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Wednesday 26 July 2006

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Inside this issue...

- New Music at WASO
- Sound Spectrum iii
- Duo Vertigo
- The 2007 Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference: 27th - 29th April 07
- The 8th Totally Huge New Music Festival Dates Confirmed

New Music at WASO

Stele (1994) by Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag

"A whole world of expression and suggestion can be packed into these exquisite, crystalline forms." — The Guardian

Also on the program: MAHLER Symphony No.6

Simone Young, conductor WORLD ARTIST

Simone Young appears courtesy of CNOOC NWS Private Limited.

8pm, Friday 4 & Saturday 5 August
Perth Concert Hall

Tickets from $20.00 - $68.00. Bookings through WASO on 9326 0000 or http://www.waso.com.au/
SPECIAL OFFER: Mention the TURA Ezine when booking with WASO to receive 20% discount on the Adult ticket price (A Reserve only) to this concert.

Sound Spectrum iii

Throughout 2006 Cat Hope, lecturer in music at WA Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) will curate a series of sound performances.

The third in this series of performances is a program of electro-acoustic works created by WAAPA composition students. A variety of styles reflects the eclectic nature of composition at WAAPA, and features stand works as well as works created for dance, film and experimental video. Students across all years will represented including works by Joe Stawarz, Jon Edwards, Clare Nina Norelli, Cherie le Brasse, Adam Willett and others.

7.30pm, Tuesday 8 August

FREE ADMISSION

spectrum project space
221 Beaufort St Northbridge
t: 9328 2088 e: m.siciliano@ecu.edu.au

For more info got to http://www.soca.ecu.edu.au/school/spectrum/ or call 9328 2088

Duo Vertigo

Scale Variable 2006

Tickets selling fast - don’t miss out!

World renowned percussionists Duo Vertigo, Claire Edwardes and Niels Meliefste, will present solo and duo percussion works commissioned by them from composers around the world. Up and coming young percussionist Claire Edwardes has been based in the Netherlands ever since she won the Sydney Australia Young Performer of the Year in 1999. She has since been awarded the Freedman Fellowship for Classical Music in 2005.

Program - Green Gold and Oranje

Jane Stanley - Celestial Dance
Benedict Weisser - Piano Drumming
Benedict Weisser - Study for Four Hands (Piano-Drumming)
Samual Vriezen - Toccata
Samual Vriezen - Toccata III
Ton de Leeuw - Midare
Louis Andriessen - Woodpecker
Drew Crawford - Quadrivium
Jane Stanley - Panel 1: Silver - Impulsion - Panel II: Rose
Ned McGowan - Urban Turban

8pm Sat 12th August
Art Gallery of WA

Tickets are $30 full/$25 concession/ $15 students and can be purchased from
BOCS Ticketing 9484 1133 or http://www.bocsticketing.com.au/

The 2007 Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference: 27th - 29th April 07

Call for papers – to be announced shortly

The THNMF Conference is a forum for artists from diverse areas of practice, along with critics, commentators and academics, to discuss the ideas which underline contemporary New Music and Sound Art – the histories, methods, theories, approaches, techniques and dreams which make up the modern world of music and sound arts. The THNMF Conference offers opportunity for presentations of refereed and non-refereed papers, performances, demonstrations and workshops.

The theme for the 2007 Conference is ‘The Sonic Image: Exploring the relationships between the sound and visual worlds’

The Conference is presented by Tura New Music, in association with the Faculty of Education and Arts, Edith Cowan University, including the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and is supported by the School of Music at the University of Western Australia.

The official call for papers will be announced soon so keep checking the website for updates http://www.tura.com.au/ or for more info contact:
Tura New Music
info@tura.com.au
(08) 9380 6996

The 8th Totally Huge New Music Festival Dates Confirmed

20th April – 6th May 2007

Details announced soon…


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