2022 Program Report | Tura New Music

2022 PROGRAM REPORT Tura New Music

Warnarral Ngoorrngoorrool | Photo by Edify Media

Tura acknowledges the Traditional Owners of this Country. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and we say thank you. We have the privilege and pleasure of working with many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and language groups and value the opportunity to learn from and with them.

Tura was founded in 1987 in Boorloo/Perth. We acknowledge that this is the unceded land of the Whadjuk Noongar people and that their enduring connection to this place is of great benefit to us all. With solidarity and friendship, Tura says thanks to Whadjuk Elders and to the Boodjar that speaks all languages.

In 2022 over 7000 people engaged with Tura’s live programs. Our online and broadcast programs reached over 150,000.

There were 4 major regional and remote community engagement programs in the Kimberley and Pilbara, which included 153 school workshops and over 600 participants, 90% being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.

We commissioned 15 new works. We produced 29 performances and presented 51 live works, of which 34 were new Australian works.

Over the year Tura engaged 65 principal creatives of which 16 were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.

Tura partnered with 42 organisations across the year, maintaining relationships with communities around regional and remote Australia while creating new connections nationally and internationally.

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Tura creates cultural experiences that connect us all in meaningful and surprising ways. We celebrate First Nations people and culture by working with and for Indigenous artists and communities within intercultural learning and collaboration frameworks. We facilitate opportunities and collaborations for artists and composers across the national landscape to produce resonant and impactful works.

Through the art of sound – in its many forms and crossovers within a universe of old and new practice – we explore Australian identity and push the boundaries of expression.

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CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS It has been a great privilege to watch the growth and development of Tura since its inception and for the past 15 years having a direct experience through board membership and being Chair for much of this time. Arts organisations with the ability, resolve and flexibility to adapt and take artistic risk alongside authentic community engagement are rare. In following this course, Tura has enabled many talented and committed artists to present their work to an appreciative public. That Tura has been doing that for almost 35 years is an incredible accomplishment of national significance.

We were fortunate in WA during the pandemic years to be able to produce a significant program, but we did endure a dent in our momentum, especially around our national and international ambitions.

However, as this report shows, 2022 was still a year full of wonderful artistic and community programs. The results of this work will roll out for many years to come.

It’s Tura’s adaptability, resilience and authenticity which has enabled its long-term success and achievements.

I congratulate everyone that made 2022 the success it has been and on behalf of my fellow Board members thank you all for your generosity, commitment, and collaborative spirit.

Simon Dawkins

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CEO As we emerged from Covid isolations and restrictions 2022 was, for Tura, a celebration of the value of longevity. With projects like Warnarral Ngoorrngoorrool, now in its sixth year since it began in Warmun, flowing into The Journey Down tour and the development of a major new intercultural work; the ongoing Sound FX community engagement program in the Fitzroy Valley; the fourth year of the Kulininpalaju field-recording program in the East Pilbara and the second iteration over four years of the Summers Night female and non-binary composer mentoring program, amongst a growing list of large scale ongoing projects - the value of that longevity is apparent.

Indeed, all these programs have an even longer provenance considering the preceding years of community and artist consultation and planning. They really have come about from 20 years (sometimes more) of relationship building. Critically they all have at their core the process of collaboration, cultural exchange and two-way learning.

So in celebrating our longevity and what it has enabled, we thank everyone that has made that possible – our artists, our community partners, our funders, sponsors and donors along with all the many people that have been part of the Tura Team and Tura Board.

As we enter our 35th year of existence we look forward to expanding opportunities of engagement. I trust you will be inspired by the work of so many in the pages that follow and join us in our future journeys.

Tos Mahoney

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PROJECTS Warnarral Ngoorrngoorrool 23 September–10 October | Kununurra

Warnarral Ngoorrngoorrool (Gija for old car) is a powerful cultural object full of sound, story, intercultural collaboration and reconciliation.

In 2017 an old car wreck was converted into a sonic sculpture and instrument by composer and sound artist Jon Rose and was subsequently painted by Gija artists depicting stories of Country and cars. In 2020 the WA Museum acquired Warnarral Ngoorrngoorrool, and in 2023 Tura will present The Journey Down, an epic tour and performance of Warnarral Ngoorrngoorrool from its home in Kununurra to its new home at the WA Museum Boola Bardip in Perth, where it will be experienced by visitors from all over the world.

