12TH PRESENTED BY
15–24 MAY 2015
Tura New Music’s flagship project The 12th Totally Huge New Music Festival presents an exciting landscape of new music and sound art practice from around the world, Australia and WA. This kaleidoscope of expression via the medium of sound will take audiences on a unique and captivating journey – one that is expansive, ear opening and enriching. We wholeheartedly thank all our partners and congratulate all the artists for their commitment and energy. On their behalf we invite you to seize this rare opportunity and dive into a captivating ocean of sound.
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04 Composer in Residence 06 Concerts 14 Festival Club 15 Satellite Events 16 Calendar 22 Installations 24 Symposium 27 Venues 28 Tura New Music 29 Acknowledgements 31 Tura Donors
COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE
1–17 May PS Arts Space Free Entry
SpaceFolding [neW formaT: exhibitioN/ performancE/concerT] Johannes S. Sistermanns German composer Johannes S. Sistermanns will be Composer in Residence at PS Art Space in Fremantle for three weeks leading into THNMF. The composer will develop a series of immersive sound works as well as collaborate with Decibel ensemble to create a new work for chamber group and immersive sound. Exhibition Opening 6:30pm Friday 1 May (see page 22 for more information)
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7pm Friday 1 May New York sur_ [Version Fold 1] Glad wrap, Voice, Electroacoustics, Piezo, Transducer 7.30pm Friday 8 May Open the gates 2015 Electroacoustics, 4 cars, glad wrap, car radio, street 8pm Friday 15 May Space/Pli 2015 | Decibel Ensemble Composition/Space/Electroacoustic: Johannes S. Sistermanns [iPad/Graphic Notation] Space can be folded!? Sound can be folded!? Sound folds air, continually. Variety, diversity, spacefold, fullness, un, room tone. Tearing open perspectively, uncoupling. This commissioned composition will be realised with the Decibel ScorePlayer, an ipad application that enables network-synchronised scrolling of proportional colour music scores on multiple tablet computers. Commissioned by Decibel with support by the Government of Western Australia through the Department for Culture and the Arts
New York sur_[Version Fold 2] AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Glad wrap, Voice, Electroacoustics, Piezo, Transducer All events – Free Entry Johannes S. Sistermanns Residency, Exhibition and Performances presented by PS Art Space and Tura and are supported by Kunststiftung NRW Dßsseldorf/Germany.
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CONCERTS
8pm Saturday 16 May Foyer, Western Australian Museum $20/$15 eventbrite.com.au
Akousmatikoi Stuart James, Kynan Tan, Cat Hope, Chris Cobilis, Dobromila Jaskot and Steve Paraskos Curated by Steve Paraskos Akousmatikoi is an immense and immersive experience of spatial art music – on a multi-storey thirty-two piece loudspeaker orchestra. To sit inside the sound, to be surrounded by the sound, to be able to follow and experience the movement of the sounds, their speeds and forms in which they move: an expanded and visceral sonic experience. Presented in association with The Western Australian Museum
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5pm Sunday 17 May Callaway Music Auditorium, UWA $30/$25 trybooking.com
“A bewildering range of sounds and a sense of movement that grips the listener from start to finish.” The Strad
Amour – Soundbridge Friedrich Gauwerky – cello Hanswerner Henze Capriccio Thomas Reiner Three Sketches Karlheinz Stockhausen/Friedrich Gauwerky From Amour | Cheer up! | your angel is watching over you | a little bird sings by your window Felix Werder Violoncello solo 1 Paul Hindemith Sonata for Violoncello solo German born and based Friedrich Gauwerky is a masterly interpreter of new music. At seventeen he won the Preis des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters Hamburg. He was the principal cellist in the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt and member of the Australian Elision Ensemble. gauwerky.de The program reflects the intercultural ties between Germany and Australia. Presented in association with School of Music UWA
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8pm Tuesday 19 May Jimmy’s Den $15/$10 ticketbooth.com.au
Club Zho 117 Black Zenith, Hedkikr, Candied Limbs Black Zenith (Singapore) Black Zenith is Darren Moore and Brian O’Reilly. They produce dense sonic textures that generate live visuals through the transformation of audio signals into images. | black-zenith.com Hedkikr (Perth/Singapore) Hedkikr bring a unique blend of electronics and intense improvisation that veers from the micro to the macro. | lindsayvickery.com/hedkikr.html
“Two of the most dynamic noise artists in Australia” XPress Magazine
Candied Limbs (Perth) Cat Hope (bass, analogue effects) and Lindsay Vickery (bass clarinet, digital effects). Candied Limbs make free improvised noise like you will have never heard before. | cathope.com/ candied-limbs.html
