross-cultural Music Ensembles in three different States. He has also performed at most major Festivals around Australia and recorded 21 albums with various groups.

His latest show, to be seen at the RSL hall in Arcadia on Saturday, is titled Passing wind, a quirky look at how wind instruments work and how they are invented using some pretty unexpected materials.

Linsey makes membrane reeds from balloons and rubber gloves, gradually developing them into the Foonki and also Australia's own Kitchen glove bagpipe.

There are panpipes from irrigation pipe, harmonic flutes, Turkish chanters, feather duster, watering can and carrot clarinets, and we even get to hear Mr Curly (a contra-bass clarinet made from garden hose). Many of these instruments are made as we watch.

Live looping is used to build funky pieces by recording different layers of sound plus the addition of Kaossilator grooves and kalimba patterns.

The evening is being facilitated by Magnetic Island Musos Club but will not be like a regular Musos Club gig. As a, very special, once-off performance the event requires a paid admission of $15 for adults and $10 concessions which includes Musos Club members.

The event starts at 8pm at the RSL Hall in Arcadia this Saturday 13 June. Affordable and delicious Indonesian meals are available from Nel in the RSL Kitchen and the RSL bar will be open throughout.

To find out more about the amazing Linsey Pollak (click here).

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