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SOUNDS UNHEARD 2016

Sounds Unheard is a free music education program for exceptional secondary school music students. Hosted by the internationally acclaimed Speak Percussion, this program offers unique opportunities for young musicians and composers from all areas of music making to expand their knowledge and creativity. Sounds Unheard will run throughout each year from 2015-2017, offering a range of music education opportunities that will develop students’ talents and inspire through innovative approaches to music making. Each Sounds Unheard member selects the activities most suited to their interests, creating personalised programs that will take participants beyond the classroom and give them access to some of the most exciting ideas, works and musicians in modern music. Sounds Unheard 2016 includes:

• The Sounds Unheard Artist Program, an opportunity for young musicians to take part in a professional performance, rehearse with Speak Percussion, and give the world premiere of a new work by Speak Percussion’s Artist Director Eugene Ughetti.

• The Sounds Unheard School Holiday Intensive (4-8 July 2016), a tailor-made program designed to extend students’ understanding of music and explore aspects of music making beyond the Victorian curriculum.

• Sounds Unheard Internships, offering young musicians opportunities to participate in the creative development of new Speak projects as Sounds Unheard Artist Interns or develop their interviewing skills as Sounds Unheard Reporters.

• Backstage Passes, taking Sounds Unheard Members behind the scenes at Speak

Percussion rehearsals and performances. Gain insight into the work of professional musicians and visit some of Victoria’s premier performance venues.

• Online Masterclasses tailored to Sounds Unheard Members on diverse topics,

presented by the Sounds Unheard Experts – a team of leading musicians from around the world.

• The Sounds Unheard blog, where you can find out more about the Sounds

Unheard Members and Experts, upcoming activities, and new ideas in music-making. Find something new and surprising today at www.soundsunheard.com

• Certificates of participation from Speak Percussion, recognising Members' involvement in each year of Sounds Unheard.

To apply, visit www.soundsunheard.com/join or email [email protected]

for more information.


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SOUNDS UNHEARD 2016 PROGRAM ARTIST PROGRAM: BELL CURVE November 29 – December 3 2016 Arts House, North Melbourne Sounds Unheard Members are invited to take part in the world premiere of Bell Curve, an immersive and intimate performance work for twelve independent musicians playing the Federation Handbells. Through an exploration of complex networked temporal relationships, a massed sound event unfolds across the performance space, a world revealed between the attacks and beating patterns of tuned bell resonance. Bell Curve will premiere at the Arts House Summertime Festival, a free festival celebrating art and community. The ensemble will give three performances of this new work by Eugene Ughetti, showcasing the Federation Handbells and new technology developed by sound artist Nick Roux specifically for this unique event. This is a rare opportunity for students to experience professional music-making, present a public performance in one of Melbourne’s premier performance venues, and give the world premiere of a new piece of music. Speak Percussion highly recommends that interested participants also attend the Sounds Unheard School Holiday Intensive in July, which will coach students on the Bell Curve performance and a range of other music education extension activities. Participants who wish to apply for this opportunity must be available for rehearsals and performances at Arts House on the following key dates: 29 November 2016 4:30-6:30pm Rehearsal 1 30 November 2016 4:30-6:30pm Rehearsal 2 1 December 2016 4:30-6:30pm Rehearsal 3 2 December 2016 4:30-6:30pm Rehearsal 4 3 December 2016 2:00-3:00pm Dress Rehearsal

4:30pm Performance 1 5:45pm Performance 2 7:15pm Performance 3

Please note that Speak Percussion will provide all instruments required, and catering for all Bell Curve performers on Saturday December 3. Applications for the Artist Program must be received by October 31, 2016. *Billeted accommodation, where required, should be arranged by the participants. Please contact Speak Percussion if assistance is required.


