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Welcome to the 2011 Events

The 2011 concert series promises to be the most exciting series of events in the relatively short history of the NMN. This year our series takes place in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Ballarat, Canberra, Campbelltown, Tasmania and Pomona putting our members in front of city and regional audiences. With venues ranging from the Melbourne Recital Centre to a suburban loungeroom, the series presents new music with immediacy and intimacy. The series is rich in collaborative artistic work that encompasses our members and the wider artistic community: Ensemble Offspring join The Now Now; Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey’s Music for Imagined Dancers at Dancehouse; Topology meet Mistineterpretato; and many more. The 2011 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address will be presented by the Artistic Director of Opera Australia, Lyndon Terracini and the mini-series showcases the finest up and coming exponents of new music in the fields of electronic, acoustic, improvisatory and composed musical performance.

We look forward to you joining us as we share with you this eclectic and exciting year of concerts and events.

James Nightingale
President, New Music Network

Aphids

VOID LOVE: Online Soap Opera

VOID LOVE, an online soap opera about space has been developed through a residency with Swinburne University’s Department of AstroPhysics and Supercomputing – leading institute in the discovery of new galaxies in our universe and next generation astronomy. VOID LOVE features interviews with leading astronomy scientists such as Dr Christopher Fluke, the deep voice of Kamahl as narrator, and the inimitable Bollywood classics scoring the weighty issues at the heart of the cosmos.
The opera stars Australian icon and heartthrob Kamahl, appearing with Jess Cornelius, the upcoming indie heroine of Teeth and Tongue, and Melbourne’s incredible sequin donning Bollywood orchestra The Bombay Royale. During the live concert in February 2011 the deep space soap opera episodes were launched into the digital ether. You can view the opera online by going to: www.voidlove.tv

MADELEINE FLYNN | TIM HUMPHREY

MUSIC FOR IMAGINED DANCES

A dance piece created through the act of listening.
A sound exhibition for possible dance.
An encounter in a small room.
Music for Imagined Dances creates a space for expansive listening. From a vast collection of historic and contemporary compositions, each interaction spontaneously generates a unique music compilation triggering the inner choreographer in each participant. Each compilation creates a unique and personal musical score and prompts the possibilities of dance within everyone.
Created by Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey with Owen McKern, Niklas Pajanti, Jesse Stevens and Letterbox. In collaboration with hundreds of composers.
Dates: Wednesday 15 March to Sunday 19 March, and Wednesday 22 March to Sunday 26 March 2011. 1pm-9pm. On the half hour.
Where: Dancehouse, 150 Princes St, Carlton, Melbourne.
Free event.
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Chamber Made Opera

MINOTAUR THE ISLAND

MINOTAUR THE ISLAND is the first part of a captivating new chamber opera which re-imagines the lost opera of Monteverdi, focusing on the tragic story of the Minotaur. It weaves together the mythological and visual symbolism of King Minos and his wayward wife, Pasiphae; the legendary hero Theseus; Ariadne and her spider web; the labyrinthine structure of the maze; and the terrifying figure of the Minotaur.
Composer: David Young, Writer/Director: Margaret Cameron, Performers: Deborah Kayser, Caroline Lee & Hellen Sky, Mark Cauvin (double bass), Matthias Schack-Arnott (percussion), Anastasia Russell-Head (harpsichord). MINOTAUR THE ISLAND has been co-commissioned by Ten Days on the Island and Dr Peta Gillingham. Photo by Daisy Noyes.
- TASMANIA -
Dates: 12.30pm, Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 March 2011
Where: Bruny Island, Tasmania Dennes Point Community Hall, 18 Main Road, Dennes Point. Tickets: $95 ...Click here for bookings and further information.
- MELBOURNE -
Dates: 9pm Friday 1 April, 8pm Saturday 2 & Sunday 3, April 2011
Where: A living room in St Kilda Road, Melbourne Tickets: $75
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Chamber Made Opera

DWELLING STRUCTURE

An Opera in 8 Time Use Episodes

A family home on historic Ruckers Hill. Please, sit down, make yourself at home. Welcome to Dwelling Structure: An Opera in 8 Time Use Episodes, where—to borrow from Emily Dickinson—you will dwell in possibility, a doorless house. Created by Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey and Cynthia Troup, with visual assemblage by Neil Thomas, and neighbourly interruptions by The Suitcase Royale.
Dates: 8pm, Thursday 26, Friday 27 & Saturday 28 May 2011
Where: A living room in Northcote, Victoria Tickets: $45
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Fat rain Music Series