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8pm Wednesday 20 May PICA Performance Space $25/$20*/$15 pica.org.au * PICA members
Breaking Out Young Composers Night The traditional Festival celebration of young and emerging composers and performers. Featuring graduating students from WAAPA@ECU and the School of Music at UWA as well as those spreading their wings beyond the institutions. Sally Banyard, Sean Bernard, James Bradbury, Ben Christiansen, Olivia Davies, Laura Halligan, Josten Myburgh, Josiah,Padmanabham, John Pax, Elise Reitze and Drew Wooley. Presented in association with PICA
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7pm Thursday 21 May State Library Theatre Free entry Bookings recommended eventbrite.com.au
Invitation to Ruin Film by Rob Castiglione Filmmaker Robert Castiglione has been documenting the work of renowned Ruined Piano artist Ross Bolleter for over 10 years travelling with Ross in his search for ruin across Australia from Tasmania to remote Western Australia country towns. The resulting film, Invitation to Ruin, gives a wonderful insight into this unique artist, his work and the extraordinary environments in which the work is created. Presented in association with the State Library of WA
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8pm Friday 22 May Art Gallery of Western Australia $30/$25 eventbrite.com.au
Dark Twin Zubin Kanga Music of mystery and multiplicity for piano and multimedia. Stefan Prins Piano Hero Julian Day Dark Twin Benjamin Carey _derivations Michel van der Aa Transit Daniel Blinkhorn FrostbYte: Chalk Outline Cat Hope The Fourth Estate Steve Reich Piano Counterpoint (arr. Vincent Corver) Dark Twin explores the potential for multiple identities, malevolent doppelg채ngers and menacing landscapes in solo piano music, through the assistance and interference of electronics, computer interaction and multimedia. zubinkanga.com
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7.30pm Saturday 23 May PICA Performance Space $25/$20*/$15 pica.org.au * PICA members
Gentle Steps Open Mouth Alice Hui-Sheng Chang Melbourne based composer, vocalist, sound artist Alice Hui-Sheng Chang presents a program of new works including vocal work for large group collaborating with singers from WAAPA. “We sound so we are heard, whether it is a bang, a dong, a ahhh or a la, whether we are being understood or not, interpretation is there. I come from a tropical island with extreme urban noise and far from natural soundscape. Our emotions are constrained and subconscious are controlled by commercials. I want to scream with the longest breath and with the thinnest gap, then I might be able to twist human voice and remember my dreams.” Also appearing at Denmark Festival of Voice, 29–31 May. huishengchang.com Presented in association with PICA
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5pm Sunday 24 May Callaway Music Auditorium, UWA $30/$25 trybooking.com
Time Alone Claire Edwardes, Ashley Smith, Louise Devenish Chris Tonkin IN Magnus Lindberg Ablauf Damien Ricketson Time Alone Michael Smetanin Finger Funk Nico Muhly It Goes Without Saying Gyorgy Ligeti Continuum Sydney percussion sensation Claire Edwardes and local stars Ashley Smith (clarinets) and Louise Devenish (percussion). What ensues must be experienced live and in the moment – squealing clarinet paired with fortissimo concert bass drum blows (Lindberg); the intimate tones of fingers dancing on a single marimba (Smetanin); electronica organically growing out of chime-like vibraphone peels (Ricketson) and a continuum cloud of luscious sound (Ligeti). claireedwardes.com Presented in association with School of Music UWA
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FESTIVAL CLUB
9pm Jimmy’s Den $15/$10 ticketbooth.com.au
Club Huge Thursday 21 May Club Huge #1 Tchake, Cat Hope, Fatin/Reid/Winton Trio Friday 22 May Club Huge #2 MotEt, Pedrag Delibasich, Craig McElhinney
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SATELLITE EVENTS
7.30pm Friday 8 & Saturday 9 May Perth Concert Hall $89–$30* waso.com.au *Transaction fees may apply
Håkan Mark-Anthony Turnage WORLD PREMIERE
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra presents the world premiere of renowned British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Håkan – for trumpet and orchestra. Baldur Brönnimann, conductor Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet Program includes Vaughan Williams and Sibelius. Meet the Artists, post-concert Friday and Saturday nights: Mark-Anthony Turnage, Håkan Hardenberger & Baldur Brönnimann An Alcohol.Think Again Masters Series concert. Håkan was commissioned by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, KölnMusik – Kölner Philharmonie, London Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonie Luxembourg & Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg.
