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Peninsula at Spaced
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New Music at Fringe World Festival
New Music at PIAF
Merlyn Quaife In Perth Concert
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Posted on: Monday, January 23, 2012Decibel Euro Tour
Posted on: Friday, January 06, 2012
West Australian New Music heads overseas in January with the irrepressible Decibel ensemble on the road from Ghent to Palermo. On Tour Decibel will present works by WA composers including Lindsay Vickery, Cat Hope, Stuart James and Malcom Riddoch as well as Australian composers Julian Day, Thomas Meadowcroft, Warren Burt and Samuel Dusncombe. In Germany Decibel will team up with Australian ex pats Thomas Meadowcroft, Steve Heather, Tony Buck as well as Londoner Boris Hauf. 17 Jan Logos Foundation Ghent, Belgium 19 Jan WABE, Berlin, Germany with Tony Buck, Thomas Medowcroft, Boris Kauf and Steve Heather. 20 Jan DEINSTBAR, Berlin, Germany 21 Jan, Friedrichstadtzentral, Dresden with Alessandro Quintavalle. 24 Jan Staadthalle, Biberach an der Riss, Germany 27 Jan Zehntsheuer, New Music Days, Rottenberg am Neckar, Germany 30 Jan Perditempo, Naples, Italy. 31 Jan Cell Theory, Naples, Italy. 2 Feb Teatro Coppola, Catania, Italy. 3-5 Feb Il Suono De Soli Festival, Palermo, Italy. The tour is made possible through German Radio Station SudWest Radio Funk and supported from WA by Tura New Music and Edith Cowan University.
Tura's 2012 Regional Tour - The Reef
Posted on: Friday, December 23, 2011Tura New Music announces its 2012 Regional Touring Program - a very special collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra to present The Reef featuring Richard Tognetti, ACO2, Mark Atkins and Steve Pigram. Premiering a new work by Iain Grandage with film created by surf cinematographer Jon Frank and film director Mick Sowry, the tour will travel to Darwin, Kununurra, Broome, Port Hedland, Carnarvon, Geraldton and Perth with a showcase presentation at the Sydney Opera House. The new work will be created during a special creative development residency at Gnaraloo, the start of Ningaloo Reef in the Gascoyne region of WA, in early 2012 delving into the links between surfing, the ocean, landscape, community and music.
Tour Dates 5 – 23 July 2012
Full details on Tura Website early February 2012
Perth and Sydney tickets on sale now. Book early to secure your seats.
Perth Concert Hall – 7.30pm 18 July 2012
Sydney Opera House – 7pm 23 July 2012
Regional Concert tickets and travel packages on sale mid February 2012
New Newsletter/Ezine
Posted on: Thursday, December 22, 2011To celebrate the start of our 25th year (2012), Tura launches our new look newsletter under the traditional banner of b;a b;a - delivering you hot gos on new music and sound art around WA and the world. Spread the word.
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Archive Project awarded ARC Funding
Posted on: Tuesday, November 01, 2011
A consortium of The Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University, Tura New Music, the State Library of Western Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the National Library of Australia, is the recipient of a three year Australian Research Council Linkage Grant. The research project is:
The Western Australia New Music Archive: 1970 – today: Finding, accessing, remembering, performing.
This research project will see the creation of the Western Australian New Music Archive, a digital repository of and interface to Western Australian music composed from 1970 to the present day. Hosted at the State Library of Western Australia, the project will preserve and highlight Western Australian new music works and performers in Western Australia and internationally.
Heritage musical works and installations will be presented and recorded, feeding back into the archive. The project will preserve and highlight Western Australian new music works and performers in Western Australia and internationally.
