7th Totally Huge New Music Festival

Inaugural Totally Huge
New Music Festival Conference

Perth, Western Australia, Friday 7th - Sunday 9th October 2005

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The 7th Totally Huge New Music Festival is a sixteen-day exploration of New Music and Sound Art, The Totally Huge New Music Festival features hundreds of musicians from Western Australia and around the world.

From orchestral extravaganzas and sound galleries to wire installations across the Swan River, the Totally Huge New Music Festival provides a captivating showcase of New Chamber Music, Electronica, Installations, Improvisation, Radiophonics, Multimedia and Sound Art in metropolitan and regional Western Australia.

The Inaugural Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference will bring together a diverse range of national and international speakers, papers, lecture-performances, artist talks and masterclasses addressing the issues of:

New Music - from compositions of contemporary orchestral works to the latest in computer-generated music - is created by composers living and practicing today in a variety of genres and forms, all sharing the common theme that they rigorously explore new ground in their particular field of creativity, exposing audiences to new possibilities in music and sound.

Tura New Music is one of Australia's peak bodies for the production and presentation of New Music events, as well as a resource agency, promoter, and advocacy / support network for Western Australian New Music artists and audiences.

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Keynotes

Annea Lockwood (New Zealand /USA) Composer

Annea Lockwood, born in New Zealand and living in the United States, is perhaps most infamously known for her Piano Transplants (1969-72), in which defunct pianos were variously burned, drowned in a shallow pond in Amarillo, Texas, and partially buried in an English garden. Much of her music has been recorded on the Lovely Music, XI, ¿WhatNext?/OO Discs, Rattle (New Zealand), Harmonia Mundi, and CRI record labels.

Photo by Nicole Tavenner

Liza Lim (Australia) Composer Composer

Liza Lim writes music which ranges from operatic and orchestral works to site-specific installations. 2005 sees the unveiling of six new works, 'Immer Fliessender' premiered by the Sydney Symphony, 'Songs found in dream' by Klangforum Wien at Salzburg Festival, 'glass house mountains', an installation work with artist Judy Watson and ELISION at the Queensland Music Festival and works for the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Kairos Quartett and Deborah Kayser/ Yang Chunwei duo in a special feature at the Festival D‚Automne Paris in November. Liza lives in Brisbane.

Photo by Bridget Elliot

Conference Registration Fees

Registration Type

Registration Fee: General

Registration Fee: Early Bird# & Concession (i.e. student, unwaged)

‘The works’. Full conference registration, weekend concerts* & Festival pass

$450.00

$370.00

Full Conference Registration, including weekend concerts

$350.00

$290.00

Full Conference Registration

$250.00

$200.00

Day Rate

$150.00

$100.00

Session rate

$50.00

$25.00

Full Conference registration and Day rates include, morning and afternoon tea and lunch.

# Early Bird Registrations are available until 26th August and exclude day and session registrations.

* Weekend Concerts include 1 ticket to each of the following events:

Conference enquiries and registration payments

THNMF Conference Coordinator
Email: conference@tura.com.au
Tel: +61 8 9380 6996

 

The conference is presented in conjunction with the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University.