UPSTAIRS @ THE GALLERY, BALLARAT

The Fat Rain Music Series is produced by Adam Simmons (saxophones, clarinets, flutes, shakuhachi, fujara, toys). Adam is a composer and sought after instrumentalist, involved across many different scenes and genres within Melbourne and beyond. Below Adam introduces and shares his experiences with the performers in the series:
Wang Zheng-Ting (sheing, Chinese mouth organ) is one of the most astounding musicians I have met, the instrument itself is like nothing you’ve seen and the control with which he plays is breathtakingly beautiful. He is also a lovely storyteller, with a wry sense of humour.
Well trained in traditional Japanese music, Noriko Tadano (shamisen (Japanese banjo), voice) is also pursuing a more contemporary style with her own compositions as well as eagerly engaging with improvisation. It’s always a delight to work with her as she has such a strong presence as a performer, whether playing shamisen, singing or both!
David Brown (prepared guitar) and I have performed thrashing free jazz since 1995 in bands bucketrider, Embers and The Dead Neckers. This duo explores a gentler approach, drawing on my studies of the Japanese shakuhachi and Dave’s interest in composer Takemitsu. It combines Dave’s prepared guitar played with chains, mini-fans, metal clips and wires attached and my shakuhachi and contrabass clarinet.
I first came to work with Wendy Morrison (piano) over 20 years ago and have always enjoyed the challenges her compositions have presented me as a performer. She is no stranger to Ballarat audiences although this is a rare opportunity to hear her compositions performed.
The world is a small place, having recently met Alessandra Garosi (piano) at the Alternativa Festival in Prague in 2010. I was struck by her masterful touch and control, as well as her humour and friendly manner of presentation. When she mentioned she was visiting Australia I immediately imagined a meeting between her and my long time friend, Wendy Morrison.
Concert 1: 7.30pm, Wednesday 13 April 2011
Noriko Tadano (shamisen) & Adam Simmons (shakuhachi, alto sax, contra alto clarinet)
Concert 2: 7.30pm, Wednesday 22 June 2011
Wang Zheng-Ting (sheing) & Adam Simmons (various woodwinds, toys)
Concert 3: 7.30pm, Wednesday 21 September 2011
David Brown (prepared guitar) & Adam Simmons (shakuhachi, contrabass clarinet)
Concert 4: 7.30pm, Wednesday 2 November 2011
Wendy Morrison (piano) & Alessandra Garosi (Italy) (piano)
Where: Art Gallery of Ballarat, 40 Lydiard St North, Ballarat, Victoria
Bookings: 03 5320 5858
Tickets: Full $25 | Conc. & Gallery Member $20 | Series Price $18, Series Conc. & Member $15 | Student $15. ...Click here for bookings and further information.

Ensemble Offspring
+ The Now Now

TREATISE

Ensemble Offspring joins the doyens of Sydney’s impro scene, the NOW now, for a radical evening of composed and improvised music. Performances by Ensemble Offspring and the Splinter Orchestra will compliment a rare and original rendering of Cornelius Cardew’s epic statement on musical democracy, Treatise.
Date: 8pm, Thursday 5 May 2011
Where: Red Rattler, 6 Faversham Street, Marrickville
Tickets: Full $25 | Concession and under 30 $15 | Tickets available at the door
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sunwrae ensemble

EAVESDROPPING TOUR FINALE 2011

The Sunwrae String Quintet, from Melbourne based nu chamber group Sunwrae Ensemble, perform a stunning musical experience of mind-bending textures, persuasive rhythms and spectacular improvisation. Crossing the boundaries between classical, jazz and world music with surprising immediacy and vibrancy, the Sunwrae grand piano and string quartet group is a feast for the eyes and ears, performing a lush blend of original music composed by director Rae Howell. Featuring new works inspired by recent residencies in Europe and South America, Sunwrae’s 2011 Eavesdropping Tour finale will stylishly captivate audiences with their exquisite performance of instrumental music, accompanied by live manipulated visual projections by River River.
Performers: Rae Howell (piano), Rachael Kim (violin), Zachary Johnston (violin), Phoebe Green (viola), Tim Blake (cello), River River (visuals).
Date: 8pm, Thursday 9 June 2011
Where: Iwaki Auditorium ABC Southbank Centre, Southbank
Tickets: Full $25 | Conc $20
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Ensemble Offspring

