Don’t miss this chance to experience new and experimental acoustic and electronic music performance, installation, audio visual works, DJ artists and world premieres by Cat Hope, Lindsay Vickery, Roland Adeney, Malcolm Riddoch, as well as performances by Rachael Dease (Schevendes), Glenn Rogers, Elliot Hughes and Stuart James and many others. Wednesday night also features the first Australian performances of Austrian Composer Karlheinz Essl’s The Book of Sequiturs.

This exciting free festival of cutting-edge new music is curated by WAAPA’s Coordinator of Composition and Music Technology, Lindsay Vickery. 

Vickery said: “This event showcases everything the WAAPA Composition and Music Technology course has to offer! Be prepared to be stimulated, excited, challenged and thrilled – get ready for surround sound, noise, post-modern composition, dub, ambient, electronica and more – hear music like you never have before.”

Special events include:

MONDAY 9 MAY

7 – 8pm 

ALETHEIA MUSIC ENSEMBLE 

WAAPA's Internet music ensemble, Aletheia, perform live collaborations with students from UTS and RMIT utilizing live streaming technology. 

Aletheia are:

Bob White (aka The Boost Hero Man), Charlie Daly, Liz Bonny, Suzanne Kosowitz, Mitch Mollison, Sam Gillies and Caitlin Woods

For University of Technology Sydney: 

Roger Mills, Jordan Dorjee and Hugo Smart

8 – 9pm

CERTIFIABLE

New and experimental works composed and performed by Certificate IV Composition & Music Technology students:

Joshua Cammack, Tayo Snowball and Maxwell Vickery.

TUESDAY 10 MAY

7 – 8pm

ECUATORIAL 1

First year student composers ensemble perform Title From SJ

8 – 9pm

ECUATORIAL 3

Third year student composers ensemble perform NETWrOK. Music for networked computers, screened scores and acoustic instruments.

Laura LOWTHER and George CAPELAS

Kevin PENKIN and Matthew MCLEAN

Andrew CLARKE, Joel THURNER, Christopher HONEY and Louise PENMAN

Sophie VISSER, Kathleen WALTON-ROY, Caitlin WOODS, Rhys CHANNING and Sarah NELSON

Paul OLSEN and Jessica LAWRENCE

Henry James ANDERSEN and Michael TERREN

WEDNESDAY 11 MAY

7 – 8.30pm

THE BOOK OF SEQUITURS: 

Works for instruments and electronics by Karlheinz Essl

Sequitur I (2008) flute - Christie SULLIVAN

Sequitur II  (2008) bass clarinet - Lindsay VICKERY 

Sequitur V  (2008) toy piano - Aidan BOASE 

Sequitur VII (2008) alto saxophone - Jesse DEANE

Sequitur IX (2008) voice - Caitlin WOODS

“Sequitur is a series of compositions for various solo instruments and live-electronics which I started in 2008. Somehow it can be seen as a reference to Berio’s famous “Sequenze” cycle of solo pieces which focus on specific playing techniques of the respective instrument. Up to now I have finished more than a dozen pieces including orchestral instruments like flute and violin, but also for voice and more exotic ones such as electric guitar, toy piano and kalimba.”

“All Sequitur composition use a software written in MaxMSP which creates an electronic accompaniment from the instrument’s live input; the player is confronted with his own playing, and this creates a situation like moving in a house of mirrors where the identities becomes blurred. Each piece can be performed by the player alone who just has to press a key 

on the computer keyboard whenever this is indicated in the score. The software generates a complex canon on the fly, the temporal structure and density of which being controlled by random operations. This yields different results every time the piece is performed. Although following a precisely notated score, there is always a good portion of surprise for the musician which emphasizes his awareness and attentiveness.” - Karlheinz Essl

8.30 - 10pm

Grab It!

Works for instruments and electronics performed by Postgraduate students:

Jakob TER VELDHUIS – Grab it! (1999) Tenor Saxophone - Erin ROYER

Caitlin WOODS - piano piece (2011) Simon Frosi

Dafna NAPHTALI - ICE 9  (1994) Flute -Georgia LANE

DAVIDSON - Coonowrin Round (1999) Guitar Melissa BRANSON

Nina STAMELL – losing sleep ((2011) Double Bass -Caitlin Bass

Lindsay VICKERY – Echo – Transform 1 (2010) Viola - Cheralyn SIMPSON  

Elliot HUGHES New Work  (2011)

9 – 11pm

DE(CON)STRUCTION ZONE

Interactive and Improv Mayhem - Various Artists Sam Gillies/Mitch Mollison, Bob White/Sam Timmerman/Thomas Greble/Elliot Hughes/Sam Gillies

THURSDAY 12 MAY

7 – 8.30pm

PostPOST

Stuart James - Particles I (2011) for Laptop, Arduino, Microphone, and Found Objects

“An artistic exploration of additive synthesis, sampling, granular synthesis, frequency domain resynthesis and spatialisation. This work involves the performing of timbre/spectra, multiple grains, and the spatialisation of spectral particles. The performance is representative of a work in progress centered around using Wave Terrain Synthesis as a means of controlling the evolutionary state of complex sound synthesis. The works initially will explore these various processes. Deeper compositional, aesthetic, and conceptual relationships will emerge in time.” – Stuart James

Glenn Rogers – New Work (2011) for Violin, Guitar, Tabla and Kanjera

Stuart James - Infinity Landscape 1 I (2011) for Infinity Machine and Laptop

“This work is one inspired by the invention of Alan Lamb’s Infinity Machine - a machine that uses feedback in a highly sophisticated system to develop layers of chaotic behavior. Taking this one stage further, I have developed software that also responds using chaotic structures, and the system is setup in such a way that the two instruments, Infinity Machine and Laptop, feed into each other. Again this work is an exploration into a process, and deeper compositional, aesthetic, and conceptual relationships will emerge in time.” – Stuart James

8.30 – 10pm

Shock of the New 

Cat Hope - Cruel and Usual (2011) for String Quartet – Premiere

Lindsay Vickery - Hunting Pack (2011) for cimbalom, electric guitar, electric piano and max/msp - Premiere

Roland Adeney - Excursion I (2011) for Grid System - Premiere

Malcolm Riddoch - Electroacoutic Bow For Bass (2011) for Bass and Max/MSP - Premiere

Rachael Dease – New Work (2011)

9 – 11pm

DE(CON)STRUCTION ZONE

Interactive and Improv Mayhem - Various Artists: Candied Limbs, Dis†urbia and more

FRIDAY 13 MAY

8pm – 12am

DE(CON)STRUCTION ZONE

DJ sets by :

The Boost Hero Man

Charlie Daly

Feeding Ear

Covering all things bass: dubstep, drum n’ bass, wobble, fidget and hip-hop with a bit of psy-trance thrown in for good measure….enjoy!

Performance Information: Sound Spectrum

Monday 9, Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11, Thursday 12 and Friday 13 May from 7pm.

The Velvet Lounge, The Flying Scotsman, 639 Beaufort St, Mount Lawley.

Entry is FREE.

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For further information or to discuss interview opportunities, please contact:

Anton Maz, Marketing Manager

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts 

Phone: (08) 9370 6817    Mob: 0404 699 772    Email: a.maz@ecu.edu.au