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Creativity Calendar

FORUMS

1 April Forum 1: Wildly Free, The Playhouse, 12.30-1.50pmHopkins, Encarnacao & Atherton—Free Improvisation Lachlan Skinner—Stars

6 MayForum 2: Digital Ramifications, The Playhouse, 12.30-1.50pmNakano/Doesken—Unspoken Voices-Unbroken Spirits (film)Rimmer—Ancestral Voices (electro-acoustic)Nakano/Doesken—Dancing for a Dancing Apsara through Rectangular Prisms (film) World Premiere

21 MayForum 3: The Hectic-Eclectic LifestyleThe Performance Space, 12.00-1.00pmPertout—Match Box Dance/Exposiciones (dance film)Sharon Williams—Quietness

SENIOR COMPOSITION STUDENTS

15 AprilChamber Concert 1, The Playhouse, 12.30pm

20 MayChamber Concert 2, The Playhouse, 12.30pm

4 JuneFilm Compositions, The Performance Space, 10.00am

DVD FILMS AT THE PLAYHOUSE

Barry Truax—Compositions in Eight-Channel Surround Keith Jarrett—The Art of Improvisation Martin Scorcese—No Direction Home (Bob Dylan) Wilco—I am Trying to Break Your Heart

Koji Nakano

“Nakano’s works reflect the relationship between beauty, form and imperfection through the formality of music”

(http://sites.google.com/site/composerkojinakano/home)

Tim Hopkins

“one of the boldest saxophone players in the land”

(The Age)

Andrián Pertout

“links to the traditions of high art styles in Japanese music … building in complexity and rhythmic complexity”

(John G. Bilotta, Geneseo, New York)

John Rimmer

“Ancestral Voices . . . There’s something really sensual about the sounds in this work . . . instrumental sources appear from behind the screen of electronically modified sound”

(Warren Burt, Music in New Zealand)

Interactive Creativity ForumsInner Secrets of Composers and Performative Interactions

in 2010

Four Internationally Renowned Composers discuss the inner secrets of composition with Staff & Student Performative Interaction

Tim Hopkins (Australia/New Zealand)

Koji Nakano (Japan/USA)

John Rimmer (New Zealand)

Andrián Pertout (Chile/Australia)

Penrith Campus (Kingswood site)

Forums 1 & 2: The Playhouse, Thursdays 12.30pm

Forum 3: The Performance Space (O), Friday 12.00pm

Forum 2: 6 May—Digital Ramifications

Koji Nakano (Japan/USA) and John Rimmer (New Zealand)

These contrasting composers explore digital media in a multiplicity of ways. Nakano interacts with traditional music ensembles of Southeast Asia, including Cambodian Pin Peat and Thai Piphat ensembles, in a digital interaction with San Francisco based film maker Tiffany Doesken. Rimmer works from a pure music basis to sculpt electro-acoustic sounds of a sensual and resonant nature that reveal Western instrumental sources.

Japanese composer Koji Nakano received his Bachelor Degree in composition with distinction, and Master’s Degree in composition with academic honors and distinction, Pi Kappa Lambda, from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he studied with Lee Hyla and John Harbison. Later, he studied with Dutch composer Louis Andriessen in Amsterdam and at the Royal Conservatory of Hague as the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program Artist. Koji received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at San Diego, where he studied with Chinary Ung. Nakano’s works reflect the relationship between beauty, form and imperfection through the formality of music. His recent work strives to merge several musical traditions and also make reference to theatre, philosophy, rituals and spirituality.

New Zealand composer John Rimmer was awarded a Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and studied at the University of Toronto with John Weinzweig and Gustav Ciamaga. He returned to New Zealand in 1969 and taught at the North Shore Teachers College before being appointed in 1974 to the staff of the School of Music at the University of Auckland where he taught for the next 25 years. In 1972 he was the Mozart Fellow (Composer-in-Residence) at the University of Otago. John Rimmer retired from his position at the University of Auckland in 1999 in order to devote his full attention to composing. He is one of New Zealand’s most distinguished composers and his many plaudits include the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music prize at Bourges for Fleeting Images.

