- Music Council of Australia 13th Annual Assembly
- Sound Spectrum iv
- Banalities
- Perth Arts Law Week
- Defying Gravity presentsWorld of Percussion
- New Music at WASO
- 2005 Conference Proceeedings Now Available
Tura New Music and WAM will co host the annual Music Council of Australia Assembly on 24th and 25th September 2006 with the annual dinner on Sunday 24th. This will be a fascinating program and the outcomes may influence Australian music well into the future. There will be roundtables on the situation of live contemporary music, jazz, world music, new classical music, and opera, and sessions on school music education, advocacy and the internet.
Go to http://www.mca.org.au/ for information and registration
This program, curated by Cat Hope, features original live music works composed and performed by students and staff at WAAPA. A variety of acoustic and electronic works are featured, including a performance by bass quartet Abe Sada, some works by Jo Re Mi and a performance by Masters student Jonathan Mustard.
7.30pm, Tuesday 3 October
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
Ruark Lewis, 2006 Biennale of Sydney artist, who works in text, video, audio, drawing and writing producing multi-media installations, will perform Banalities at Spectrum Project Space. A modular and multi-layered series of writings, Banalities is a vocal performance with a sequence of 24 sound montages by Melbourne composer Rainer Linz randomly projected through the space.
7.30pm, Friday 6 October
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
As part of Arts Law Week, Tura (in partnership with Arts Law Centre of Australia) will be hosting a Music Presentation at 5.30 – 7.30pm 9th October at PICA. Covered in the presentation will be legal issues for musicians including copyright, income streams, publishing recording and distribution agreements, new technologies and collecting societies
Speakers:
Alison Patchett, Arts Law
Stephanie Faulkner, Partner at Jackson McDonald
Jim Ledger, Composer
Cat Hope, composer
FREE
Places are limited so bookings are essential.
Tura New Music
Ph: 9380 6996
Email: info@tura.com.au
WAAPA's award-winning Defying Gravity percussion ensemble hosts guest soloist Freddy Poncin - on congas and djembe - as they explore the rhythms of Africa, the melodies of Latin America, voodoo rituals from Haiti, bamboo grooves from Indonesia, and the ancient soundscapes of Australia. The programme includes music by Paul Tanner, Lee Buddle, Peter Sculthorpe, Nebojsa Zivkovic, Russell du Plessis, Matthias Schmitt and Christopher Rouse... and features Iannis Xenakis’ legendary work ‘Peaux’ - possibly the best piece ever written for percussion ensemble - in only its second-ever WA performance!
Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th October
7.30pm in the Music Auditorium at WAAPA
Tix: $19.50 and $14.50
Phone: WAAPA Box Office on 9370 6895
Kakadu (1988) by Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe
“reflecting the breadth, vastness and loneliness of the Australian landscape and the sounds of its wildlife”
Reworked for didgeridoo and orchestra
Pietari Inkinen, conductor
William Barton, didgeridoo
Also on the program:
GreigPiano Concerto
Dvorak Symphony No. 8
8pm, Friday 13 & Saturday 14 October
Perth Concert Hall
Tickets from $20.00 - $68.00
Bookings through WASO on 9326 0000 or http://www.waso.com.au/
Sound Scripts, the Inaugural Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference proceedings, are now available in hardcopy from Tura.
Papers include conference keynotes Liza Lim's "A Hidden Centre: Crossing Cultural boundaries and ecstatic transformation" and Annea Lockwood's "How to prepare a piano".
Sound Scripts can be purchased for AU$15.00 plus postage.
Contact Tura on (08) 9380 6996 or info@tura.com.au
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The Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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