In 2022, a creative team of indigenous performers and cultural advisors, as well as leading non-indigenous musicians, animators and key creatives travelled to Kununurra for a two week development ahead of The Journey Down tour in 2023. The development weaved together dance, music, storytelling and projection, centred around Warnarral Ngoorngoorrool and our collective experiences of cars, wrecks and how they connect us.

2022 Creative Team Madeline Purdie | Gija Cultural Advisor, Artist and Storyteller Chris Griffiths | Miriwoong Cultural Advisor and Performer Andrew (Pelican) Daylight | Gija Performer Dion Jamin | Miriwoong Performer Eddie Nulgit | Gija Performer Tos Mahoney | Creative Producer Victoria Hunt | Dramaturge Vanessa Tomlinson | Composer/performer Tristen Parr | Composer/performer Aviva Endean | Composer/performer Sohan Hayes | Screen and Animation Jon Tarry | 3D Consultant Project Management and Production Melanie Naumoff | Project Coordination Guy Smith | Production Manager Partners Warmun Community Inc Western Australian Museum Waringarri Aboriginal Arts

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2022 Project Funding Partner The Western Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, Regional Arts & Cultural Investment program Made in WA Fund

Warnarral Ngoorrngoorrool | Photo by Edify Media

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Sound FX 10 August–2 September, 3–30 October Fitzroy Crossing, Kimberley

Sound FX commenced in 2017 by Tura and award-winning community music facilitator, researcher and educator Dr Gillian Howell.

Exploring music, story, cultural knowledge, and language through long term collaborations with education and community partners in the Fitzroy Valley, the project aims to strengthen and diversify the ways that music-making can support community goals around language knowledge, wellbeing, and healing.

Sound FX supports the revitalisation of local Aboriginal languages whilst developing new cultural works for performance, education and wider distribution, and creates new opportunities for community members to develop their musicianship and make music together in diverse ways. We look to support and enhance locally-grown creative projects through the annual visits of Tura and its artists.

Two residencies were held across 2022, with program director Dr Gillian Howell and a team of supporting facilitators specialising in music writing and recording, youth community theatre, clay-making, video, shadow puppetry and dance. This gave participants an opportunity to connect their learnings in music and storytelling with other audiovisual and physical modalities. Primary work was done with Fitzroy Valley District High School (FVDHS), Baya Gawiy Early Childhood Education Centre (BG) and Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre (Marnin), while performances engaged the full breadth of the community.

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Natalie Davey, Sound FX | Photo by Edify Media

Fitzroy Valley District High School students sing with Gillian Howell and Annika Moses, Sound FX | Photo by Edify Media

2022 Creative Team Gillian Howell | Program Director Natalie Davey | Local Producer and Facilitator Annika Moses | Workshop Facilitator Tara Gower | Dance Workshop Facilitator Rebecca Russell | Workshop Facilitator Elena Nees | Workshop Facilitator Edify Media | Photography and Videography Project Donors Irene Lawson & Brendan Kissane Project Funding Partners Healthway promoting the Act-Belong-Commit message Minderoo Foundation The Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages and Arts Program The Western Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries’ Creative Communities Recovery Program

Local Partners Fitzroy Valley District High School Baya Gawiy Children and Family Centre Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency Acknowledgements Tura and the artists thank the communities that have partnered with us and the First Nations people who call Fitzroy Crossing home, including the Walmajarri, Gooniyandi, Wangkatjungka Nyikina and Bunuba people. We thank these peoples for their ongoing care, custodianship and connection to the land. Thank you to the Elders and community members who have welcomed us onto Country.

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Shamicka partMusic of Kulininpalaju | Photo byReport Zoe Martyn 8 Sampi and Annika Moses Turaas New | 2022 Program

Kulininpalaju 2–30 September | Newman, Parnngurr, East Pilbara

Kulininpalaju is a long-term creative program partnership between Tura, Martumili Artists (MMA) and supported by BHP. The program provides Martu artists with a series of creative collaborations facilitated by leading Australian sound artists, which will culminate in a sound composition for the Warrarnku Ninti Light Show, presented as part of Martumili and Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa (KJ)’s yearly programming.