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FESTIVAL CALENDAR
Concerts FRIDAY
8pm
Space/Pli 2015 WP Johannes S. Sistermanns/ Decibel Ensemble PS Art Space | Free entry turanewmusic.eventbrite.com.au
SATURDAY
8pm
Acousmatikoi Stuart James, Kynan Tan, Cat Hope, Chris Cobilis, Dobromila Jaskot, Steve Paraskos Foyer, Western Australian Museum | $25/$15 eventbrite.com.au
SUNDAY
5pm
Amour – Soundbridge Friedrich Gauwerky Callaway Music Auditorium, UWA | $30/$25 trybooking.com
TUESDAY
8pm
Club Zho 118 Black Zenith, Hedkikr, Candied Limbs Jimmy’s Den | $15/$10 ticketbooth.com.au
WEDNESDAY
6pm
WANMA Launch Western Australian New Music Archive State Library Theatre rsvp@tura.com.au essential
8pm
Breaking Out Young Composers Night PICA Performance Space | $25/$20*/$15 * PICA members pica.org.au
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9am– 5pm
Festival Symposium Western Australian Art Music: 1970–2015 State Library Theatre | $100/$80 eventbrite.com.au
7pm
Invitation to Ruin Film by Rob Castiglione State Library Theatre | Free entry eventbrite.com.au
9pm
Club Huge Tchake, Cat Hope, Fatin/Reid/Winton Trio Jimmy’s Den | $15/$10 ticketbooth.com.au
8pm
Dark Twin Zubin Kanga Art Gallery of Western Australia | $30/$25 eventbrite.com.au
9pm
Club Huge MotEt, Pedrag Delibasich, Craig McElhinney Jimmy’s Den | $15/$10 ticketbooth.com.au
SATURDAY
7:30pm
Alice Hui-Sheng Chang PICA Performance Space | $25/$20*/$15 pica.org.au * PICA members
SUNDAY
5pm
Time Alone Claire Edwardes, Louise Devenish, Ashley Smith Callaway Music Auditorium, UWA | $30/$25 trybooking.com
THURSDAY
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FESTIVAL CALENDAR
Satellite Events FRIDAY
7.30pm
Håkan Mark-Anthony Turnage Perth Concert Hall | $89–$30* waso.com.au *Transaction fees may apply
SATURDAY
7.30pm
Håkan Mark-Anthony Turnage Perth Concert Hall | $89–$30* waso.com.au *Transaction fees may apply
THURSDAY
6pm
Music in Space UWA School of Music Guitar Ensemble Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery | Free entry eventbrite.com.au
SUNDAY
7pm
Magnolia’s Totally Huge Edition Tristan Fidler and Guests The Bird | $5 Door
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Installations TUE–SAT
11am–4pm SpaceFolding SoundPlastic Johanness S. Sistermanns PS Art Space | Free entry
MON–SUN
Library hours
A Backwards Glance Western Australian New Music Archive Foyer, State Library Theatre | Free entry
MON–SUN
All day
Sonic BollART Team Artifactory Perth Cultural Centre | Free entry Club Huge
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HERE&NOW15 Rebecca Bauman once more with feeling (detail)
SATELLITE EVENTS
6pm Thursday 14 May Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Free Entry eventbrite.com.au
Music in Space UWA School of Music Guitar Ensemble The UWA School of Music Guitar Ensemble is the premier guitar group in Western Australia, receiving the highest awards at the 2014 WA Classical Guitar Festival. This special concert, performed in the beautiful acoustics of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery to accompany the HERE&NOW15 exhibition, will feature contemporary classical works by Australian composers. The ensemble will be joined by student soloists and duos in this special intimate performance. lwag@uwa.edu.au
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7pm Sunday 17 May The Bird $5 Door
Magnolia’s Totally Huge Edition Tristan Fidler and Guests Magnolia’s is Perth’s premier community live talk-show. Following collaborations with Revelation, PICA, National Science Week and Fringe World, RTRFM’s host Tristan Fidler will interview special guests from the Perth New Music scene, accompanied by live performances and Amber Fresh’s Love Seat.
