Aphids in association with Sphere * Yakumo Honjin
June 2nd 2010 06:41
new music network
Dedicated to the promotion and performance of new music in Australia.
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Yakumo Honjin
Aphids in association with Sphere (Japan)
A music installation for video, miniature percussion, violin and harp
Yakumo Honjin was created in and inspired by a 280 year old Samurai hotel near Lake Shinji in far west Japan. A meditation on the concept of ‘oku’ – or hidden – a theory which informs traditional Japanese architecture, garden design and music. Yakumo Honjin tours the east coast of Australia following performances in Matsue Castle in Japan. Aphids is supported by Arts Victoria.
ARTISTS: David Young composer, Rosemary Joy instrument artist, Peter Humble video artist, Yasutaka Hemmi (Japan) violin, Takayo Matsumura (Japan) harp, Eugene Ughetti & Matthias Schack-Arnott percussion, Adam Stewart woodwork
DATE Tuesday 29 June 2010
THREE PERFORMANCES 7pm; 7:40pm; 8:30pm, Duration: 30 mins
Performed to only 30 people at a time.
WHERE Elizabeth Bay House, 7 Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $20 / Conc and Under 30 $12
For information about this concert phone 0411 606 077
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL: BOOK ONLINE by phone (02) 8256 2222
BIOGRAPHIES:
David Young
David Young is a composer and has been the artistic director of the cross-artform company Aphids (Melbourne). He is now artist director of Chamber Made Opera. His music is performed in Australia, Europe, the US and Asia, in contexts ranging from concerts to music theatre and installation. His music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles and musicians including the Ives Ensemble (The Netherlands), Fritz Hauser (Switzerland), Æquatuor (Switzerland), Norio Sato (Japan), Tosiya Suzuki (Japan), Yasutaka Hemmi (Japan), Manufacture Ensemble (Japan), Champ d’Action (Belgium), Ensemble 2000 (Denmark), and Australia’s Elision, The Song Company, Libra Ensemble, Australian Youth Orchestra, Speak Percussion, Michael Kieran Harvey, Ensemble Offspring and Aphids. As a composer he is preoccupied with exploring the relationship between sound and image, employing intricate and often miniature formats in unconventional settings. The music has been variously described as ‘musical origami’, ‘accessible, yet satisfyingly abstract’ and ‘quietly determined to be itself … an aural equivalent of seeing a world in a grain of sand’.
Yasutaka Hemmi (Japan)
Violinist / artistic director Sphere, Matsue, Japan
Yasutaka was born in Shimane, Japan in 1971. He graduated from the specialist music course of Shimane University and completed his masters in 1999. He has studied with Asako Urushihara, Tatsuo Chinen, Fumiko Nishigami and others. For contemporary music, he has taken lessons with Arditti, Alberman and Mellinger. Yasutaka has invented his own techniques for contemporary music to play special pieces which would be impossible employing only traditional techniques. Yasutaka has worked closely with Aphids since 1998, as a performer and Japan-based producer. Aphids has collaborated with Sphere on many projects including Ricefields, Skin Quartet, Fight with the Violin and individual concerts and presentations of contemporary music. He has worked not only with composers such as Brian Ferneyhough, David Young, Juliana Hodkinson, Keiko Harada and so on, but with visual artists, sound designers, and dancers. Yastaka has been invited to many international festivals such as Melbourne, Brisbane Biennial, Belfort (France), Ars Musica (Belgium), Akiyoshidai (Japan) and given dozens of first performances. Since 2001, he has been a regular member of the Belgian contemporary music ensemble, Champ d'Action, and had many performances in Europe. And since his solo recital in Brussels in 2002, he has became one of the most sought after violinists in Belgium.
Takayo Matsumura (harp) (Japan)
Born in Osaka, Japan, and graduated from Soai University (Faculty of Music), MATSUMURA is now a free-lance harpist and her activities incorporate solo, chamber ensemble and orchestral performances. She is a member of the harp duo ‘Farfalle’, with sister Eri Matsumura, and has performed in a range of contexts including the Arles International Harp Festival and the NHK-FM Recital. In 2009 Farfalle released its first CD ‘Farfalle au bois dormant’. MATSUMURA has given numerous first performances, and as an arranger, she has expanded the repertoire of harp music.