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SCHOOL HOLIDAY INTENSIVE: BELL CURVE 10am – 4pm, July 4-8 2016 Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre Join Speak Percussion in the July school holidays to take part in the creative development and first showing of a new work by Speak’s Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti. Bell Curve is an architectural intervention using hundreds of tuned hand bells set in motion by roaming performers and pre-recorded sound. New wireless technology is being developed by Nick Roux to enable a mass of performers, using networked speakers and personalised in-ear-monitors to move and perform precisely across vast spaces in one complex spatial composition. This intensive will take Sounds Unheard members through the full process of developing a new work for public presentation – rehearsal, refinement and performance. Sessions will also include discussions and activities encompassing chamber music practice, improvisation, composition, site-specific performance, extended techniques, and classes focused on topics requested by the participants. The 2016 School Holiday Intensive is designed for instrumentalists of any kind, composers, pop musicians and electronic musicians. Applications for the School Holiday Intensive must be received by June 17, 2016.


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SOUNDS UNHEARD INTERNSHIPS Sounds Unheard Internships offer opportunities for Members to work with Speak Percussion and their colleagues in one-on-one or small group settings. In 2016 Sounds Unheard will include Artist Intern positions, focused on the development of new Speak Percussion works, and two Sounds Unheard Reporter positions, offering interview training and the chance to be broadcast on Melbourne radio. SOUNDS UNHEARD ARTIST INTERNSHIPS Anicca – March 30, June 29 and September 21 2016 Assembly Operation – June 7 & 9 2016 Speak Percussion Studio, Thornbury The 2016 Sounds Unheard Artist Interns will have the opportunity to work closely with Speak Percussion as they develop two new works – Anicca for rotating percussion set up, and Assembly Operation for percussionists exploring mass-produced toys as instruments. The Artist Internships are perfect for Sounds Unheard Members interested in performance, composition, instrument design and the creative process. SOUNDS UNHEARD REPORTERS September 2016 PBS 106.7 FM, Collingwood The 2016 Sounds Unheard Reporters will be featured in a radio broadcast and an Online Masterclass, interviewing one of the 2016 Sounds Unheard Experts. Over four weeks in August/September, the reporters will meet once a week for interview coaching and radio broadcast training with Owen McKern, Program Manager at PBS 106.7FM, in preparation for the recording. The final interview will be broadcast on PBS’ The Sound Barrier and shared on the Sounds Unheard website. The Sounds Unheard Reporter Internships are exceptional opportunities for Members to learn more about contemporary music practice, gain insight into the broadcasting industry, develop public speaking skills, and connect with well-established artists and mentors in Melbourne’s musical community.


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BACKSTAGE PASSES Come backstage with Speak Percussion as they prepare major performances throughout the year. Meet the artists, attend rehearsals, study scores, experience new compositions in the presence of the composer, discover new instruments and learn about how professional musicians put concerts together. ASSEMBLY OPERATION: CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT June 17 2016, 4-6pm Speak Percussion Studio, Thornbury Join Speak Percussion as they begin the initial developments of a dark and humorous performance work mixing percussion, theatrical staging and animation. Set in alternate realities shaped by games and role play, this work will combine intriguing hand-made Chinese animation, stylised children’s toys and a minimalistic set design to conjure a surgery, a factory floor, or the pressures of adult life. Treating the toys polyphonically, en masse, or employing specialized percussion and puppetry techniques, Assembly Operation will push the dexterity and skill of Speak’s percussionists to their limits. ANICCA: OPEN REHEARSAL November 1 2016, 4:30-6:30pm Arts House, North Melbourne Anicca is a new work exploring cycles and orbits through sound, conceived by Speak Percussion’s Artistic Associate Matthias Schack-Arnott. Featuring a custom-built circular, spinning percussion set-up, bell-like resonances, and a spatialised sound-design which will orbit sounds around the audience, this dynamic and virtuosic performance will showcase a unique musical vocabulary unlike anything you’ve heard before. Sounds Unheard Members interested in attending the rehearsals for Anicca should also consider the Sounds Unheard Artist Internship, which will see them work closely with Matthias on the Creative Development of this work. FLUOROPHONE: OPEN REHEARSAL November 21 & 22 2016, 4:30-6:30pm The Substation, Newport Fluorophone creates a kaleidoscopic sound world in which the central instruments radiate, flicker, glow and burn. Analogue and digital fluorescent lights, the naked flame, strobe lights and custom-built LED discs are combined with percussion to create a program in which the music and lighting design are one and the same. Fluorophone moves between noise, theatrical music and virtuosic instrumentalism, in a synesthetic display of light and sound. Join Speak Percussion as they rehearse for the Australian premiere of this project, featuring specially commissioned works by a prominent team of leading composers from Australia, Denmark and the UK.