Following the approach of Martumili painters when producing visual art works for wider Australian and international audiences, the program explores the extensive possibilities of sound art in sharing Country, supporting intergenerational knowledge transfer, and providing fulfilling cultural experiences for Martu mob.

The 2022 residency took place in Newman at the Martumili Art Centre. Facilitated by sound artist’s Philip Samartzis, Annika Moses and Martumili staff member Zoe Martyn, Martu artists were mentored in various field-recording techniques, editing and composition as well as the development of new conceptual work, guided by Elders and input from community members.

Acknowledgements Tura and the artists thank the communities that have partnered with us and the Martu and Nyiyaparli people for their ongoing care, custodianship and connection to the land. Thank you to the Elders and community members who have welcomed us onto Country.

2022 Tura Team Philip Samartzis | Sound Artist Annika Moses | Sound Artist 2022 Community Artists Anya Samson Bethany Wumi Timera Frank Dale Samson Marlene Anderson Owen John Bilijabu Sheylene Taylor Derrick Butt Jenny Butt Thelma Judson Brianna Booth Tionne Gibson

Local Partners Martumili Artists Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa (KJ Rangers) Parnggurr Community Project Funding Partners BHP

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“This is a wonderful opportunity for me to celebrate and honour my Yamatji heritage through my contemporary experience.

The best moments happen around the fire late at night under the stars… I’m inspired to tell stories real and imagined.”

– Mark Atkins

Mungangga Garlagula Mark Atkins and Erkki Veltheim 24–30 July, 17–22 October Ukaria Cultural Centre, South Australia

Mungangga Garlagula is a collaboration in music, sound and story by legendary musicians Mark Atkins and Erkki Veltheim.

Together with a company of exceptional Australian musicians who have created a shifting bed of sound for the work, Mark and Erkki lead us into a nocturnal world of memories, echoes, spirits and dreams, conjuring Country through words and breath, the snapping of branches and the play of shadows between the listener by the fire and the impenetrable darkness beyond.

In 2022 two week-long creative developments of the work took place at Ukaria Cultural Centre in South Australia, developing the work for presentation in 2023.

Key Creatives Mark Atkins Erkki Veltheim Co-creatives/Musicians Genevieve Lacey Stephen Magnusson Anthony Pateras Scott Tinkler Vanessa Tomlinson Creative Team Niklas Pajanti | Lighting Design Ruth Little | Dramaturg Acknowledgements Commissioned by Tura with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body and Ulrike Klein AO.

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Mark Atkins and Erkki Veltheim in development for Mungangga Garlagula | Photo by Matt Byrne

Mark Atkins in the studio at Ukaria | Photo by Matt Byrne

Nightfalls 17–22 October | Ukaria Cultural Centre, South Australia

Nightfalls was a development showing of Mungangga Garlagula.

Presented and filmed at Ukaria Cultural Centre in South Australia, the program was presented in association with Ukaria as part of Finding Our Voice Festival. The filmed showing will be digitally available in 2023.

Key Creatives Mark Atkins Erkki Veltheim

Co-creatives/Musicians Genevieve Lacey Stephen Magnusson Anthony Pateras Scott Tinkler Vanessa Tomlinson Creative Team Ruth Little | Dramaturg Niklas Pajanti | Lighting Designer Acknowledgements Finding Our Voice is supported by UKARIA, Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative – and the following individuals and foundations: Ulrike Klein AO, Berg Family Foundation, The Yulgilbar Foundation, The Aranday Foundation, Playking Foundation and Julie Kantor AO.

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The Milk Carton Confessions Thea Rossen, Michael Sollis and Jesse Vivante October–November | Ellenbrook, City of Swan

Across four weeks, Thea Rossen, Michael Sollis and Jesse Vivante worked with Ellenbrook community members to create a bespoke version of The Milk Carton Confessions. The participants made percussion instruments out of recycled materials which appear in the show. They worked with Thea and Jesse to learn sections of the work culminating in a public performance that questioned our understanding of recycling, and invited audiences to consider their own recycling confessions.

