Tura New Music presents

Scale Variable 04

New Chamber Music Series

The world premiere of David Pye’s Karakamia
Performed by pi

8pm Sat 22nd May, Perth Concert Hall

Ticketing
Full Price $25.00
Concession/Tura CutRate $15.00
Budget $10.00 (tickets to be purchased by may 12, 2004)
Part proceeds of all ticket sales go to the Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Bookings BOCS 08 9484 1133 or www.bocsticketing.com.au

Scale Variable New Chamber Music Series is a project of Tura New Music bringing the work of Australian and international composers to the ears of Perth audiences. Initiated in 2001 Scale Variable has seen performances by the WASO New Music Ensemble, Defying Gravity, The Collective and Vertigo Ensemble. The first Scale Variable for 2004 features WA ensemble pi and includes the world premiere of Perth composer David Pye’s major new work Karakamia.

Concert One

Program	Pye/Buddle	wood, wind, earth, water
	Bone	Cycles & Lines
	Pye	white
	Ipkendanz	Mosquito War Dance
	Pye	Karakamia

pi	violin	Jessica Ipkendanz, Jessica Gethin
	cello	Iain Grandage, Melanie Robinson
	accordion	Cathie Travers
	harmonium	Dominic Perissinotto
	percussion	Paul Tanner, Genevieve Wilkins
	reeds	Lee Buddle, Graeme Blevins
	artistic director	David Pye

Karakamia – the work

Nova Ensemble has commissioned composer, David Pye, to create a 45-minute work inspired by the Karakamia Wildlife Sanctuary, its environment, inhabitants and philosophy. The process has involved members of the pi ensemble individually touring the property with the composer and then recording an improvisation session. Those sessions, and hours of environmental recordings made by the composer, have inspired the heart of the new work.

Although making use of birdsong and other natural sounds, the music is not descriptive. Rather it explores a constantly shifting balanced interplay between the ten players, mirroring the natural processes of a healthy ecology - a tribute to Karakamia and it’s purpose.

This is a musical response to a very special place (and the questions raised by the need for such places) by one of our leading composers and an ensemble of extra-ordinary musicians.

pi

pi , a project of the Nova ensemble, gathers composers and performers to present the best of the past and to forge the sounds of the future. The group seeks inspiration in physical environments, in cultures ancient and far-flung, in technology and in the human spirit – above all in sound in all its variety, its power to move the heart, to impel the body and release the soul.

David Pye

David Pye

David Pye is one of WA’s most experienced musicians - composer, percussionist and conductor. A keen interest in the music of India and Java permeates his compositional style whilst recent developments include the use of pre-recorded environmental sounds in instrumental works and improvisation as a structural element. David’s music-theatre work The Drummers of Gilgamesh was recently awarded the Australian Music Centre/APRA Award for Instrumental Work of the Year for 2002.

Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Australian Wildlife Conservancy is a national, independent, non-profit organisation committed to saving Australia's native wildlife from the threat of extinction. It creates reserves to protect habitat and threatened species, and establishes new populations where threatened species have become locally extinct. Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s seven projects cover a wide range of habitats across Western Australia.

Karakamia is located in the northern Jarrah forest near Chidlow less than 1 hour from the Perth CBD. Re-introductions of several species including the Woylie, Quenda, Numbat, Quokka, Western Ringtail Possum and Tammar Wallaby have been successfully achieved.