PROFESSOR BAD TRIP

Never heard of Italian composer Fausto Romitelli? His music is simply some the most exhilarating and virtuosic music ever written. If you’ve ever wondered what classical music under the influence of drugs sounds like, then the mind-bending psychedelic soundworld of Professor Bad Trip will leave you tripping. Also features the Australian premiere of Joytime Ride for Ives by Matthew Shlomowitz.
Performers: Conductor: Roland Peelman | Flute: Lamorna Nightingale | Clarinet: Jason Noble Oboe: Ngaire de Korte | Bassoon: Rob Llewellyn | Trumpet: Melanie McLoughlan Saxophone: Christina Leonard | Piano & Electronics: Zubin Kanga Percussion: Claire Edwardes | Electric Guitar: Geoffrey Morris Violin: James Cuddeford & Veronique Serret | Viola: James Eccles Cello: Geoffrey Gartner | Double & Electric Bass: Zoe Hauptmann
Date: 8pm, Saturday 18 June 2011
Where: Bay 20, CarriageWorks, Wilson Street, Eveleigh
Tickets: $40 Full | $20 Concession
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Continuum Sax | Sydney Chamber Choir

NORTHERN LIGHTS

It can sing, it can speak, it can sigh, and it will certainly seduce: the rich, sensuous tone of the saxophone is like no other instrument. Treat yourself to a feast of sound, with music for choir and saxophone quartet from a northern New World of contemporary music: Latvia, Estonia and Georgia are young nations with rich, ancient musical traditions that have passed through the oppression of the Soviet era and emerged full of hope and life. Music by Giya Kancheli, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Urmas Sisask, Eriks Esenvalds and Arvo Pärt, plus the world premiere of a new work by Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth.
Performers: Sydney Chamber Choir, directed by Paul Stanhope.
Continuum Sax: Christina Leonard, James Nightingale, Martin Kay, Nicholas Russoniello.
Date: 7:30pm, Saturday 17 September 2011
Where: The Independent 269 Miller Street, North Sydney
Tickets: Full $48 | Concessions $32 | Students $20
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What is Music?
+ West Head Project

Three concerts in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. These site specific outdoor performances will be driven by collaborators Jim Denley (saxophone) and Robbie Avenaim (percussion). In each site Jim and Robbie will work with a special local collaborator and instrument builder. In Sydney: Kraig Grady (US composer sound artist) works with his own acoustic instruments, including metallophones, marimbas, hammered dulcimers and reed organs tuned to microtonal just intonation scales. Brisbane: Ross Manning’s instruments have one foot in sound art, the other in sculpture. Melbourne: Ernie Althoff is a composer, performer, instrument builder and artist who has worked in Melbourne since the mid-1970s.
- BRISBANE -
4pm, Sunday 2 October 2011
Nudgee Beach Reserve, Meet at end of O’Quinn Street, Nudgee Beach
- SYDNEY -
4pm, Sunday 9 October 2011
Middle Head, Middle Head Rd, Sydney Harbour National Park, Mosman
- MELBOURNE -
4pm, Sunday 16 October 2011
Pipemakers Park, Van Ness Ave, Maribyrnong
Entry by donation: Full $30 | Conc $20
Places are limited please phone: 0411 606 077 to reserve at space.