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INSTALLATIONS
SpaceFolding SoundPlastic
TUE–SAT & SUN 17: 11AM–4PM
2–17 May PS Arts Space Variety, diversity, spacefold, fullness, un, eigenton [original sound], authentic space
SpaceFolding SoundPlastic Johannes S. Sistermanns The exhibition itself is a living organism; from the prepared starting situation, this space experiences, by means of scenographic, sound plastic, performative, filmic, visual and auditive media, permanent changes. Qualities of the transformative fold/unfold in exemplary manner in a condition of an unceasing becoming. Present by PS Art Space and supported by Kunststiftung NRW Düsseldorf/Germany
LIBRARY HOURS
15–24 May Foyer, State Library Theatre
A Backwards Glance WANMA 1970–2015 As part of its role in the development of the Western Australian New Music Archive (WANMA) web portal, the State Library of Western Australia will present an exhibition celebrating the past 45 years of New Music in WA. The exhibition will include graphic scores, historical posters, a listening station featuring key WA new musical works and a collection of ruined pianos. 22 | 12th Totally Huge New Music Festival
ALL DAY
15–24 May Perth Cultural Centre, Club Huge
Sonic BollART Team Artifactory Reclaiming urban infrastructure, the Sonic BollART is a vessel where artists can develop a range of experiences and realise their digital ideas; it provides a method to share artworks and experiences with a local audience. This iteration features a theremin and a wifi music deaddrop containing artists performing in THNMF12. Presented by Perth Artifactory
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6pm Wednesday 20 May
WANMA Launch
State Library Theatre
The Launch of the Australian Research Council Linkage funded Western Australian New Music Archive (WANMA) website – a digital archive focusing on the Western Australian art music since 1970 to the present day. WANMA is a project of WAAPA at Edith Cowan University, Tura New Music, The State Library of Western Australia, ABC Classic FM and the National Library of Australia. Entry only on reply from rsvp@tura.com.au
1–2pm Thursday 21 May
WANMA Concert Series
Ground Floor, State Library
The first of a series of monthly lunchtime concerts throughout 2015 featuring WAAPA students performing Western Australian compositions from – and leading into – the Western Australian New Music Archive. | wanma.org.au
Free Entry
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SYMPOSIUM
9am–5pm Thursday 21 May State Library Theatre $100/$80 eventbrite.com.au
Festival Symposium Western Australian Art Music 1970–2015 Keynote Speakers Stephen Adams, Australian Music Producer, ABC Classic FM. A/Prof Cat Hope, Project Leader, Western Australian New Music Archive. A one-day symposium on the theme of “Western Australian Art Music 1970–2015” to celebrate the launch of the Western Australian New Music Archive, a digital archive focusing on the Western Australian New Music. The papers will embrace issues around remembering Western Australian music, in particular music with links to Western Australian composers, performers, writers, events, music series, music writing, artists and other associated organisations or people. | Updates at tura.com.au Presented in association with WAAPA@ECU, the State Library of WA, ABC Classic FM, NLA and the WA chapter of the Australasian Musicological Society
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Venues
Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge (08) 9492 6600 | artgallery.wa.gov.au The Bird 181 William Street, Northbridge (08) 6142 3513 | williamstreetbird.com Callaway Music Auditorium School of Music, University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley (08) 6488 2051 | music.uwa.edu.au Jimmy’s Den Upstairs, 69 James Street, Northbridge jimmysden.com.au Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley (08) 6488 3707 | lwgallery.uwa.edu.au Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth (08) 9231 9900 | waso.com.au Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) 51 James Street, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge (08) 9228 6300 | pica.org.au PS Art Space (PSAS) 22–26 Pakenham Street, Fremantle (08) 9430 8145 | psas.com.au State Library of Western Australia 25 Francis Street, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge (08) 9427 3111 | slwa.wa.gov.au Western Australian Museum Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge 1300 134 081 | museum.wa.gov.au
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Tura New Music Driving the evolution of music and the sonic arts. Board of Directors Gavin Ryan Simon Dawkins Justine Lawler Robyn Johnston Liesbeth Goedhart Rod Campbell Artistic Director Tos Mahoney General Manager Annalisa Oxenburgh Development Manager Nancy Fox Development Consultant Liesbeth Goedhart For THNMF12 Production Manager Guy Smith Marketing Martine Linton Media Gabrielle Sullivan Event branding Chil3 tura.com.au info@tura.com.au +61 8 9228 3711 Programs Scale Variable New Chamber Music Series Club Zho iMprov Regional Touring Program Remote Community Residencies Totally Huge New Music Festival Young and Emerging Curators Program WANMA
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Acknowledgements
The 12th Totally Huge New Festival is presented by Tura New Music. Tura New Music’s annual program is supported by The State Government of Western Australia through the Department of Culture and the Arts, in association with Lotterywest and, The Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding advisory body.
For the 12th Totally Huge New Music Festival Tura gratefully acknowledges the support of PRESENTATION PARTER
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Tura Donors To become a Tura donor go to tura.com.au Diamond Donors The Rowley Foundation Carl Erbrich Platinum Donors Helen Symon Irene Lawson Gold Donors Vanya Cullen Elizabeth Gherardin Ros and Ian de Souza Silver Donors Kathleen Bozanic Lesley-Jane Campbell Peter Connaughton Jeremy Feldhusen Adrian and Michaela Fini Liesbeth Goedhart Heather Grauaug Janet Holmes รก Court ING Dreamstarter Alan Lamb and Kate Lowe Holly Masterman Margot Nelson Mark and Rose Okeby Tony and Rose Packer Susan Parker Gavin Ryan Tanya Sim Carol Whish-Wilson Terri-Ann White Sue Wenn Simon and Jenny Yeo
Bronze Donors Scott and Felicity Bailey Anne and Charlie Bontempo Henry Boston Michael Bradshaw Katrina Burton Andrew Chambers Simon and Jo Clarke Kris Dallimore Simon Dawkins Ash Donner Hon. Peter Dowding and Benita Dowding Graham and Treffina Dowland Craig Ellis Jodie Fewster Jody Fitzhardinge Andrew Gaspar Lelia Green Lyn Hawkins Sarah Hector Louise Kennedy Ana Lawson Marshall Ma Guire Rob and Janet Muir Tim Muirhead William and Mimi Packer PianoEasy Deborah Protter The Reverend Dr. Philip Raymont Dr Jan and Cath Resnick Leigh Robb Julie Rosario Stephen Scudamore Andrew Simper Jasmin Stephens Jon and Carolyn Stewart Jennifer Trijo Emma Williamson
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