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ONLINE MASTERCLASSES Access international artists, professional experts and a wealth of musical knowledge on diverse topics tailored to you. These online sessions are designed to be watched from home, school or practice room. Sounds Unheard Members are invited to submit requests for guest presenters and topics you’d like to see covered. Online Masterclass topics include:

• Composition and performance techniques • VCE performance • Creative and alternative approaches to music making • Topics requested by Sounds Unheard Members

The 2016 Sounds Unheard Experts include:

• Speak Percussion Artists Eugene Ughetti and Matthias Schack-Arnott • Liza Lim (Professor of Composition, University of Huddersfield) • Gail Priest (sound artist, writer and curator) • Peter Knight (Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra) • Tamara Saulwick (Melbourne-based performance-maker, actor and director) • Johannes Kreidler (Berlin-based composer, author and conceptualist)

SOUNDS UNHEARD BLOG The Interactive Blog is the communication hub of the Sounds Unheard community – a place where you can learn about the Sounds Unheard Experts and Members, find out about upcoming activities, and be introduced to new ideas, sounds and projects. You’re sure to find something new and surprising. Visit www.soundsunheard.com for updates throughout the year.


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ABOUT SPEAK PERCUSSION

Speak Percussion’s ambitious and uncompromising projects have defined the sound of 21stcentury Australian percussion music. Internationally recognised as a leader in the fields of experimental, interdisciplinary and contemporary classical music, Speak Percussion creates ambitious self-developed projects, commissions new works from remarkable contemporary composers and interprets the masterworks of the genre. Speak Percussion’s debut performance was in 2000, performing as part of Musica Viva’s Menage Series to sold-out crowds and receiving glowing praise from critics. “…sent the audience once again into a frenzy. It was power playing at its best” (The Age, 2000). From the beginning, Speak Percussion’s primary

focus has been to develop close relationships with living composers from Australia and abroad. This has led to Speak to working with many of the world’s leading exponents of new music, including Steve Reich (USA), Liza Lim (AUS), Mark Applebaum (USA), Richard Barrett (UK), Jon Rose (AUS), Bent Sørensen (DK), Fritz Hauser (CH), Michael Pisaro (USA) and Robin Fox (AUS). Key to Speak Percussion’s success has been the development of long-term artistic relationships spanning multiple works. With Fritz Hauser (Switzerland), Speak Percussion has developed six major projects from 2004-2012, including a chamber opera, installation, notated works and spatial improvisations in festival contexts in Australia and Switzerland. From 2004-2011 Speak commissioned works from Anthony Pateras ranging from solo through to twelvetet, released multiple recordings, performed on the feature length film Errors of the Human Body and performed his work in four continents. With Thomas Meadowcroft and James Rushford, Speak has commissioned and recorded multiple works and presented them in prestigious contexts such as MaerzMusik (Berlin Festspiele), Adelaide Festival and the Taiwan International Percussion Convention. Early on, Speak Percussion began engaging with artists from diverse disciplines in cross artform collaborations. Notable collaborators include architects Boa Baumann (Schallmachine 06,Schallmachine Maximus, Speak & Unspoken) and Büro Architects (Chrysalis), chef Glenn Flood (Pasta Percussion), new media artist Robin Fox (TRANSDUCER) and the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Department (The Black of the Star). From 2003-2012 collaborations with Aphids Inc. occurred with David Young, Rosemary Joy and Willoh S. Weiland. Such projects included Schallmaschine Kleine (Melbourne International Arts Festival 2006), Yakumo Honjin(Japan/Australia), Exile, System Building (China, The Netherlands, Sydney, Melbourne, Germany) and The Box. International touring began in 2005 with a twelve-city tour of Europe performing exclusively Australian music. Speak now regularly tours to many of the world’s leading festivals and venues including Maerzmusik 2013 (Germany), SONICA 2015 (UK), Tage für Neue Musik 2015 (Switzerland), Café OTO (UK), TIPC 2014 (Taiwan), Salihara 2014 (Indonesia), CONNECT 2014 (Sweden), ARENA 2014 (Latvia), GAIDA 2014 (Lithuania) and Batteries IV 2013 (Switzerland).


