Perth Voice Interactive

DISCORDANT presumes there’s a concordant, but it’s really a matter of what the ear is used to, Tura New Music artistic director Toss Mahoney says.

And that’s down to cultural conditioning: “Because it’s what we have been hammered with for so long…we think it’s wrong, but it’s impossible to be wrong with art.”

This year marks Tura’s twelfth Totally Huge New Music Festival.

Featuring more than 20 concerts with more than 50 music and sound artists from Australia and around the world, it will be awash with improvised electroacoustic and digital sounds, audio and audiovisual manipulation, installations, exhibitions and a film screening.

Toy eerily

Acclaimed UK-based Aussie Zubin Kanga will perform two new works,  by Australian composers: “[Which] toy eerily with the concept of ‘solo’ piano recital,” Mr Mahoney says.

Renowned new music interpreter, German cellist Friedrich Gauwerky is also going solo, and Melbourne composer, vocalist and sound artist Alice Hui-Sheng Change will perform new works in collaboration with singers from the WA Academy of Performing Arts.

The Totally Huge New Music Festival kicks off May 15 and finishes May 24. Check out Tura New Music’s webpage for the full program and venues.

by JENNY D’ANGER