Tura New Music Presents the 8th

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Festival Highlights

The 8th Totally Huge New Music Festival features artists from around the world presenting an extraordinary array of concerts, installations, screenings, workshops and master classes over seventeen aurally audacious days.

Artists include: Michel van der Aa (Netherlands), WASO New Music Ensemble, Philip Brophy (Melb), Brett Dean (Melb), SunnO))) (USA), Stump-Linshalm (Austria), WASO, James MacMillan (UK), TaikOz (Syd), Boris (Japan), Defying Gravity, Claire Edwardes (Syd), William Barton (Bris), Martin Wesley-Smith (KV), Ros Dunlop (Syd), Ross Bolleter, The Song Company (Syd), Andrew Ford (Syd), and pi.

Film still from Aurévélateur

Aurévélateur

Screenings with Live Performance

Philip Brophy, Michel van der Aa, Martin Wesley-Smith

Presented by Tura New Music and Luna Cinemas.
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WASO

Sonic Sights

WASO New Music Ensemble

Brett Dean (conductor), Merlyn Quaife (soprano)

Four Australian Premieres by Andrew Ford, Michel van der Aa & Brett Dean.
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The Song Company

Festival Finale

The Song Company, William Barton, Claire Edwardes, Iain Grandage, Mel Robinson

This unique performance of voice, percussion, didgeridoo and cellos will be a virtuosic celebration of Australian new music.
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See the whole Festival Programme

Welcome

Minister for Culture and the Arts

Sheila McHale

A great festival is one that exposes participants and the audience to new directions and ideas and the 2007 Totally Huge New Music Festival promises to do just that with an extraordinarily rich program of Australian and international work.

Internationally the THNMF has emerged as a key new music event. This biennial festival is a vital platform that brings the world to Western Australia to connect with our artists and visa versa. Through performance, collaboration, discussion or observation, the exchange of sounds and ideas that result from the Totally Huge New Music Festival feed the innovation, development and profile of our contemporary artists.

Enjoy the experience and sounds!

Hon. Sheila McHale MLA
Minister for Culture and the Arts
Western Australia

Artistic Director

Tos Mahoney

As Tura New Music celebrates the company’s 20th year of operation, Totally Huge surprises yet again with its freshness and vitality. Across an exciting landscape of new music practice, this kaleidoscope of expression via the medium of sound will take audiences on a unique and captivating journey.

A 17 day program, including an international conference, brings a fantastic opportunity for audiences to experience the new. From the gala to the underground, there is an ocean of choice. Dive in!

Tos Mahoney
Artistic Director
Tura New Music

Discounts for Turacard Holders

Did you know that Tura Cardholders are eligible to purchase concession price tickets to most of the events during the festival? It's not too late to become a subscriber! More info on the events that include this subscriber deal can be found here

Acknowledgements

The 8th Totally Huge New Music Festival is presented by Tura New Music. Tura New Music’s Annual Program is supported by the Government of Western Australia through ArtsWA in association with Lotterywest, and the Australian Government through the Music Board of the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

For the 8th Totally Huge New Music Festival, Tura New Music gratefully acknowledges the support of our International Funding Partners – Gaudeamus and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs; our Sponsors – River View on Mount St, Block (BlockBranding.com), Skywest, ABC Classic FM, Drum Media, RTR FM and zebra-factory.com, and our Presenting Partners – The West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Musica Viva, The Art Gallery of WA, The Fremantle Arts Centre, Luna Palace Cinemas, Capitol, WAAPA @ ECU, UWA School of Music, Artrage, The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, KURBGallery, Hale School, Wambyn Olive Farm and Kulcha.