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transmisi
10, 11 and 12 September 1999
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It's a truism of art and music history that the creativity of each
generation has its roots in misunderstanding that of the previous one. On
the other hand, collaborations across artforms and across cultural geography
are usually characterised by overpolite mutual accommodation, each
participant tiptoeing around in an attempt to understand and show respect
for the other, resulting in dilution and compromise of both. Heri Dono and
I are committed to misunderstanding one another.
transmisi is a Dutch word which became respelled in its
colonial Indonesian
environment. In our project it stands for the transmission of information,
ideas, traditions (between cultures, but also within them); also the
adaptations, distortions, misinterpretations which accompany it--imagined
not as obstacles but as the work itself. Wayang kulit and music for
electro-acoustic ensemble could only be the strangest of bedfellows, but
their interweavings are further ramified by video, by oblique
approaches to the sound and structure of gamelan, by a
sound-performance/image installation which itself misappropriates an empty
power station, for its own energy-generating purposes.
--Richard BARRETT
Heri DONO visual artist,
Richard BARRETT composer, live electronics,
Anthony BURR clarinets,
Carl ROSMAN clarinets,
Timothy O'DWYER saxophones,
Peter NEVILLE percussion,
Daryl BUCKLEY electric guitar,
Michael HEWES live electronics
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8:00pm, 10, 11 and 12 September 1999
The Boiler Room, Tennyson Powerhouse
Softstone Street, off Tennyson Memorial drive, Tennyson
Performances may be postponed by adverse weather
Admittance by invitation or membership of the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial
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transmisi
is presented as part of the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial, with the assistance of
State of Queensland through Arts Queensland
ELISION, Australia's national new music ensemble, gratefully
acknowledges the assistance of the Commonwealth of Australia through the Australia Council,
it arts funding and advisory body, and the The University of Queensland through the
Office of the Vice Chancellor, Professor John HAY
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