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.
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Decibel Euro Tour
Posted on: Friday, January 06, 2012Tura'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.
The Mechanical Piano
Posted on: Thursday, October 27, 2011
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
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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.
Into the Shimmer Heat
Posted on: Wednesday, October 05, 2011
7.30pm 8 - 15 October Heath Ledger State Theatre Centre
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Festival Feast
Posted on: Thursday, September 29, 201111 days of sonic delight throughout Perth ended on Sunday 26 Sept with the performance of Residual by Peter Knight and Dung Nguyen. 16 concerts, a 3 day conference, 2 surround sound events, university workshops and an installation spanning the whole event - Totally Huge served up another biennial Feast. The wonderfully theatrical and transporting soundworld created by Marina Rosenfeld with Decibel and the Teenage Lontano chior at the Midland Railway Workshops on the final Saturday epitomised the essence of the Festival ( read a review ). Much of the Festival was recorded by ABC FM for broadcast on New Music Uplate - go there for streaming listening and future broadcasts. And go to RealTime for reviews and interviews across the whole Festival. Tura New Music celebrates all the artists who gave so generously to the Festival and thanks all of the Festival supporters who made it all possible.
RealTime Arts
Posted on: Tuesday, September 13, 2011
RealTime will be on-site at the upcoming Totally Huge New Music Festival. Gail Priest will be joined by local writers Sam Gillies and Henry Andersen, delivering daily reviews of concerts, installations and events across the festival.
Totally Huge
Posted on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011Its that Biennial opportunity to expand the sonic expanses of our hearts and minds...
The 10th Totally Huge New Music Festival opens on the 15th of Sept 2011 with Melbourne's illustrious Speak Percussion performing Grisey's astonishing Le Noir de l'Etoile at the Studio Underground - State Theatre Centre AND Sonia Leber and David Chesworth's sound installation Space-Shifter at PICA. All that kicking off 11 days of concerts, installations, Festival club, radio projects, Festival Conference.
Full program online or download the festival brochure.
All ticketed events now on sale at BOCS 9484 1333 or www.bocticketing.com.au
2011 Remote Residency Commences
Posted on: Saturday, August 13, 2011Monday 8 August 2011 saw the start of Tura's 2011 Remote Artist In Residence program in collaboration with Warmun Art Centre, with Philip Samartzis wending his way from Melbourne to the remote community of Warmun in the East Kimberley. For the next 5 weeks Philip will be working with artists at the Centre, students at Ngalangangpum School and the community at large to create a new surround sound work.
Project info here and follow the progress of the residency via Philip's Blog.
The 2011 Remote Residency is sponsored by Heathway to promote the “Respect Yourself, Respect Your Culture” Message, Horizon Power and the Sidney Myer Fund and is supported by RMIT.
The project was made possible by the Australian Government’s regional arts program, the Regional Arts Fund, which gives all Australians better access to opportunities to practice and experience the arts. The Regional Arts Fund is administered in Western Australia by Country Arts (WA) Inc.