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In 2011 Speak Percussion established a prestigious national Emerging Artists Program focussing on new chamber music and experimental music practice. Each year a group of Australia’s brightest music talents now come together to develop new work alongside Speak Percussion and an international guest artist. Guest artists have included Mark Applebaum (Stanford University, USA), Richard Barrett (Sonology/UK), Kroumata (Sweden), Eighth Blackbird (USA) and Thomas Meadowcroft (GER/AUS). In 2015 Speak Percussion launched Sounds Unheard, a free music education program for secondary school music students. It offers a range of music education opportunities, from performance through to online content, that develops students’ skills and inspires through innovative approaches to music making. Speak Percussion has twice been awarded an AMC/APRA Art Music Award, including the 2014 State Award for Excellence by an Organisation, the 2012 Melbourne Fringe Festival Best Music Award for it’s large-scale robotics project Automation and a 2014 Green Room Award for Fluvial. EUGENE UGHETTI Eugene Ughetti is a percussionist, composer, conductor and artistic director of Speak Percussion. Eugene is recognized worldwide for his daring and innovative performance projects and has toured all over the globe with everything from Orchestras to as a soloist. Eugene has worked with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria as well as most of Australia’s leading new music ensembles. He has also worked with some of the world’s finest composers including Steve Reich, Sofia Gubaidulina and Pierre Boulez and with conductors Valery Gergiev, James Levine and Charles Dutoit. He has composed music for The Australian Ballet, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, ABC and Bionic Ear Institute, with works presented and broadcast internationally. He has conducted in major international music Festivals as well as professional Australian Symphony Orchestras. His is the winner of multiple national awards and fellowships including the inaugural Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, MCA/Freedman Fellowship for Classical Music (2011) and the OZCO Creative Fellowship – early career as well as being twice a finalist for the Melbourne Prize for Music.

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HOW TO JOIN

To join Sounds Unheard, please visit www.soundsunheard.com/join and fill out the online application form. If you have any questions or require assistance, please contact Kaylie Melville, Sounds Unheard Coordinator, at [email protected]. To become a Member, you must be an Australian resident enrolled in Secondary School in 2016. Applications will be welcomed throughout 2016. Applications for the School Holiday Intensive must be received by June 17, 2016, and the Artist Internship by October 31, 2016. Offers and notification of places will be made via email within two weeks of the receipt of your email. 2016 KEY DATES February 1 Sounds Unheard Applications open March 30 Anicca Artist Internship (Session 1) June 7 & 9 Assembly Operation Artist Internship June 17 Assembly Operation Backstage Pass June 17 Applications close for Sounds Unheard School Holiday Intensive June 29 Anicca Artist Internship (Session 2) July 4-8 Sounds Unheard School Holiday Intensive September Sounds Unheard Reporter Internships September 21 Anicca Artist Internship (Session 2) October 31 Applications close for Artist Program: Bell Curve November 1 Anicca Backstage Pass November 21-22 Fluorophone Backstage Pass Nov 29 – Dec 3 Artist Program: Bell Curve (see page 3 for full schedule) Throughout 2016 Online Masterclasses published at www.soundsunheard.com Please note that all activities are subject to change.

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