Clocked Out Duo | Continuum Sax

DREAMS YOU MIGHT NOT COME BACK FROM

Continuum Sax and Clocked Out Duo team up to present the world premiere of a new work by Erik Griswold and Margery Smith. This work builds upon the collaborative work initiated between these groups in the collective of Australian composer/performer ensembles in the 2008 Restrung Festival. Erik and Margery’s work’s spans across the boundaries of composed and improvised music, exploring the unexpected beauty that unfolds. Approachable and intriguing, their music blends minimalism, contemporary and popular genres. Clocked Out Duo have a history of finding the unexpected music within everyday and found objects, while Continuum Sax explore a sound world that is an exciting extension of the saxophone’s range of expression. The combination of piano, percussion and saxophones promises to develop an intriguing world of pulsating, shimmering sound and colour. This performance will delight and amaze with its delicacy, passion, and wry humour.
Performers: Margery Smith (composer, saxophone, clarinet), Erik Griswold (composer, piano), Vanessa Tomlinson (percussion). Continuum Sax: Christina Leonard, James Nightingale, Martin Kay, Nicholas Russoniello.
- BRISBANE -
Date: 6.30pm, Wednesday 19 October 2011
Where: Ian Hanger Recital Hall, Queensland Conservatorium, Tickets: $15 - $30
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or phone (07) 3735 6241
- SYDNEY -
Date: 8pm, Saturday 22 October 2011
Where: Campbelltown Arts Centre, Tickets: $15 - $30
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or phone 02 4645 4100, 02 8256 2222

Topology | Misinterprotato

HEALTHY

‘Healthy’ from renowned Brisbane ensembles Topology and Misinterprotato, marks a collaboration full of vitality, vibrancy and the desire for new beginnings. Misinterprotato takes a completely fresh look at the classic jazz piano trio and Topology has reinvented chamber music and the combination is breathtaking. Featuring infectious grooves and seductive melodies, the ‘Healthy’ collaboration could be compared to the sounds minimalist sounds of Michael Nyman, Terry Riley and Steve Reich, with a touch of Astor Piazolla, and the modern jazz influences of Pat Metheny. Wrap this up in the visual, cinematic style of Bernard Hermann and the Cinematic Orchestra and you’re getting close.
‘Chronicling significant life stages, it is at times introspective, encompassing complex interludes and the bittersweet, culminating in a celebration that captures the chiaroscuro of change.’ Rachel Concroft, Media Culture Reviews.
Performers: Topology: Robert Davidson (double bass), John Babbage (sax), Christa Powell (violin), Bernard Hoey (viola), Kylie Davidson (piano); Misinterprotato: Sean Foran (keyboard), John Parker (percussion), Pat Marchisella (bass) with Brett Cheney (sound engineer).
Date: 7.45pm, Saturday 22 October 2011
Where: The Majestic Theatre, 3 Factory St, Pomona, Queensland
Tickets: Concert Pre-booked $25 | $28 at the door. Concert and two-course meal $45.
Bookings Essential Phone: 07 5485 2330

Chronology Arts

IMMERSION

‘In association with the New Music Network, Chronology Arts plugs in for a new electroacoustic event directed by world-renowned Australian composer, digital media artist Daniel Blinkhorn. Featuring six brand new fixed-media and live electronic works presented in multichannel surround sound, Immersion invites audiences to experience music in all three dimensions – music exploring sonic space, gesture, motion and envelopment – a collection of unique and immersive surround sound ecologies.
Performers: Chronology Arts Ensemble, Daniel Blinkhorn & guests.
Date: 7pm, Friday 28 October 2011
Where: The Red Rattler Theatre, 6 Faversham Street, Marrickville
Tickets: Full $30 | Concession & Under 30 $20 | Tickets available at the door
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SYNERGY | Speak Percussion

CITY JUNGLE

This groundbreaking and unlikely project brings together the two major forces in contemporary Australian percussion, Synergy (Sydney) and Speak Percussion (Melbourne). An all-new double-bill event, City Jungle is presented in collaboration with major artists Terminal Sound System and Noxious Aquatic. City Jungle explores the dramatic and intricate sound world of Jungle and Drum’n’Bass, two of the hallmark British electronica genres that have their roots in the Amen-break played in 1969 by drummer G.C. Coleman for funk and soul band ‘The Winstons’.
That many percussionists have a fascination with DnB, is perhaps not surprising. When at its best, it weaves complex webs of syncopated rhythms and textures, its funk and soul heritage intensified by contemporary technology. Despite these connections and appeal, the music’s fast tempi have kept its performance largely the domain of DJs in nightclubs. Until now.
Details: 19-22 October 2011 at the Seymour Centre. Book tickets online.
Information: www.speakpercussion.com | www.synergypercussion.com

