The Faculty of Creative Art’s School of Music and Drama is pleased to present Voltage
Voltage is the seasons final concert for 2nd and 3rd year Sound-Composition and Music Production (SCMP) students and will be presented over two nights, showcasing original works composed and performed by the students.
The collection of works incorporates a vast array of musical styles including traditional piano, guitar, voice and electronic audio-visual music. Over twenty students are involved in the production and performance of these once-only concerts and the events highlight the musical talent and experience enjoyed by the School.
Venue: Performance Space, 25:168, Faculty of Creative Arts
Dates: Thursday 15 May - Friday 16 May @ 8.00pm
Tickets: Single Show: Full $12 | Student/Conc. $8
Tickets: Double pass: Full $20 | Student/Conc. $15
Bookings: 02 4221 4889
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Voltage Programme...
Thursday 15 May 2008
Conductivity - Mark Kennedy
What would it sound like to amplify a washtub bass? Multi-instrumentalist Mark Kennedy will uncover the answer in this piece, which is influenced by indigenous percussion sounds, pygmy stick orchestras and junkyard bands.
The Swimming Hypnotist - Josh Holloway
Josh’s solo piano work is a musical representation of the behaviour of his pet turtle Franky. Different sections mimic the turtle’s movements. The main influence in Josh’s compositions is the Impressionist school of composers like Debussy and Ravel.
Coffee With Cream In It – Jake Phillips (AV) 2nd year student
Jake Phillips has labelled his work as absurd and obnoxious noise combined with the everyday images of coffee… with cream in it.
Incognito - Stuart Lester
Stuart likes to remove the pretentiousness from avant-garde laptop music. He is going to use the algorithmic composition program Pure Data to treat samples live, without taking the whole business too seriously of course…
Tofurky Stew - Sam Mills
Sam favours acoustic music, and Tofurky Stew is a medium-sized ditty for a solo vegetarian and his acoustic hollow-necked lapsteel.
Karen - Geoff Williams
Karen is an experimental piece using contact microphones on a bowling ball with live computer manipulation. During the piece, the bowling ball will be gradually destroyed.
Water - Mitchell Tighe
Mitchell is a talented guitarist who lends himself to varying styles of compositions. The solo guitar work Water, composed in 2005, uses spatial sounds to create its atmosphere.
Octatonic Noodles - John McKenna
John is a teacher, arranger, songwriter, organist and synth nut, but he somehow found time to create this solo piano improvisation, which uses only the octatonic scale, starting at C.
Horrors of War - Josh Rowles (AV)
*WARNING: This audiovisual piece contains graphic images. Josh’s piece emerged from a soundscape assignment with the brief of depicting an image. He then added his visuals to this soundscape to create an audiovisual work.
DJ Set - Luke Hildred
Luke developed this impromptu DJ set especially for Voltage, as most of his sets would span over several hours. Luke harnesses the progressive techno style, but his other influences include drum and bass and psychedelic trance music.
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Friday 16 May 2008
Rain On Tin - Robert Hughes
Rain falls, the storm approaches... Rob Hughes is a sound and visual composer as well as a science fiction enthusiast. He likes to create works that are needlessly complicated. Rob also likes to infuse other art forms with his music and this piece is his first foray into sound and sculpture.
Sun + Moon - Jarryd Roland and Steve Winnall
Combining acoustic instruments and live processing, this work, inspired by Garth Paine, aims to show a distorted view of reality.
Apocalypse Pie - Leigh Perrett
This piece uses Wii and Xbox controllers to manipulate live recorded material. Live sound will include tape decks and magnets, heat sink and singing bowl. All of this wizardry will be executed using the computer program Max MSP.
Antigone Preview - Evan Betreen, Robert Hughes and Steve Winnall (AV)
This piece is a preview for ‘Antigone’, a 3rd year theatre production that will be showing in June, week 15. Music and sound by Evan and Steven, video composition by Robert.
Peace - Tom Marland and Alfie Dallaway
Tom and Alfie both play guitar and enjoy jamming with each other. Their request for 100 Marshall amps and the London Philharmonic Orchestra fell through tonight, so we will be hearing a stripped back improvisation from the duo.
Get Out of My Head - A devised theatre piece Greg Foster (sound design), Alfie Dallaway, James Herrington and Glen Hitchon (score), Howard Taylor (AV), Adam Kember (actor), Tom Hitchens (lighting)
This is a collaborative work between 2nd and 3rd year students with talent ranging from composition, sound design, binge drinking and minor psychic powers. The piece explores the concept of a guilty conscience and is a contemplative venture into the mind of a tortured soul.
Solitude - Damien Dunstan
Due to his classical background, the piano is at the core of Damien’s compositions – either as a featuring instrument or the starting point for his ideas. Solitude was formed from the endless hours Damien has spent at the piano, and it conveys the solitude and introspection that this involves.
Sound Bites - Steve Winnall (AV)
Steve has taken audio recordings of himself eating and then arranged the sound clips into beats, a combination of organic and electronic methods.
Forgiven - Caitlin Dreise-Cochrane
Forgiven is a piece for piano, voice and guitar. Caitlin writes songs with emotive, raw lyrics and this work is no exception – a sad ballad about hurting a significant other and asking for forgiveness.
Deuterium Oxide - Gavin Bradley
Gavin has played guitar for 10 years and prefers heavier music, known for its use of guitar effects. Deuterium Oxide is an experimental improvisation of different guitar sounds.
Getting Out - James Love
James Love (tenor) and Nick Wilson (baritone / acoustic bass) discuss the pros and cons of going solo. Is it worth the gamble or are they in enough trouble already?
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