Rosemary Joy (artist)
Rosemary Joy makes miniature sculptural percussion instruments for site specific works, usually for very small audiences. Rosemary´s work exploring sculpture in performance began with Aphids project Ricefields. Conceived by composer David Young as an investigation into sculptural musical notation, Ricefields was performed in Melbourne, France, Japan, Brisbane and Sydney (1998-1999) by Deborah Kayser, Natasha Anderson, Peter Humble and Yasutaka Hemmi. Rosemary was a founding board member for Rawcus theatre company and is currently a member of the City of Port Phillip Cultural Development Committee. In 2009, Rosemary received a Goethe Institut scholarship. She undertook an artist residency at Stiftung Kunstlerdorf Schöppingen in Germany in 2008.
Eugene Ughetti (percussionist)
Eugene Ughetti is a Melbourne based percussionist, composer and conductor. He has studied with significant artists from most continents and completed an Honors degree in Classical Percussion at the Victorian College of the Arts. His professional experience is diverse but his particular passion is for new music and hybrid-arts collaboration. Eugene has been a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra, Sydney Symphonia, Geminiani Orchestra, UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra and is a casual Percussionist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has been a percussionist at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan from 2000, and last returned by invitation in 2002. He has worked under conductors Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Pierre Boulez, James Levine, Stephan Asbury, Sergei Gergiev, Neemi Jarvi, Franck Ollu, Markus Stenz, Denis Cohen and Yuri Temirkanov. Eugene has toured throughout Europe, Asia and North America. He has appeared as a soloist with both the Melbourne Symphony and Victorian College of the Arts Orchestras. In 1998 he was an ABC Young Composer and ABC Young Artist.
Eugene has undertaken professional collaborations with choreographers, animators, dancers, installation artists, actors, artistic directors and has commissioned many new solo and ensemble works. This experience includes work in various premiere Arts Festivals, educational residencies and independent projects. His engagements with new music ensembles include Libra, Elision and Music Genome Project. Eugene will participated in the Lucerne Festival working under Pierre Boulez and performing with Ensemble Intercontemporain as a Lucerne Festival Academy member. Eugene is currently realizing a hybrid-arts solo project for the 2005 Big West Festival presented by Speak Percussion entitled Raising the Rattle. New solo percussion compositions by Chris Dench, Dal Babare, David Young and Anthony Pateras and the Oribotics installation by Matt Gardiner will culminate in this performance. Eugene is a founding member and artist director of Speak Percussion and is a sessional staff member at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and conducts their Percussion Ensemble.
Matthias Schack-Arnott (percussionist)
Graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School in 2006, Matthias Schack-Arnott has had experience playing in a host of orchestral, improvisational and new music ensembles. Matthias has worked with instrument builders, sculptors, dancers, composers and sound designers, and has performed with among others Speak Percussion, Glass Percussion Project, Aphids, Australian Youth Orchestra, Robert Vincs Trio, and is a casual percussionist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, Matthias took part in an international exchange in spending a year in Denmark studying with Professor Gert Mortensen and Gert Sorensen (Principal Percussion, Danish Radio Symhpony). Since 2007, Matthias has been engaged in a mentorship program with Speak Percussion, one of Australia's leading percussive arts groups. He is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Music Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Peter Humble (video artist)
Having begun making short films while studying a Diploma in Television & Sound Production in 1991 Peter has continued to work in all aspects of production and post production including music composition & sound design/foley for various screen projects. After 1991 he concentrated on music for a number of years. During that time he specialised in drums and percussion and developed a unique electro acoustic approach to the drum kit. From January 2002 to March 2003 he was full time percussionist/composer with Circus Oz touring to Brisbane, regional Queensland and Brasil. In 2008 his video work Lunch with Friends was selected to screen at the Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF) as well as the Platforma Video Festival in Athens where it was screened as part of an Australian show-case of new video works in December 2007. The work was also chosen by SUFF to appear on their 2008 highlights DVD. Also in 2008 Peter was sponsored for a solo exhibition at the Japan Foundation Gallery in Sydney. The 3 week installation featured a number of single & multi-screen installations based on a trip to Japan in the previous year. Peter has also collaborated with film artist Louise Curham. Their essay film Tenho Saudades from 2004 had a number of local screenings including the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival.