Lyndon Terracini presents
13th peggy glanville-hicks address

Populism as Art and the Art of Populism

In this time of extraordinary change where major art galleries present fashion designers in major exhibitions, digital ‘art’ is everywhere, and the populism of art as a government imperative is ubiquitous, how does a ‘heritage’ artist relate to our ‘fast food, quick fix’ society.
Lyndon Terracini is an operatic baritone and current Artistic Director of Opera Australia. Terracini’s professional operatic debut was in 1976, as ‘Sid’ in The Australian Opera’s Albert Herring at the Sydney Opera House. Before taking up his post at Opera Australia, he was Artistic Director of the 2001, 2003 and 2005 Queensland Music Festivals as well as Artistic Director/CEO of the 2006, 2008 and 2009 Brisbane Festivals. In 1993, Lyndon Terracini founded Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA), which developed into one of the most important performing arts organisations in regional Australia and was awarded the Myer Foundation Group Award in 2002.
- SYDNEY -
Date: 6pm, Wednesday 2 November 2011
Where: The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney
- MELBOURNE -
Date: 7.30pm, Friday 11 November 2011
Where: BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne
Free Event places are limited!
Reserve your seat by phoning: 0411 606 077
Photo by: Peter Derrett

Halcyon

FIRST STONES - 2011 EMERGING COMPOSER PROJECT

Halcyon presents First Stones, a unique performance showcasing new Australian works by some of our most talented emerging composers. Throughout 2011 young composers from around Australia will take part in a series of workshops to develop their vocal writing skills under the guidance of Halcyon and composer-mentor Elliott Gyger, resulting in a collection of short songs for voice and instruments. The new works will be developed and workshopped throughout the year, a process which will culminate in this First Stones performance by Halcyon.
Artists: Alison Morgan (soprano), Jenny Duck-Chong (mezzo soprano), Diana Springford (clarinets), Geoffrey Gartner (cello), Genevieve Lang (harp), Sally Whitwell (piano).
Date: 7.30pm, Saturday 19 November 2011
Where: Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Tickets: Adults $30 | Concession $20 and Under 30 | Tickets available at the door
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Kammer Ensemble

BRETT DEAN AT 50

KAMMER Ensemble celebrate a landmark birthday of one of Australia’s most dynamic composers Brett Dean. Dean’s time in Germany lead to a friendship with German neo-expressionist composer, Wolfgang Rihm. Kammer will pair up these two composer’s works in concert. Brett Dean will appear as violist as well as composer in his work, Some Birthday.
Program: Brett Dean Demons (solo flute); Night Window (clarinet, viola, piano); Some Birthday (2 violas, cello), and a New work (commissioned by the Australia Ensemble @UNSW, Nash Ensemble, London and Eighth Blackbird, Chicago) (flute, clarinet, violin or viola, cello, piano, percussion (2011)).
Rihm Chiffre IV (bass clarinet, cello, piano); Uber Der Linie VI (flute, violin, cello)
- SYDNEY -
Date: 7.30pm, Saturday 3 December 2011
Where: Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium
Tickets: Adult $30 | Concession and Under 30 $20 | Tickets available at the door
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or phone (02) 8256 2222
- MELBOURNE -
Date: 4pm, Sunday 4 December 2011
Where: Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank
Tickets: Full $35 | Concession $25
Bookings: Phone (03) 9699 3333, www.melbournerecital.com.au

austraLYSIS

FILM OF SOUND

austraLYSIS will premiere a film-music work, Film of Sound: the film is composed in immediate relation to the sound structure, rather than in the more usual converse relationship. The film will have surfaces that are physical, abstract, human and inanimate. At times it will have verbal content displayed, spoken or deconstructed amongst the sound-image field. This work will be made in a new collaboration with US film-maker Will Luers. Film will also be the basis for a second piece, a real-time manipulation performance, Film Moves in which austraLYSIS use video material for continuous transformation, partnered by an algorithmically synaesthetic sound process. Active viewer and performer transformation of the visual and sonic worlds are at the core of this pair of pieces, which will be complemented by electroacoustic and audio-visual work from David Worrall, an Australian pioneer in the field, and Daniel Blinkhorn, both creative members of austraLYSIS. There will also be computer-interactive improvisation and new composition by austraLYSIS members.
Performers and Creators: Roger Dean, Sandy Evans, Phil Slater, Hazel Smith, Greg White, Will Luers.
Date: 8pm, Saturday 10 December 2011
Where: Recital Hall East Sydney Conservatorium
Tickets: Adult $30 | Concession and Under 30 $20 | Tickets available at the door
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new music mini series

