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Melbourne Festival. 10-26 Oct 2014

Australia MusicClassical Music

These Compulsive Behaviours

Works by James Hullick for Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra

WORLD PREMIERE

PRESENTED BY JOLT ARTS AND MELBOURNE FESTIVAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CLICK CLACK PROJECT, FOOTSCRAY COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

COMPOSED BY JAMES HULLICK

As the audience begin to take their seats, a man stands onstage, silently composing music notation.

Within the hour, he’s joined onstage by an orchestra – the musicians seize their freshly minted sheet music and begin to play, even as the composer works furiously to complete the piece. Here the gathering orchestra heralds a key feature of this project: the celebration of sonic communities.

Thus begins the first concert of a remarkable music event conceived by maverick Australian composer James Hullick (Bruchlandung). A turbulent succession of ten experimental chamber orchestra works, These Compulsive Behaviours is a series of fractured soundscapes crafted as a gift of love for Hullick’s partner, Charlotte Bolcskey.

In articulating this gift of love Hullick has included a range of sonic creators in developing some of the works: Re:Evolution has been composed with the Amplified Elephants — musicians with an intellectual disability; Wrought Glacial — created in partnership with Kimberley Elder and singer Pansy Nulgit; and The Ballad of the Ever-Young Miss Rose — developed with car-jacking teens from the Noise Scavengers.

Playing with form and tone, Hullick reframes unorthodox noise art as romantic devotion, weaving cut-up electronica with snippets of text, slow-melting glacial blocks of sound and the play of colour in darkness.

Artists include BOLT Ensemble, Arcko Symphonic Ensemble, Amplified Elephants, Noise Scavengers, Pansy Nilgut, Michael Kieran Harvey, Richard Allen, Jonathan Duckworth

PART 1 REPERTOIRE

giveth and taketh away for BOLT orchestra
Sky-Flung Herds Arcko and BOLT large orchestra
The Ballad of the Ever-Young Miss Rose Michael Harvey (piano), Noise Scavengers and Arcko
Wrought Glacial Pansy Nulgit and Arcko/BOLT large orchestras

PART 2 REPERTOIRE

What it’s Not No. 9 Arcko and BOLT large orchestra
If I Could Sing BOLT and )-(u||!c|< (voice and piano)

PART 3 REPERTOIRE

Schizoid No. 1 BOLT orchestra and sound machines
Uno Series BOLT orchestra, sound machines and electronic sound
Threshold: The Hall BOLT orchestra and electronic sound

PART 4 REPERTOIRE

RE:EVOLUTION Amplified Elephants, BOLT, CiART's Resonance Table

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. The Click Clack Project is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria. 

Image: James Hullick

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PART 1 IWAKI AUDITORIUM
Wed 15 Oct at 7pm
Doors open 6pm 
2 hrs with interval

PART 2 IWAKI AUDITORIUM 
Wed 15 Oct at 9.30pm 
1 hr 15 mins with interval

PART 3 FOOTSCRAY COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE 
Thu 23 Oct at 7.30pm 
1 hr 40 mins with interval

PART 4 FOOTSCRAY COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE 
Fri 24 Oct at 7.30pm 
1hr, no interval

$25 per session
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