If you are interested in new music, audio-visual media or the visual arts, then the Percy Grainger Museum's Melbourne Festival programme for Sunday 18th October may be for you!I assume no responsibility for any mistakes/typos, etc. Dave.Most events are free. Do not hesitate to contact me by phone (+613 9344 5270), fax (+613 9349 1707) or email (grainger@unimelb.edu.au) if you have any further queries or questions about our programme.
We hope to see you there!
Kind regards Alessandro Servadei ASSISTANT CURATOR Grainger Museum
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ELECTRIC-EYE
The 'Electric-Eye Tone-Tool' (1960), the last electronic instrument built by the famous Australian composer Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961), achieved his lifelong dream of a beatless, gliding music and provided the ultimate connection between sound and visual art.Proudly presented in association with the 1998 Melbourne Festival, Electric-Eye is the Grainger Museum's celebration of this remarkable creative achievement, and highlights sixty years of sonic and visual experiments since the Museum's inception in 1938 at The University of Melbourne.
Martin Wesley-Smith, one of Australia's foremost electro-acoustic composers and audio-visual artists, presents the Melbourne premiere of five multi-media compositions (Martin Wesley-Smith, Carl Vine and Julian Knowles) drawing the photographic image and recorded sound into dynamic counterpoint.
From the roof of the Museum, Grainger's 'Free Music' and 'Beatless Music' for multiple theremins (composed in 1937 and yet an Australian premiere) will be presented as part of Beaming the Theremin, a sound and light event curated by Ros Bandt. New Australian electro-acoustic composition will surround the museum, illuminated by light artist Hugh McSpedden.
Leading contemporary artists, Carolyn Eskdale and Louise Weaver make the first ever incursions into the Museum's galleries to interpret Grainger's extraordinary collection in their installations as part of eye-dream, curated by Mellissa Lovett.
Thus, in the spirit of Percy Grainger, his museum will come alive with visual sound and light artists, and a theremin virtuoso, together weaving a delightful web of light and sound.
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'Electric-Eye' Programme
Sunday 18 October 1998
** Art Installations ** 'eye-dream'
Artists: Carolyn Eskdale and Louise Weaver Curator: Mellissa Lovett Grainger Museum 11am - 11pm (Exhibition closes 11 December 1998)** Live Theremin Demonstrations ** Theremin meets Grainger Presenter: Jon Drummond Grainger Museum 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm
** Interview ** Martin Wesley-Smith in Conversation with Andrew McLennan (ABC Classic FM's 'The Listening Room') Melba Hall / Tallis Wing 5 pm
** Martin Wesley-Smith in Concert ** Wattamolla Red (Melbourne Premiere) Multimedia works by Martin Wesley-Smith, Carl Vine and Julian Knowles, with images and photography by George Gittoes, Belinda Webster, Julia Featherstone, Melissa Lovric and Jenny Lovric and audio-visual programming by Martin Wesley-Smith, Jon Drummond and Belinda Webster. Melba Hall 7.30 pm
** Sound and Light Show ** 'Beaming the Theremin' (World Premiere) New electro-acoustic works with performances on the hour of Grainger's 'Free Music' and 'Beatless Music' for multiple theremins. Curator: Ros Bandt Lighting: Hugh McSpedden Theremin: Jon Drummond Sound Engineer: David Collins Surrounding the Grainger Museum 9 pm
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