1. Mike Majkowski
and Decibel

MIKE MAJKOWSKI Distillations (solo double bass): I have always been interested in the idea of playing solo. In 2008, I began an autodidactic study of my solo performance, and as I am interested in exploring how the use of self-devised extended techniques could develop the sound and style of a work. This led me to consider how these technical possibilities create dialogues between each other and within one another, and how the physical technique of sound production can shape a piece of music. Within this concert my intention is to present the aspects of duration, sound and pulse via sustaining and distilling specific self-devised extended techniques. Hence the title: Distillations.
DECIBEL are a new music ensemble from Western Australia. Their focus is on Australian music combining acoustic and electronic instruments. Artistic Director Cat Hope leads an eclectic group of composers, sound artists, performers and programmers that innovate score formats and ways of performing new music. Decibel are: Cat Hope (artistic director, flute and electronics), Lindsay Vickery (reeds, programming and electronics), Stuart James (piano, percussion, programming and electronics), Malcolm Riddoch (guitar, networking and electronics), Tristen Parr (cello).
- CANBERRA -
Decibel
Date: 8pm, Saturday 14 May 2011 Where: Street Theatre, Canberra
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- SYDNEY -
Mike Majkowski | Decibel
Date: 5pm, Sunday 15 May 2011
Where: Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium
Tickets: Adult $20 | Concession and Under 30 $12 | Tickets available at the door
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2. Ben Carey and Chi-Uro

ELECTRO PERSPECTIVE

Sydney-based saxophonist, composer, technologist Ben Carey will in this program perform three new works for solo saxophone and live electronics. Each piece on the program explores different approaches to the use of the saxophone in live electronics performance, encompassing multichannel sound diffusion, live sound processing and computer listening and improvisation techniques. Included in the program will be two world premières by Australian composers Mark Oliveiro and Ben Carey, as well an Australian première by American composer Dan Tramte. Melbourne-based Chi-Uro were formed in 2010 by Kim Tan and Samuel Dunscombe and are committed to staging rarely performed new works and commissioning works from Australian composers. The ensemble’s programs bring the enormously versatile, and still relatively uncharted, sonic palette of wind instruments to the fore, as well as augmenting and enhancing their instruments with live electronics. This program focuses on various ways in which the sonic palette of traditional wind instruments has been extended and augmented over the past 20 years – from extended techniques to the use of live electronics. It features two Australian Premiers, and one World Premier.
DATE: 8pm, Saturday 11 June 2011
WHERE: Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium
TICKETS: Adult $20 | Concession and Under 30 $12 | Tickets available at the door.
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3. MAC Ensemble

World was in the face of the beloved –,
but suddenly it poured out and was gone:
world is outside, world cannot be grasped.
From Rilke’s Uncollected Poems, 1922-1926
We live in a fragile world. If human activity continues to heat the earth to the point of a 6-degree temperature rise over the arctic circle, then half the world’s permafrost will likely thaw, releasing millions of tons of methane gas into the atmosphere. The resultant damage would be both catastrophic and irreversible.
Welcome to our ‘Grand Hotel Abyss’, our ‘Restaurant at the End of the Universe’! Observe from the comfort of your seat this unfolding tragedy. Are we listening to the soundtrack of nature’s impending destruction, or are we distracting ourselves with our fascination with sound? Of course the question is really: what role can art music play for the current world-in-crisis? With these complex questions in mind, four Brisbane composers set nature poetry to new music. In addition we will hear the works of Luciano Berio, John Cage, Gérard Grisey, Giacinto Scelsi and Beat Furrer, composers with a special relationship to instrumental possibility and the world at large.
Date: 8pm, Saturday 23 July 2011
Where: Campbelltown Arts Centre
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4. Fresh Meat E-merging

