NEWS
DREAM, SPILL, FEAR, PERCUSSION
This is a HUGE PERCUSSION
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ABC Documentary screening
The Glass Percussion Project's
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The Age: article & pic
After 3 highly successful
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Pedro Carniero
Stay tuned for details about
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Fritz Hauser - Maximum Arousal
We are delighted to be
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NY Debut SOLD OUT
THE GLASS PERCUSSION PROJECT
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IN-REVIEW intermezzo
"Intermezzo is a wonderful
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Speak w. Astra 2008
2008 performances with Astra
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Arcko Symphonic Project
In its first performance the
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about
Speak Percussion
Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti
Core Member Peter Neville
"...sent the audience once again into a frenzy. It was power playing at its best."
The Age
"At the end, the roar from the floor lifted the roof off the primitive performance space where four young men and one woman dazzled in a display that said all things positive about contemporary entertainment for the now generation."
The Australian
Speak Percussion is Melbourne's most diverse percussion arts enterprise, it's activities span a wide variety of contexts and genres ranging from regular music festival concerts to experimental hybrid-arts events. Speak Percussion presents a cross-section of percussive arts activity engaging percussion soloists through to large ensembles.
Speak Percussion has collaborated with installation artists, choreographers, dancers, instrument builders, visual artists, lighting designers, sound designers and architects.
Speak has been responsible for commissioning and premiering many Australian percussion works by composers Chris Dench, David Young, Anthony Pateras, Dal Babare, Kate Neal, Warren Burt, Peter Head, Stuart Greenbaum, Mark Pollard, Taran Carter, Brendan Colbert, Eugene Ughetti, Andrew Ford, Wally Gunn, Simon Charles, Jesmond Grixti, Kristian Ireland, Andrian Pertout, Eve Duncan, Kate Tempany, Alan Lee and Brett Anthony Jones.
Speak Percussion toured many capital cities in Australia and the European continent. Such activities included the performance of Australian music, various collaborations, presentations of masterclasses and workshop's.
Speak Percussion promotes Australian artists and pushes percussive activities into extraordinary territories.
News in Detail
DREAM, SPILL, FEAR, PERCUSSION
This is a HUGE PERCUSSION EXTRAVAGANZA and a new collaborative venture between SPEAK PERCUSSION and Brisbane based CLOCKED OUT. Featured in the show will be Matthias Schack-Arnott, Greg Sully, Peter Neville, Paul Lin, Shannon Rogers, Nozomi Omote, Vanessa Tomlinson and I. DREAM, SPILL, FEAR, PERCUSSION Sat 24 May 2008, 7:30 pm at Judith Wright Centre Music and kinetic sculpture merge in the percussion compositions of Erik Griswold. Brisbane's Clocked Out joins forces with Melbourne's Speak Percussion to present "Spill," "Strings Attached," "Fear" and other evocative music for prepared piano and percussion. "Through the intricately choreographed score of rolls and accents, the quivering ropes suggested gusts of wind or sound wave phenomena, in what became a percussion tour de force and kinetic sculpture all in one." - Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times Cost : $23/18
ABC Documentary screening
The Glass Percussion Project's INTERMEZZO was captured in a 30min feature documentary by the ABC. The first screening will be happening at 10pm on Tuesday the 27th of May, 2008 on ABC1. Watch the full process of how the work was created, from day 1.
The Age: article & pic
After 3 highly successful Glass Percussion Project performances at the 2008 Quiet Music Festival, The Age released a Festival wrap up in Monday the 14th's paper. Click on the link below to view.
Article: The Age
Stay tuned for details about Speak's debut performance with Pedro coming up in Melbourne on the 16th of June. Program to include Messiaen, Nancarrow, Vinao, Colbert, Xenakis and Bach. Pedro Carniero
Fritz Hauser - Maximum Arousal
We are delighted to be welcoming Fritz Hauser back to Melbourne in 2008. Speak Percussion will join with Fritz on Sunday the 13th of July in a performance at "the Toff in Town" in Curtain House, Swantson St. Melbourne. Stay tuned for the full line up and program.
NY Debut SOLD OUT
THE GLASS PERCUSSION PROJECT presented @ New York's legendary experimental music venue Roulette on Friday, February 16th was SOLD OUT. This event, proudly co-presented by Art Radio WPS1.org and Roulette attracted media attention from The New York Times, Urban Eye, The Best of New York Today: MUSIC Waiter, Another Round "Remember being amazed by the uncle who could make the wine glasses at restaurants sing?? Well, get ready for the grown-up version. Elaine Miles, a glass artist, has collaborated with the percussionist and composer Eugene Ughetti for, of course, the Glass Percussion Project. Using only hand-blown glass instruments (including over 200 gongs, 250 bowls, 40 udu drums and some suspended sheets and shards), Mr. Ughetti will perform music tonight inspired by themes like air, wind, thunder and water. Cheers. . For more info please visit:www.roulette.org or www.speakpercussion.com/projects.php
Roulette Website Link
"Intermezzo is a wonderful work, detailed and nuanced in its orchestration, with moments gentle, introspective, intense and virtuosic, drawing on the full range of percussion artistry. Overall, Intermezzo approaches a gesamkunstwerk with its coherent blend of visual, dramatic, compositional and technical elements, and its production involves a carefully rehearsed and tightly managed team effort." by Chris Reid for Real Time(issue 83). "Off on another challenging acoustic adventure, Melbourne percussionist Eugene Ughetti is currently showing why he is one of this country's most talented artists in the field of advanced contemporary music. The players use a generous, unabashedly contemporary vocabulary to communiate their work in a demonstration that often engrosses, presenting their spectators with an unrelenting inventiveness." by Clive O'Connell for The Age Real Time article-in full
2008 performances with Astra in Melbourne will be given on September 28 and December 7. The programs are focussed around Elliott Carter's centenary and new works/rarely performed works for percussion and choir. More info to come. Astra website
In its first performance the ARCKO Symphonic Project-conductor Timothy Phillips presents: Seven Fragments after Paul Celan, for chamber ensemble by Rohan Phillips.
Also featured: Speak Percussion, Elizabeth-Anne Nixon (organ) and the Silo String Quartet with works by Colbert, Hanson and Chisholm respectively.
WHEN: Sunday 8th June 2008 at 3pm
WHERE: Richmond Uniting Church, 314 Church Street, Richmond
Tickets: $20/$12 at the door enquiries on 0400 866 789
IN-REVIEW intermezzo
Speak w. Astra 2008
Arcko Symphonic Project