Festival Programme
Festival Welcome Concert
The Song Company and pi at a special outdoor event at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
Crossing Continents
A program of works celebrating living UK and Western Australian composers.
Duo Stump-Linshalm
Clarinet duo extraordinaire.
Taikoz
The Gathering includes several new works and features guest artist Timothy Constable from Synergy Percussion.
Claire Edwardes Solo Concert
Claire Edwardes is an internationally renowned percussionist. Her solo concert features works for percussion, electronics and multi-media.
Cage Uncaged
A program of rarely-heard works by John Cage juxtaposed by responses from other composers to his legacy.
Aurévélateur
Aurévélateur is Philip Brophy’s score to Philippe Garrel’s controversial one-hour silent 1968 film Le Révélateur, performed live with the film.
Sonic Sights
Celebrating four Australian premieres from Andrew Ford and Brett Dean alongside one of Europe’s most awarded composers, Michel van der Aa.
Bake It Up – Totally Huge Festival Club
Dave Brown, Robin Fox and Beautiful Cyborg 2 by Philip Brophy.
Martin Wesley-Smith Retrospective / Quito
Presenting the work of one of Australia’s most celebrated composers, the Song Company performs the award-winning music theatre work Quito, as well as a selection of Wesley-Smith songs.
Windstrokes
Claire Edwardes (percussion), William Barton (didgeridoo), Mel Robinson (cello/voice) and Iain Grandage (cello/keyboards) come together for this unique instrumental and vocal combination.
Ruined Piano Sanctuary Tour
An opportunity to visit the pianos in situ accompanied by the artist.
Sunn0))) & Boris
Sunn0))) strip away the pulse and the melody so that the gale of doom can rage through you unabated. Boris, the three headed hydra of rock from Japan may be the best power rock boogie stormtroopers since the MC5.
Festival Finale
The Song Company, William Barton, Claire Edwardes, Iain Grandage, Mel Robinson. This unique All Star performance of voice, percussion, didgeridoo, and cello will be a virtuosic celebration of Australian New Music.
WASO @ Totally Huge:
Splendor of Brass
Sachio Fujioka (conductor), David Elton (trumpet)
Enigma Variations
James MacMillan (conductor), John Chen (piano)
WAAPA @ Totally Huge:
Resonator
A program of works by featured Festival composer Michel van der Aa.
Defying Gravity: Sparkling Rhythms
WAAPA’s Defying Gravity percussion ensemble.
Breaking Out
A concert of new music premieres curated by Cat Hope.
Defying Gravity
Defying Gravity presents John Cage’s classic pioneering work Third Construction (1941).
Uno
Celebrating WA percussionist Louise Conroy.
UWA @ Totally Huge:
Drawing Breath
The Song Company: 25,000 breaths and 16 Kgs of air is what constitutes the average person’s daily air-consumption.
Uno
Louise Conroy’s first major solo project Uno will feature performances of new works written for Louise by Western Australian composers.
Installations:
Melting Moments
An audio-video installation of gradually shifting colors and sounds.
Music Works
Exhibition by Janis Nedela.
Metadance in Resonant Light
An Installation by Jonathan Mustard and Chrissie Parrott.