Creative Team Michael Sollis | Composer Thea Rossen | Lead Artist and Percussion Jesse Vivante | Associate Artist and Percussion Performers Ellenbrook Community Performers Partners Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries’ Outer Metropolitan Arts Grant Program, City of Swan, Ellenbrook Arts, Bullsbrook Recycling Facility, Swan Home School Network

“The Milk Carton Confessions show is designed to connect with each community that hosts a performance and we were blown away by the welcome we received and the diversity of connections we were able to make with the support of Tura and Ellenbrook Arts during the project.”

– Thea Rossen, Lead Artist

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Alluvial Gold Louise Devenish, Stuart James and Erin Coates 20–22 June | Perth Institute of Contemporary Art

After premiering to a restricted audience at the 2021 Perth Festival, and a further development period, Alluvial Gold returned in 2022 to bring a visceral drama to the oftenforgotten worlds below the surface of the river. Sculptural percussion instruments modelled on dolphin bones, native oyster shells and marine ecology are paired with vibraphone and electronics in this theatrical performance installation.

Artistic Team Louise Devenish | Creative Direction and Performance Stuart James | Creative Direction and Composer Erin Coates | Video and Sculptural Instruments Mia Holton | Projection Design Bruce McKinven | Set Design Peter Young | Lighting Design Acknowledgements Co-presented with PICA and generously supported by the Western Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.

Dr Louise Devenish is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE200100555) funded by the Australian Government.

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“A fine example of Australian eco-artistry” — Kate Milliga, Australian Music Centre

“Alluvial Gold is not so much a performance as it is a journey through a densely rich world” – Stephanie Reisch, Arts Hub

Louise Devenish in Alluvial Gold, PICA | Photo by Edify Media

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Summers Night Mentees | Photo by Olivia Davies

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Summers Night Mentoring Project 18–24 March | Melbourne

Following a covid delayed 2020/21, the Summers Night Women’s Mentoring Project for female and non-binary composers took place in Melbourne as a four day workshop at The Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music, Monash University where the five mentee composers worked intensively with the mentorship team to realise their works.

The workshop period allowed for group professional development sessions alongside networking opportunities. The five premiere works were recorded at the ABC studios in Melbourne followed by an enthusiastically received performance at the Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre.

Mentors Cat Hope Vanessa Tomlinson Gabriella Smart Erik Griswold Damien Ricketson Olivia Davies Aaron Wyatt Blair Harris Composer mentees Aviva Endean (VIC) Bree van Reyk (NSW) Frankie Dyson Reilly (QLD) Kate Milligan (WA) Hilary Kleinig (SA)

Partners Soundstream Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music, Music Monash University APRA AMCOS QLD Conservatorium, Griffith University Sydney Conservatorium of Music Decibel New Music Ensemble Clocked Out ABC Classic Philanthropic Partners Sydney Community Foundation’s Women Composers Fund and its associated donors Acknowledgements Soundstream have been funded for this project by The Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding advisory body.

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While You Sleep Kate Neal & Sal Cooper 29–30 April | The Street Theatre, Canberra 13–16 July | PICA, Perth Cultural Centre

After a development period in January with a focus on lighting, video design and dramaturgy, Tura produced seasons of While You Sleep in Canberra and Perth. String quartet, piano, electronics, gesture, design, light, video and animation in a surreal counterpoint of music, movement and image took audiences on a journey through uncertain landscapes, exploring borders between grief and identity, reality and illusion, flight, escape, memory and dissociation.

Creative Directors Kate Neal | Music Sal Cooper | Screen-Based Media Creative Team Jackson Castiglione | Dramaturg and Co-Director Jacob Abela | Keyboards Isabel Hede | Violin Zachary Johnston | Violin Phoebe Green | Viola David Moran | Cello Additive Design | Lighting and AV Design James Savage | AX and Audio Systems Design Partners The Australia Council Contemporary Touring Fund The Street Theatre Canberra Canberra International Music Festival PICA

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While You Sleep performance, PICA | Photo by Edify Media

While You Sleep performance, PICA | Photo by Edify Media

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Wild Violins, painted by students | Photo by Annika Moses

Wild Violins of Warmun 30 October–5 November | Warmun, East Kimberley

In 2018, the Wild Violins of Warmun program was initiated by renowned composer, performer, and teacher Dr Hollis Taylor.

