Sounds Like Rubbish
a concert of contemporary percussion and string music that engages with current environmental issues faced in Australia
The Mission To Seafarers \ 717 Flinders St, Docklands
Saturday 17th June \ 2pm and 7pm
Tickets $25 \ Concession $18
Join us at The Mission To Seafarers to experience the exceptional surround sound acoustics of the Norla Dome, and discover the allure of car springs, recycled metal tubes, and e-waste reimagined in unique musical contexts. Whether you have an interest in exploring new music or have a passion for the environment, this event has something for you.
The concert will feature world premieres of two newly-commissioned duos for percussion and string instruments by Ceridwen McCooey and Xiaole Zhan. You will also hear selected Australian works, each of which identifies and explores a local environmental issue. The third world premiere of this concert offers a quartet for found and repurposed ‘rubbish’ by WHACKollective’s own Oscar Tudge; exploring the process of recycling and its future implications in our community.
Programme:
Eve Duncan – Time and the Tides, for percussion quartet (2009)
Peter MacNamara – Transfigured Continent, for indeterminate ensemble (2016)
Ceridwen McCooey – New Commission, for cello & percussion (2023)
[interval]
Xiaole Zhan – New Commission, for violin & percussion (2023)
Lewis Ingham – City Swallowed by the Sea, solo for quarter-tone glockenspiels and vibraphone (2022)
Oscar Tudge – New Commission, for percussion quartet (2023)
This project has been supported by the Wattle Fellowship, an environmental and leadership development program undertaken by Oscar Tudge at the University of Melbourne.
www.unimelb.edu.au/wattlefellowship
This event seeks to promote an awareness of our current environmental issues, creating a space for sharing information and inspiring meaningful discussion.
WHACKollective regularly works on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.