The 8th Totally Huge New Music Festival is held from Friday 20 April to Sunday 6 May 2007.
From orchestral extravaganzas and sound galleries to wire installations across the Swan River, the Totally Huge New Music Festival provides a captivating showcase of New Chamber Music, Electronica, Installations, Improvisation, Radiophonics, Multimedia and Sound Art by hundreds of musicians from Western Australia and around the world.
This is now a binennial event (which explains why I didn’t come across it last year!) and there are many events which make up this festival, some of which you wil need to book tickets for, which you will find at the BOCS website.
Highlights include:
Festival Welcome Concert at the Fly By Night in Fremantle on 7 April with The Song Company and pi
* The Song Company (Syd) – Australia’s leading vocal ensemble
* Michel van der Aa (Netherlands) – one of Europe’s leading composers
* Claire Edwardes (Syd) – Australian percussionist extraordinaire
* WASO New Music Ensemble presenting New Works by Andrew Ford, Brett Dean and Michel van der Aa at the Art Gallery of WA
* Philip Brophy (Melb) – leading Australian composer/filmmaker
* William Barton (Bris) – indigenous composer and didgeridoo player
* Stump-Linshalm (Austria) – virtuosic Austrian clarinet duo
* Martin Wesley Smith /Ros Dunlop (NSW) – Film/Electronics
* SONIC IMAGE – Festival Conference 27th – 29th April
Presented in association with WAAPA, Key Notes: Michel van der Aa and Phillip Brophy
* Sunn0))) (USA) & Boris (Japan) – ambient, drone, doom metal, noise band – 3 May at Club Capitol, tickets via Heatseeker
The Finale is held on Saturday 5 May at the Art Gallery of WA featuring The Song Company, Barton and Edwardes. This unique All Star performance of voice, percussion, didgeridoo, and cello will be a virtuosic celebration of Australian New Music.
See the Tura New Music website for more details.