Students at Ngalangangpum School created new sound worlds and storylines on forty violins brought to the community for the project.

The 2022 iteration of The Wild Violins saw the introduction of dance and music workshops by Yawuru woman and former Bangarra dancer Tara Gower and sound artist Annika Moses.

Students aged 4–13 years old were engaged in creating their own contemporary dance inspired by themes of family and fire, a strong presence in Gija culture. The middle and high school groups wrote their own songs showcasing school pride, confidence, and healthy living, including the songs Warmun! and Gija Girls. Tura facilitators had the privilege of travelling to Winiper Springs with local Elder and artist Evelyn Malgil, community members, and Ngalangangpum students to be blessed and swim in the waters that hold a significant creation story for the area.

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In a culmination of the residency’s activities, the students performed in a whole school and community show, sharing artwork and drawings, newly learned violin techniques, songs performed by the school band, and contemporary dance pieces that they had created across the week.

Artists Annika Moses | Facilitator Tara Gower | Facilitator Community Partners Ngalangangpum School Warmun Community Inc. Warmun Art Centre Project Funding Partners Healthway promoting the Act-Belong-Commit message Acknowledgements Tura and the artists thank the communities that have partnered with us, and the Gija people for their ongoing care, custodianship and connection to the land. Thank you to the Elders and community members who have smoked and blessed us, welcoming us onto their Country.

Inner Cities, Gabriella Smart | Photo by Eduardo Cossio

Inner Cities Gabriella Smart 22 January | WA Museum Boola Bardip

Beginning in 1991 as a single innocent piano piece, Inner Cities evolved into a musical cycle of twelve pieces performed in its sixhour entirety. Described by Alex Ross of the New Yorker as “vast and all-consuming”, Inner Cities celebrates the great cities Alvin Curran has inhabited through a series of pieces comprising the piano cycle. Audiences experienced a six-hour celebration of space, light, meditation and transcendence of time beyond normal conception within the walls of the WA Museum Boola Bardip Hackett Hall.

Artists Gabriella Smart | Piano Alvin Curran | Music Partners The WA Museum Boola Bardip Australian Piano Warehouse

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CO-PRODUCTIONS Night Songs 26–28 October | Carriageworks, Sydney

Presented as part of Performance Space Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art and created by Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor, Night Songs was a remarkable sonic experience: an interspecies engagement between the thirteen million year old music of a uniquely Australian songbird – The Pied Butcherbird and contemporary human musicians.

Performed by Ensemble Offspring under the direction of Claire Edwardes, audiences experienced the Pied Butcherbirds long form songs, recorded over a twenty-four hour period in spring, in a one hour concentrated audio-visual encounter.

Creative team Jon Rose | Composer Hollis Taylor | Co-composer and Musicologist Ensemble Offspring | Performers Claire Edwardes | Conductor, Percussion and Artistic Director Jason Noble | Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Lamorna Nightingale | Flutes Benjamin Ward | Double Bass Callum G’Froerer | Trumpet Rhys Little | Trombone Ben Hoadley | Bassoon Ben Opie | Oboe Acknowledgements Presented by Performance Space, Ensemble Offspring and Tura.

Night Songs was presented as part of Performance Space Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, and with the support of the City of Sydney and APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund.

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SITU8:CITY at the Liberty Theatre | Photo by Jed Lyall

SITU-8:CITY Site specific dance and sound works STRUT Dance and SITU-8 team 1–11 November | Liberty Theatre

After a successful season in 2020 and 2021, eight new site specific dance and sound works filled the newly reopened Liberty Cinema, Perth’s oldest arthouse cinema as part of SITU8:City. Situ-8 continues to be a unique opportunity for independent artists to explore an exciting model of presenting independent choreography and sound in enticing and unexpected locations.

Creatives CURATORIAL TEAM Sofie Burgoyne and Timothy Green with assistance from Ashleigh White.

CHOREOGRAPHERS Antonio Rinaldi and Celina Hage, Bobby Russell, Daisy Sanders, Olivia Hendry and Kimberly Parkin, Sam Coren, Sarah Aiken, Talitha Maslin, and Tom Mullane.

