Welcome to the 2005 New Music Network concert series featuring some of Australia's premier contemporary music ensembles. This year’s music offers you the opportunity to experience some of the best contemporary music this country produces, performed by exceptional Australian artists. We welcome Melbourne group David Chesworth Ensemble to this year’s line-up and are delighted to celebrate the 70th Birthday of outstanding Australian composer Nigel Butterley. We continue our “mini series” at The Sound Lounge giving you a chance to hear emerging musicians and performers not normally seen in Sydney.
 
Music that will challenge, stimulate and delight, and certainly not to be missed.
We hope you can join us.   
 

The Song Company
in association with The Studio, Sydney Opera House present
 
BROTHERS IN CRIME
Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith: 60th Birthday Concert
about two men in Kangaroo Valley, a boy from East-Timor and a whole lot of men, women, children and animals on their periphery.
 
In this multimedia event, The Song Company celebrates a twenty year-long and fertile association with the Wesley-Smith brothers, the twins’  forty years of trademark song-writing - something unmatched in recent Australian history - and almost a lifetime of humanitarian concerns and political activism.  The program features Quito, the award-winning audio-visual work about East-Timor and schizophrenia as well as a broad and entertaining selection of songs for all occasions and purposes, and the premiere of  doublethink , a new satirical work about double-speak, double entendre and double standards
 
The Song Company directed by Roland Peelman
 
The Studio, Sydney Opera House
8.15pm Wednesday 15 June 2005
Full price $35; Concession & Under 30 $28
Bookings Sydney Opera House Box Office 9250 7777 or sydneyoperahouse.com

Continuum Sax

4 x 4
 
Continuum Sax, in collaboration with sound artist Gail Priest, present an exciting concert that includes the world premiere of a new work for saxophone quartet by Jane Stanley, the Australian premiere of Rolf Gehlhaar's Divine Wind, a new work for saxophone and electronics devised by Gail Priest and Continuum Sax, and a performance of Andrew Ford's Four Winds to mark the
launching of Continuum Sax' second CD.
 
Margery Smith, soprano sax; James Nightingale, alto sax; Martin Kay, tenor sax; Jarrod Whitbourn, baritone sax; and special Guest Artist: Gail Priest, Sound Artist
 
Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
8pm Saturday 20 August 2005
Full price $28; Concession & Under 30 $20
Bookings tel 02 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door

Nigel Butterley 70th Birthday Festival
A weekend of concerts celebrating one of Australia great composers.
 
Ensemble Offspring; Halcyon; The Seymour Group; The Song Company
Curated by Elliott Gyger
 
For seventy wonderful years, Nigel Butterley has carved out a compositional path that commands immense respect and admiration. In the Australian landscape he stands out as a figure of great integrity and spiritual depth, far removed from considerations of mere fashion or political correctness. Four ensembles will join forces in a celebration of Butterley's most compelling chamber and vocal music, alongside that of his important influences and kindred spirits:  Michael Tippett, Olivier Messiaen, Sofia Gubaidulina, Priaulx Rainier, Jonathan Harvey and our own Elliott Gyger.  Please join us for what promises to be the most thoughtful and poetic musical weekend of the year!
 
Concert 1 - Saturday 3 September, 8pm
Halcyon & Ensemble Offspring
Works by Butterley, Harvey, Messiaen, Rainier & Tippett
 
Concert 2 - Sunday 4 September, 3pm
The Song Company
Works by Butterley, Gubaidulina & Hildegard of Bingen
 
Concert 3 - Sunday 4 September, 6pm
The Seymour Group
Works by Butterley & Gyger
 
Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
All concerts are approximately one hour duration
Full price $28; Concession & Under 30 $20 (2 concerts for $50 / $35; or 3 concerts for $70 / $45)
Bookings tel 02 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door

austraLYSIS SoundVision 2005
 
(S)pacing the Sound: Algorithmic Mirages
 
austraLYSIS continues its exploration of the visibility of sound, and the sonification of image, using algorithmic and performance approaches. New works of NoiseSpeech, a genre developed by austraLYSIS, will be juxtaposed with sound and image, and text and sound pieces. Premieres will include a slowly paced video-sound piece presently entitled MovingJazz. Work by new austraLYSIS member, the well known electroacoustic composer David Worrall, will be complemented by the improvisatory and compositional contributions of other members.
 
Roger Dean, keyboards, computers; Hazel Smith, texts; Sandy Evans, saxophones; Phil Slater, trumpets; Greg White, computers, spatialisation.
 
Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
8pm Saturday 24 September 2005
Full price $28; Concession & Under 30 $20
Bookings tel 02 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door

HALCYON
 
TONE BIRDS
 
Renowned for its intelligent and fascinating programming, Halcyon presents breathtaking Finnish, French and Icelandic music and words in its final performance for 2005. From icy winters where the sun hardly sets, to the celebratory worship of nature and all it means to be human, this strange and beautiful music celebrates inevitable change, in landscape and in life. The program includes works by Olivier Messiaen, Michael Berkeley, Manuel de Falla and Kaija Saariaho, plus the world premiere of Rosalind Page's Hrafnsongvar.

Alison Morgan, soprano; Jenny Duck-Chong, mezzo soprano; Sophie Cole, violin; Steve Meyer, flute/piccolo; Liz Chee, oboe/cor anglais; Diana Springford, clarinet/bass clarinet;  Genevieve Lang, harp; Sally Whitwell, piano

Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
8pm Saturday 29 October 2005
Full price $28; Concession & Under 30 $20
Bookings tel 02 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door

Aårk
 
The Light Garden
 
Aårk continues the exploration of new music from outstanding international composers with a program of Australian premieres from across the globe. Featured will be the exquisite ensemble work The Light Garden Trilogy by Australian composer Sadie Harrison, based on text from the tomb of an Afghani king found in a secret garden above the Kabul valley:
            Only this mosque of beauty, this temple of nobility,
            constructed for the prayer of saints and the epiphany of cherubs,
            was fit to stand in so venerable a sanctuary as
            this highway of archangels, this theatre of heaven,
            the light garden
 
Aårk, conducted by Paul Smith, welcome exciting Brisbane clarinettist Richard Haynes and outstanding Sydney pianist Sally Whitwell to our 2005 season.
 
VERBRUGGHEN HALL, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
8pm Friday 11 November
Full Price $28 / Concession and Under 30 $20
Bookings tel 02 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door

New Music @ The Sound Lounge

Seymour Centre, Cnr City Road & Cleveland Street, Chippendale
 
1.         David Chesworth Ensemble  (Melbourne)
            6.15pm Sunday 31 July 2005
 
‘The aural palettes, in turn minimalist, vibrant, mesmerising and even industrial, defy easy categorisation.' The Herald Sun, Melbourne

David Chesworth’s music is deceptive. At times innocent, sometimes ironic, and often humorous. It is instantly recognisable yet it captures and beguiles its audience This performance by the David Chesworth Ensemble celebrates the release of their new CD Music To See Through. The David Chesworth Ensemble features well-known performers and vast array of orchestral and exotic instruments in a feast of striking, scraping, blowing, shaking, pushing, pulling and plucking.
 
Full price $17; Concession & Under 30 $12
Bookings tel 02 9351 7940 or tickets available at the door
 
2.         Gauche
            8.15pm Wednesday 10 August 2005
If the members of Gauche were painters rather than musicians, they’d be left handed abstract expressionists… their colourful pieces twist, disfigure and surprise at every sudden turn.’ – Drum Media 2005.

The musicians from Sydney electro band Gauche come from Hermitude, Cantillation, Monsieur Camembert, Circus Monoxide, Darth Vegas and Mr Bamboo; Gauche is where their influences merge. Contorting traditional song structure and drawing on innumerable musical reference points, they are crafting a sound all their own. Their debut album Paints Lane was released in March 2005 through Invada Records and they have since been performing to sellout crowds at venues like Sydney's Candy's Apartment and The Basement.
Full price $17; Concession & Under 30 $12
Bookings tel 02 9351 7940 or tickets available at the door

3.         Jeremy Barnett - 'Legal Highs'
            8.15pm Wednesday 5 October 2005

The marimba is one of the world’s most ancient instruments. So what now for the 21st Century? Fresh from travels in the USA, Sydney percussionist Jeremy Barnett has worked with some of the world’s leading contemporary musicians, and been acclaimed for his "wildly exhilarating solos" (RealTime). Jeremy has put together a night of both the new and the strangely familiar. Caught somewhere between a concert hall, pub, club and jazz bar, Jeremy will perform some of the newest classics of the marimba repertoire alongside two Australian premieres for marimba and violin. Features of the night include electro/acoustic improvisations using the latest in live electronics technology and works by Steve Reich, Nigel Westlake and Alejandro Vinao.
 
Full price $17; Concession & Under 30 $12
Bookings tel 02 9351 7940 or tickets available at the door
 

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