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> Photos from Sonic Connections 2004
> Sonic Connections 2004 Official Program
Sonic Connections 2004 – a celebration
of new music, new musical instrument design and new
tuning systems - takes place Friday 10th and Saturday
11th September at the University of Wollongong.
Like Sonic Connections 2003, this year’s festivities
include concerts of new music in alternative tuning
systems, new music for purpose-built instruments and
electronic systems and new applications of spatialised
audio.
This year’s Sonic Connections will also feature
percussionists playing tuned
wineglasses tuned in 29-note per octave just scales
in a new work by Amanda Cole, a mobile sound installation
that combines MIDI instruments and satellite tracking
technology devised by this year’s Artist-in-Residence
Iain Mott (see image on left >), a purpose-built
guitar tuned in just intonation for a new work composed
and played by Christiaan van der Vyver and new interactive
electronic instruments purpose-built by Mark Havryliv
and Warren Summers.
Catherine Schieve and Warren Burt will also present
new works on a modern reconstruction of the early Grainger-Cross
Free Music instruments.
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Grainger-Cross Free Music Machine
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Wine Glasses tuned in just intonation
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This year’s Sonic Connections will include concerts
of work by local artists, staff and students including
Andrew Schultz, Wayne Dixon and new works by Houston
Dunleavy performed under his direction. An audio-visual
composition by Stephen Gard will be featured alongside
assorted instrumental and electronic compositions and
Melbourne-based flautist Jean Penny will perform works
by Marco Stroppa. Drama and Music
students under the direction of Linda Nichols-Gidley
and Greg Schiemer will present a performance of Cornelius
Cardew’s Great Learning Paragraph 7.
The event will also feature
sound installations by Canberra-based composers David
Worrall, Roger Dean and Mitchell Whitelaw and works by Greg Schiemer,
Guillaume Potard, Warren Burt, Jon Drummond and Melissa
Seeto.
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Sonic Connections 2004 Official Program
 CHESS
(Configurable Hemispheric Environment for Spatialised
Sound) is an immersive sound environment.
CHESS, is an interdisciplinary research initiative that
involves the Faculty of Informatics and the Faculty
of Creative Arts and was officially launched at Sonic
Connections 2003 by Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research)
Professor Margaret Sheil and the Dean of Informatics
Professor Joe Chicharo.
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