new music network
Dedicated to the promotion and performance of new music in Australia.
newmusicnetwork.com.au
Dedicated to the promotion and performance of new music in Australia.
newmusicnetwork.com.au presents:
Yakumo Honjin
Aphids in association with Sphere (Japan)
A music installation for video, miniature percussion, violin and harp
Yakumo Honjin was created in and inspired by a 280 year old Samurai hotel near Lake Shinji in far west Japan. A meditation on the concept of ‘oku’ – or hidden – a theory which informs traditional Japanese architecture, garden design and music. Yakumo Honjin tours the east coast of Australia following performances in Matsue Castle in Japan. Aphids is supported by Arts Victoria.
ARTISTS: David Young composer, Rosemary Joy instrument artist, Peter Humble video artist, Yasutaka Hemmi (Japan) violin, Takayo Matsumura (Japan) harp, Eugene Ughetti & Matthias Schack-Arnott percussion, Adam Stewart woodwork
THREE PERFORMANCES 7pm; 7:40pm; 8:30pm, Duration: 30 mins
Performed to only 30 people at a time.
WHERE Elizabeth Bay House, 7 Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $20 / Conc and Under 30 $12
For information about this concert phone 0411 606 077
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL: BOOK ONLINE by phone (02) 8256 2222
BIOGRAPHIES:
David Young
David Young is a composer and has been the artistic director of the cross-artform company Aphids (Melbourne). He is now artist director of Chamber Made Opera. His music is performed in Australia, Europe, the US and Asia, in contexts ranging from concerts to music theatre and installation. His music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles and musicians including the Ives Ensemble (The Netherlands), Fritz Hauser (Switzerland), Æquatuor (Switzerland), Norio Sato (Japan), Tosiya Suzuki (Japan), Yasutaka Hemmi (Japan), Manufacture Ensemble (Japan), Champ d’Action (Belgium), Ensemble 2000 (Denmark), and Australia’s Elision, The Song Company, Libra Ensemble, Australian Youth Orchestra, Speak Percussion, Michael Kieran Harvey, Ensemble Offspring and Aphids. As a composer he is preoccupied with exploring the relationship between sound and image, employing intricate and often miniature formats in unconventional settings. The music has been variously described as ‘musical origami’, ‘accessible, yet satisfyingly abstract’ and ‘quietly determined to be itself … an aural equivalent of seeing a world in a grain of sand’.
Yasutaka Hemmi (Japan)
Violinist / artistic director Sphere, Matsue, Japan
Yasutaka was born in Shimane, Japan in 1971. He graduated from the specialist music course of Shimane University and completed his masters in 1999. He has studied with Asako Urushihara, Tatsuo Chinen, Fumiko Nishigami and others. For contemporary music, he has taken lessons with Arditti, Alberman and Mellinger. Yasutaka has invented his own techniques for contemporary music to play special pieces which would be impossible employing only traditional techniques. Yasutaka has worked closely with Aphids since 1998, as a performer and Japan-based producer. Aphids has collaborated with Sphere on many projects including Ricefields, Skin Quartet, Fight with the Violin and individual concerts and presentations of contemporary music. He has worked not only with composers such as Brian Ferneyhough, David Young, Juliana Hodkinson, Keiko Harada and so on, but with visual artists, sound designers, and dancers. Yastaka has been invited to many international festivals such as Melbourne, Brisbane Biennial, Belfort (France), Ars Musica (Belgium), Akiyoshidai (Japan) and given dozens of first performances. Since 2001, he has been a regular member of the Belgian contemporary music ensemble, Champ d'Action, and had many performances in Europe. And since his solo recital in Brussels in 2002, he has became one of the most sought after violinists in Belgium.
Takayo Matsumura (harp) (Japan)
Born in Osaka, Japan, and graduated from Soai University (Faculty of Music), MATSUMURA is now a free-lance harpist and her activities incorporate solo, chamber ensemble and orchestral performances. She is a member of the harp duo ‘Farfalle’, with sister Eri Matsumura, and has performed in a range of contexts including the Arles International Harp Festival and the NHK-FM Recital. In 2009 Farfalle released its first CD ‘Farfalle au bois dormant’. MATSUMURA has given numerous first performances, and as an arranger, she has expanded the repertoire of harp music.
