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Reef Residency Commences

Sun, 13 May 2012 10:15:00 GMT

The Reef Residency in Carnarvon and Ganraloo has started with performers, composers, filmmakers and surfers descending on the Gascoyne region of Western Australia to create the new multi media work for the upcoming Reef Tour. Check out the Reef Residency and Reef Tour Websites and book now for Reef concerts in July to avoid missing out on this unique set of collaborations across Australia - Darwin, across the Kimberley, Pilbara, Gascoyne, MidWest, Perth Concert Hall and Sydney Opera House. The Reef Residency and Tour is presented by Tura New Music and The Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Club Zho 99

Wed, 02 May 2012 14:38:00 GMT

Kynan Tan’s Consciousness and The Uncanny Valley next Tuesday 8 May at the Bakery at 8pm. Read More

Like Tura New Music's new Facebook page before 12pm Tuesday 8 May and you get free entry to Zho 99.

www.facebook.com/TuraNewMusic

Hail the Rose

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:29:00 GMT

Tura New Music congratulates Jon Rose on been awarded the 2011 Don Banks Award presented at the Launch of Tura's 2012 Program, by Chair of the Australia Council's Music Board, Matthew Hindson. Jon Rose has links with WA new music community which pre date the 25 years of Tura New Music, as well as many projects and collaborations since then. Jon is featured in the 2012 Program via the Decibel Series Concert 2. Tura and Jon are keen for something outlandish at this years Sounds Outback in and around Exmouth and after the announcement at the Tura Launch that there was to be a 25th Year New Music Ball in November in Perth theres been a big call for The Ball at The Ball. Read more on the award.

Tura Leads the Charge

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:45:00 GMT

So says William Yeoman in the West Australian on Thursday 22 March. Read on....

Tura 2012 Program Launch

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:28:00 GMT

Tura New Music's 2012 Program was launched last night in the majestic Hackett Hall Gallery at the Western Australian Museum. The Gallery is the site of many events across the year. Download the program or view events in the calendar now

Scale Variable Series On Sale

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:55:00 GMT

2012 Scale Variable Series on sale now

Decibel Cage Project Wed 28 March

Dafeldecker/Tricoli Extended Williams Mix Tues 17 April

Etica Smalley, MacMillan, Ligeti Tues 24 April

All concerts 7.30pm

Hackett Hall Gallery, Western Australian Museum, Perth Cultural Centre

Series Subscription available

Reef Tour Site

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:48:00 GMT

The Reef Residency and Tour website will go live this Thursday at 12pm WST

Ezine Online

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:34:00 GMT

B;a B;a 230 is online now for all the latest on new music in WA and beyond

The Reef 2012 Tour Dates Announced

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:39:00 GMT

The tour dates for Tura New Music's Regional Touring Program for 2012 featuring Richard Tognetti, ACO2, Mark Atkins, Steve Pigram with Film and Images by Jon Frank and Mick Sowry are:

Darwin	8.00pm	Thurs 5 July	Darwin Entertainment Centre
Kununurra	7.30pm	Sat 7 July	Ivanhoe Farm
Broome	7.30pm	Wed 11 July	Cable Beach Amphitheatre
Port Hedland	8.00pm	Thurs 12 July	Matt Dann Centre
Carnarvon	7.30pm	Sat 14 July	Camel Lane Theatre
Geraldton	7.30pm	Sun 15 July	Queens Park Theatre
Perth	7.30pm	Wed 18 July	Perth Concert Hall

The Reef Tour is a coproduction with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Regional tickets and travel packages go on sale on February 20th with the launch of the Tour website.

Perth concert on sale now at www.bocsticketing.com.au

The Reef will also be presented at Sydney Opera House on Monday July 23 7.30pm

Tickets on sale at www.aco.com.au

Newsletter 228 Online

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:58:00 GMT

Tura Newsletter #228 Online now featuring:

2012 Regional Tour

Decibel Euro Tour

Peninsula at Spaced
Soft Soft Loud
New Music at Fringe World Festival
New Music at PIAF
Merlyn Quaife In Perth Concert

Decibel Euro Tour

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:39:00 GMT

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

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:46:00 GMT

Tura 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

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:24:00 GMT

To 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

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:34:00 GMT

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.

The Mechanical Piano

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:36:00 GMT

Thurs 27 October, 7.30pm Music Auditorium, WAAPA

Performed by Mark Gasser and WAAPA Music students

Music Director Lindsay Vickery

Tickets $23 Full, $18 Concession/Friends

Bookings and Door Sales

The Disklavier is the player piano of the digital age – a Yamaha grand fitted with the latest technology. This concert brings together works written especially for this instrument, with and without pianist. Pianist Mark Gasser brings the human touch to works including French spectral composer Jean-Claude Risset’s 8 Sketches and Austrian interactive music pioneer Karlheinz Essl’s landmarkLexicon Sonata. Performances of new works by WAAPA composers Cat Hope and Lindsay Vickery will feature, as well as the controversially titled multi-piano work, Evil Nigger, by African‑American composer Julius Eastman.