Earlier in January DeepBlue had an amazing week at the YoungBlue SummerSchool. We worked with young musicians from across the country at Trinity Lutheran College at the Gold Coast. Their performance “The rise of the Siribots” not only had incredible music and physical performance, but included electronic string improvisations and flashing iphones attached innovatively to violins and cellos! We couldn’t have done it without our sponsors Trinity Lutheran College and QUT, and a massive thank you to the Australian Society of Performing Arts Health Care & Skeletal Harmonics, Sally Thibault and Music Lab. And of course all the mums and dads out there supporting their young musicians!

SummerSchool at the beach

DeepBlue are very excited to announce our SummerSchool program will be hitting the Gold Coast in January 2013!

Held this year at Trinity Lutheran College's Ashmore Rd Campus, this five day creative learning adventure will run from the 7th - 11th of January 8:30am - 4:00pm.

Applications are open for string and rock/electronic students going into grade 5 at school and above.

DeepBlue’s new show India Stories premieres at Woodford on 27th and 28th December. It’s about our time in India and tells the stories of the young musicians of Dharavi, Mumbai’s largest slum where this creative collaboration began.

Also come to our New Year’s Eve gig for some of DeepBlue’s favourite party tunes.

Check out DeepBlue’s Facebook page to see photos of our 2013 tour of Delhi, Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The tour, which was a great mix of concerts and workshops, was kindly supported by QUT and DFAT.

We thought we should show you some of our inspiration for our India Stories show at Woodford Folk Festival this year!! In 2012 DeepBlue performed in Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

DeepBlue were invited to perform in OzFest (Which is the biggest Australian cultural festival ever staged in India) and supported by their sponsors Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

The tour involved a series of performances and workshops at BlueFROG venues across India, the National Institute of Design, Private and corporate shows and workshops at schools and with kids from the Dharvi Rocks program in the Mumbai slums.

We were so inspired by our trip that we have developed a festival show called "India Stories" which we will be premiering at Woodford Folk Festival with a sand artist from Mumbai called Siddhi Yadav. Visit the website. 

Earlier in January DeepBlue had an amazing week at the YoungBlue SummerSchool. We worked with young musicians from across the country at Trinity Lutheran College at the Gold Coast. Their performance “The rise of the Siribots” not only had incredible music and physical performance, but included electronic string improvisations and flashing iphones attached innovatively to violins and cellos! We couldn’t have done it without our sponsors Trinity Lutheran College and QUT, and a massive thank you to the Australian Society of Performing Arts Health Care & Skeletal Harmonics, Sally Thibault and Music Lab. And of course all the mums and dads out there supporting their young musicians!

SummerSchool at the beach

DeepBlue are very excited to announce our SummerSchool program will be hitting the Gold Coast in January 2013!

Held this year at Trinity Lutheran College's Ashmore Rd Campus, this five day creative learning adventure will run from the 7th - 11th of January 8:30am - 4:00pm.

Applications are open for string and rock/electronic students going into grade 5 at school and above.

Unlike the traditional orchestra, deepblue celebrates its people and their individual personalities, attitudes and skills. We believe that it’s crucial in any performance for the performers to communicate and connect with the audience and take the journey together.

DeepBlue people are passionate people who want to make a difference and want every member of the audience to have an unforgettable experience.

Hundreds of people and dozens of organizations from all over the world have contributed to the deepblue vision and it is this vast sea of ideas that the deepblue orchestra has been developed from. See it here.

Thousands of hours of research were undertaken before a single note was performed on stage.

Under an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, the partnering research organisations QUT, Creative Media Warehouse, The Brisbane Festival and The Queensland Orchestra undertook extensive reviews of many aspects of traditional and contemporary arts practice. We will publish excerpts from the findings here soon.

deepblue is committed to ongoing research as a part of the day to day operation and is currently working in partnership with John Kotzas and the Team at QPAC on exploring new techniques for presenting and marketing deep blue.

Special thanks must also go to QUT for their continued support for the deepblue project and the ongoing search for innovation.