Rosemary Joy (artist)
Rosemary Joy makes miniature sculptural percussion instruments for site specific works, usually for very small audiences. Rosemary´s work exploring sculpture in performance began with Aphids project Ricefields. Conceived by composer David Young as an investigation into sculptural musical notation, Ricefields was performed in Melbourne, France, Japan, Brisbane and Sydney (1998-1999) by Deborah Kayser, Natasha Anderson, Peter Humble and Yasutaka Hemmi. Rosemary was a founding board member for Rawcus theatre company and is currently a member of the City of Port Phillip Cultural Development Committee. In 2009, Rosemary received a Goethe Institut scholarship. She undertook an artist residency at Stiftung Kunstlerdorf Schöppingen in Germany in 2008.
Eugene Ughetti (percussionist)
Eugene Ughetti is a Melbourne based percussionist, composer and conductor. He has studied with significant artists from most continents and completed an Honors degree in Classical Percussion at the Victorian College of the Arts. His professional experience is diverse but his particular passion is for new music and hybrid-arts collaboration. Eugene has been a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra, Sydney Symphonia, Geminiani Orchestra, UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra and is a casual Percussionist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has been a percussionist at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan from 2000, and last returned by invitation in 2002. He has worked under conductors Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Pierre Boulez, James Levine, Stephan Asbury, Sergei Gergiev, Neemi Jarvi, Franck Ollu, Markus Stenz, Denis Cohen and Yuri Temirkanov. Eugene has toured throughout Europe, Asia and North America. He has appeared as a soloist with both the Melbourne Symphony and Victorian College of the Arts Orchestras. In 1998 he was an ABC Young Composer and ABC Young Artist.
Eugene has undertaken professional collaborations with choreographers, animators, dancers, installation artists, actors, artistic directors and has commissioned many new solo and ensemble works. This experience includes work in various premiere Arts Festivals, educational residencies and independent projects. His engagements with new music ensembles include Libra, Elision and Music Genome Project. Eugene will participated in the Lucerne Festival working under Pierre Boulez and performing with Ensemble Intercontemporain as a Lucerne Festival Academy member. Eugene is currently realizing a hybrid-arts solo project for the 2005 Big West Festival presented by Speak Percussion entitled Raising the Rattle. New solo percussion compositions by Chris Dench, Dal Babare, David Young and Anthony Pateras and the Oribotics installation by Matt Gardiner will culminate in this performance. Eugene is a founding member and artist director of Speak Percussion and is a sessional staff member at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and conducts their Percussion Ensemble.
Matthias Schack-Arnott (percussionist)
Graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School in 2006, Matthias Schack-Arnott has had experience playing in a host of orchestral, improvisational and new music ensembles. Matthias has worked with instrument builders, sculptors, dancers, composers and sound designers, and has performed with among others Speak Percussion, Glass Percussion Project, Aphids, Australian Youth Orchestra, Robert Vincs Trio, and is a casual percussionist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, Matthias took part in an international exchange in spending a year in Denmark studying with Professor Gert Mortensen and Gert Sorensen (Principal Percussion, Danish Radio Symhpony). Since 2007, Matthias has been engaged in a mentorship program with Speak Percussion, one of Australia's leading percussive arts groups. He is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Music Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Peter Humble (video artist)
Having begun making short films while studying a Diploma in Television & Sound Production in 1991 Peter has continued to work in all aspects of production and post production including music composition & sound design/foley for various screen projects. After 1991 he concentrated on music for a number of years. During that time he specialised in drums and percussion and developed a unique electro acoustic approach to the drum kit. From January 2002 to March 2003 he was full time percussionist/composer with Circus Oz touring to Brisbane, regional Queensland and Brasil. In 2008 his video work Lunch with Friends was selected to screen at the Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF) as well as the Platforma Video Festival in Athens where it was screened as part of an Australian show-case of new video works in December 2007. The work was also chosen by SUFF to appear on their 2008 highlights DVD. Also in 2008 Peter was sponsored for a solo exhibition at the Japan Foundation Gallery in Sydney. The 3 week installation featured a number of single & multi-screen installations based on a trip to Japan in the previous year. Peter has also collaborated with film artist Louise Curham. Their essay film Tenho Saudades from 2004 had a number of local screenings including the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival.
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