Presented by the New Music Network and the Melbourne Recital Centre
Bringing together the current emerging generation of composers in Australia to present the Melbourne audience with a programme of representative works which communicate the strength and voice of each individual composer’s artistic expression, underlining the relevancy of the diversity present in today’s modes of music making. This event will foster connections between emerging composers and performers not only in Melbourne but from a national pull of artists, laying important foundations for further exchanges and developments of this initiative in new music.
The concert will include works by Amy Bastow, Alex Pozniak, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Luke Paulding, Timothy Tate, Melody Eötvös, Chris Williams, Nicole Murphy, Anthony Moles, Mark Wolf, Mark Olivero and Joseph Twist.
Date: 6pm, Thursday 25 August 2011
Where: Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank
Bookings: (03) 9699 3333 or online www.melbournerecital.com.au
Tickets: Full $35 | Concession & Under 30 $25 | Tickets available at the door

5. ensemble fabrique

RIBBONS OF RUST

ensemble fabrique presents ribbons of rust a concert incorporating the whirring, spinning, sighing and clanking of reel to reel tape machines, found objects, several broken skylark violins, acoustic instruments and ¼ inch magnetic tape. Four Brisbane composers create new works for an ensemble of flute, violin, cello, piano and percussion. The pairing of four tape installations result in a concert of composed and semi-improvised work through a live interactive electronic tape component. Reel to reel machines weave tape loops around the ensemble, piano, the support structure of the building and the whole performance space with each installation whirring to life during the performance. A Q&A style seminar will occur before the concert with the composers and performers to explain the collaborative composition and rehearsal process. The space is also open to the public 1 hour prior to the performance for viewing of each tape installation.
Date: 7pm, Friday 23 September 2011, pre-concert talk 6.30pm
Where: Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
Installations open to public at 6pm
Performers: Latham Horn (flute), Natalie Little (violin), Braxton Neate (cello), Stephanie Linsdell (piano), Cameron Kennedy (percussion), Timothy Tate (electronics)
Tickets: $25 Adult | Concession $15
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Venues

ART GALLERY OF BALLARAT, VIC
40 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat
Bookings: (03) 5320 5858

BMW EDGE, VIC
Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au

BRUNY ISLAND, TAS
Dennes Point Community Hall, 18 Main Rd, Dennes Point, Tasmania
Internet: www.tendaysontheisland.org

CAMPBELLTOWN ARTS CENTRE, NSW
Cnr Camden and Appin Rds, Campbelltown
Bookings: (02) 4645 4100, (02) 8256 2222
Internet: www.cityrecitalhall.com

CARRIAGEWORKS, NSW
Wilson Street, Eveleigh
Bookings: 1300 723 034
Internet: www.ticketmaster.com.au

CITY RECITAL CENTRE, ANGEL PLACE
Bookings: (02) 8256 2222
Email: tickets@cityrecitalhall.com
Internet: www.cityrecitalhall.com

DANCEHOUSE, VIC
150 Princes St, Carlton, Melbourne

IAN HANGER RECITAL HALL, QLD
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
16 Russell Street, South Bank
Phone: (07) 3735 6241
www.griffith.edu.au/concerts

INDEPENDENT THEATRE, NSW
269 Miller Street, North Sydney
Bookings: 1300 661 738

IWAKI AUDITORIUM, VIC
ABC Southbank, Southbank, Melbourne

JUDITH WRIGHT CENTRE, QLD
420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
Bookings: www.jwcoca.qld.gov.au

MAJESTIC THEATRE, QLD
3 Factory Street, Pomona
Bookings: (07) 5485 2330

MIDDLE HEAD, Manly National Park
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au

THE MINT, NSW
1 Macquarie Street, Sydney
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au

NUDGEE BEACH RESERVE, QLD
Meet at the end of O’Quinn St,
Nudgee Beach
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au

PIPEMAKERS PARK, VIC
Van Ness Ave, Maribyrnong
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au

THE RED RATTLER THEATRE, NSW
6 Faversham Street, Marrickville
Bookings: (02) 8256 2222
Email: tickets@cityrecitalhall.com
Internet: www.cityrecitalhall.com

THE SALON
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank
Bookings: (03) 9699 3333
Internet: www.melbournerecital.com.au

STREET THEATRE, ACT
15 Childers St, Canberra City West
Internet: www.thestreet.org.au

SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC
Macquarie St, Sydney
Bookings: (02) 8256 2222
Email: tickets@cityrecitalhall.com
Internet: www.music.usyd.edu.au

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