Panel Chair: Ian Stevenson (Acting Head of Music)

Student Panellists: Rie Matsuzawa, Stephen Tivanovac, Shannon Said and Stephanie Doohan

Features:Nakano/Doesken: Unspoken Voices-Unbroken Spirits (film)Rimmer: Ancestral Voices (electro-acoustic)Nakano/Doesken: Dancing for a Dancing Apsara through Rectangular Prisms (film)—World Premiere

Forum 1: 1 April—Wildly Free

Tim Hopkins (Australian/New Zealand saxophonist) with Michael Atherton (percussion) and John Encarnacao (electric guitar)

This improvising saxophone player (formerly of the Mike Nock Band) strikes up an unpredictable free improvisation with UWS improvisers and explains his pop sensibility that combines with an experimental jazz impulse.

As part of the new vanguard of creative jazz musicians, Tim Hopkins is just as likely to be seen (and heard) jammin’ with a DJ, or at work in his home studio, as he is presenting a night of contemporary original music in classic jazz combo mode. A native New Zealander, Hopkins has spent most of his professional career based in Sydney, as well as at times being based in New York and New Zealand. He has worked with bassist Lloyd Swanton, pianist Mike Nock and toured NZ with DJ Yogi (Random Soul). As a composer and band leader he is recognized; Funkenstein was released by the ABC and he has won the National Jazz Award at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz in Australia. By the end of the 1990s he had recorded five CDs, toured South East Asia, Canada and Europe and performed at Jazz Festivals from Montreal to Melbourne.

Panel Chair: Dr Bruce Crossman

Student Panellists: Lachlan Skinner, Krispin Pahlke, Sharon Williams, Eve Schroeder and Naomi Cooper

Forum 3: 21 May—The Hectic-Eclectic Lifestyle

Andrián Pertout (Chile/Australia)

This culturally eclectic composer discusses how his in-depth understanding of both East Asian and Middle Eastern musical worlds both fuels his creative thought and reflects the intercultural multi-lingual nature of his life.

Chilean-Australian composer Andrián Pertout was born in Santiago, Chile, 17 October, 1963, and lived in Gorizia, Northern Italy for several years before finally settling in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. Over the years he has worked as a composer, performer, producer, arranger, writer and educator. In 2007, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the University of Melbourne. He has received numerous commissions, including for New York toy pianist Phyllis Chen, The University of Hong Kong Gamelan Orchestra and Australian pianist Michael Kieran Harvey. His music has also been performed in over twenty-five countries by orchestras that include the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Louisville Orchestra (USA), Orquestra Petrobrás Sinfônica (Brazil), and La Chapelle Musicale de Tournai (Belgium). Pertout’s work as a writer involves numerous music publications (Juke Magazine, Mixdown, Australian Musician). Some of the artists he has interviewed include Herbie Hancock, Steve Reich and Joe Satriani.

Panel Chair: Associate Professor Diana Blom

Student Panellists: Helen Huynh, Flora Lau, Yvonne Timperley and Claire Tredinnick

Features:Pertout—Match Box Dance/Exposiciones (dance film)

Interactive Creativity ForumsInner Secrets of Composers and Performative Interactions

Curators: Bruce Crossman & Ian Stevenson

This Interactive Creativity series sees ‘composer quiz composer’ in order to draw out the inner secrets of the composition process. Panels of staff and student composers will perform and engage with four internationally renowned composers from Japan/USA, Australia and New Zealand. Creativity will be centre stage with free improvisation, intercultural films and electro-acoustic work as well as student textual compositions. The ‘low end’ of the swamp—creative action—dominates to generate practice-based knowledge that people perceive aurally and within but articulate verbally.