Interrogating the Instrument

Presented by Youth Music Australia

An intensive two-week period of lectures, recitals, workshops and rehearsals. Radical instrumental techniques and means of sound production, recent developments in microtonality, timbre, and rhythym will all be explored as integral aesthetic aspects of contemporary composition and performance.

With this intention, four composers will be heavily involved with the ELISION musicians in presenting this course. They are Richard BARRETT, Denis COHEN, Liza LIM and David YOUNG. Technique will be viewed as consequent to and emergent from music and the choreographic relationship between composer and performer will be investigated. The use of live electronics as a complement to instrumental technique will also be examined.

Daryl BUCKLEY artistic director, Paula RAE flutes, Carl ROSMAN clarinets, Peter NEVILLE percussion, Susan PIEROTTI violin, Rosanne HUNT violoncello, Timothy O'DWYER saxophones, Michael HEWES live electronics, Richard BARRETT composer/live electronics, David YOUNG composer, Liza LIM composer, Denis COHEN conductor/composer

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