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Thursday 6 October 2005brought to you by tura new music |
YOU ARE HERE… entangle features 6 sound installations by local and national artists both internationally renowned and emerging. The works explore defi nitions of spatiality and ontology within our sound environment; how sound entangles identity, locale, biology and memory.
From mobile phones to swarming biomorphs, and sonic hair via 35kg wheel hubs, this exhibition will challenge your perceptive orientation.
Exhibition opens 6.30pm, Thursday 6th October
9pm special performance by The Bent Leather Band (Victoria)
Free
Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, 46 Henry St Fremantle
Exhibition runs until 23rd october
The ABC Radio National’s Music Show comes to Perth for a Festival special. Featuring festival artist interviews and performances including a special Ruined Piano event, this is a unique opportunity for Perth audiences to experience The Music Show “live”.
The Music Show is a mix of music, interviews and information about the latest developments in music, hosted by composer Andrew Ford. It aims to entertain and inform a wide audience about music, providing two hours of essential listening every week.
Friday 7th, 5 – 7pm
Free
PICA Bar
51 James St, Perth Cultural Centre
Broadcast 10am Saturday 8th October (repeated at 10pm)
morceaux_de_machines (Montreal)
The Bent Leather Band (Victoria)
Amanda Stewart (Sydney)
Miha Ciglar (Slovenia/Austria)
10 pm onwards in the PICA Bar
51 James St, Perth Cultural Centre
Entry $10 conc / $15 full
Friday 7th – Sunday 9th
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. Places are still available so come along to PICA on Friday 7th, 4 – 7pm to register!
Registration: Friday 7th, 4 – 7pm, PICA Bar
Day 1: Saturday 8th, 9.30 – 3.30pm, W.A Academy of Performing Arts – Mt Lawley
Day 2: Sunday 9th, 9.30 – 4.30pm, PICA Bar
Registration details can be found at www.tura.com.au
In good Festival tradition The Sounds Of Perth Bus Tour, departing at the end of day 1 of the Festival Conference, will take delegates and the public alike on a unique tour of the Festival highlights including the You Are Here….entangle Sound Art exhibition at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery and Annea Lockwood’s ‘Southern Exposure: Piano Transplant Number 4’ at Bathers Beach in Fremantle.
Departs from WA Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley
3pm Saturday 8th October
Arrives 6pm Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 51 James St, Perth Cultural Centre
$20, Bookings essential at Tura 9380 6996
Don’t miss out on seeing the Ruined Piano Labyrinth in the central gallery space at PICA! Exhibition closes Sunday 9th october!
Also! as a special performance, Domenico de Clario will be performing Tonglen: event for a suspended piano, starting 6.28pm sharp in the PICA central space, followed by a collaborative Ruined Piano performance by artists Ross Bolleter (WA), Annea Lockwood (USA) & Michal Murin (Slovakia)
Don’t Miss it!!
Come and partake in the second of international artist Annea Lockwood’s piano installations
Millenden House
813 Gt Northern Hwy, Herne Hill
7pm, Sunday 9th October
Entry $10
map at www.tura.com.au, Bar and bbq facilities will be on site, bring a picnic blanket or chair.
No, it’s not a stunt. Sadly, Annea Lockwood’s piece Southern Exposure: Piano Transplant number 4 was stolen from Bathers Beach in Fremantle on Tuesday 4th. We’re not quite sure who would do such a thing...However, all is not lost and another ruined piano will be installed on the beach on Friday 7th. The installation will be on view until Sunday 16th so make your way down to see the second take!
Club Zho 65 will see Perth’s monthly new music night feature artists as part of the 7th Totally Huge New Music Festival in the suave surrounds of Subiaco’s Llama Bar.
Susanna Ferrar (UK)
The Bent Leather Band (Victoria)
Miha Ciglar (Slovenia/Austria)
morceaux_de_machines (montreal)
8pm, Monday 10th
Llama Bar, Subiaco
Entry $10 conc / $15 full
Gordon Kerry’s Children’s Voices Friday 7th & Saturday 8th at the Perth Concert Hall. www.waso.com.au for details
last nights!, 8pm at PICA, www.pica.org.au for details
Monday 10th & Tuesday 11th at PICA, www.artrage.com.au for details
The granddaughter of one of CY O’Connor’s pipeline engineers and Totally Huge Festival Artist, Susanna will play in The National Trust of Australia (WA)’s No 1 Pump Station at the foot of the dam that supplies the goldfields with water. Susanna is a London-based violinist who will improvise a piece to celebrate the life of her grandfather - who came from New Zealand as a young man to work on the goldfields water supply scheme - and of the family that surrounded him in WA.
Sunday, 16 October
12 and 1pm
No 1 Pump Station
Mundaring Weir
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