COMPOSERS Alice Humphries, David Stewart and Nonie Trainor, Em Burrows, Eduardo Cossio, Felicity Groom, Louis Frere-Harvey, Peter McAvan, and Randa Khamis.

Acknowledgements Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative, the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts – its arts and funding advisory body, the City of Perth, and the State of Western Australia though the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.

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2 Minutes from Home | Photo by Edify Media

Decibel UK Tour

2 Minutes from Home

Decibel New Music Ensemble

Decibel New Music Ensemble

November 2022 | United Kingdom

11 July | Luna Leederville

Tura supported Decibel New Music Ensemble to participate in the UK/Australia Season 2021–22, a landmark cultural exchange celebrating the diverse and innovative artist communities and cultural sectors of each nation. Decibel toured five concert programs across six venues in November, with highlights including appearances at the prestigious Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Café Oto in London.

The world premiere live performance of Decibel’s 2 Minutes from Home commissioning project. Commissioned during Covid and for digital presentation the twenty one, two minute works were reinterpreted for live performance accompanied by the score videos on the big screen.

Decibel New Music Ensemble Cat Hope | Artistic Director and Flutes Tristen Parr | Cello Aaron Wyatt | Violin, Viola and Ipad Programming Lindsay Vickery | Reeds Louise Devenish | Percussion Acknowledgements Decibel in the UK|Australia Season is supported by the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Western Australian State Government through the Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries. Monash University, Edith Cowan University

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Creatives Decibel New Music Ensemble Michael Terren | Guest Artist Partners Revelation Perth International Film Festival Decibel New Music Ensemble Monash University

Electroluminescence Dance Film Sound Lab Jonathan Fitzgerald (WA)

Dance Film + Sound workshop

New works for electric guitar, electronics, and visual projections

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19 January | Lyric’s Underground

An immersive film, choreography and sound workshop for dancers, dance makers and composers, in which participants explored filming dance and creating choreography and sound for the camera. Beginning with improvisation and ways of looking at movement and sound through the camera lens, the process gave essential filming and editing skills and encouraged imaginative and innovative ways of making and capturing movement, considering light, sound, space, time and location/environment.

An immersive multimedia concert of works for electric guitar, electronics, and visual projections, performed by head of Guitar at the University of Western Australia Conservatorium of Music for one night only.

Entitled Electroluminescence, the program featured world premiere performances of three new commissions from Australian and international composers, including two-time Aria Award-winning composer James Ledger (WA), Gulli Bjornsson (Iceland), and emerging composer Victor Arul (WA), alongside the Australian premiere of works by Eve Beglarian (USA) and Alison Isadora (NZ).

Key Creative Jonathan Fitzgerald | Composer and Guitar Partners Fringeworld University of WA Conservatorium of Music

2 Minutes from Home | Photo by Edify Media

Lead Artists Deborah May Adelina Larrson Dance Artists Briannah Davis Aisha Samat Jessica Pettitt Tessa Redman Xin Ong Zakayyah MacLean

Sound Artists Izzy French Moses Kington-Walberg Ozlem Kesik Sophia Hansen Knarhoi Matthew Cole Partners STRUT Dance

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IN DEVELOPMENT Gradient In 2022, Composer and Photographer Olivia Davies, Trumpeter Callum G’Froerer and Media Designer Nick Roux undertook further development of Gradient at the Liberty Theatre.

Gradient is an exploration of digital saturation, compulsive modern behaviours and the ways we digitally represent ourselves and our experiences.

The artists worked with large scale projection, live photography, digital software design and double-bell improvisations as part of the development.

Gradient will premiere as part of Perth Festival in 2023.

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Creative Team Olivia Davies | Composer and Photographer Callum G’Froerer | Co-composer and Double-bell Trumpet Nick Roux | System Design Joshua Pether | Dramaturge and Movement Consultant Partners The Liberty Theatre Project Funding Partners Minderoo Foundation The Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding advisory body The Western Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries

HIGHLIGHTS 2022 APRA AMCOS ART MUSIC AWARD, EXCELLENCE IN A REGIONAL AREA

PURRUMPA | FIRST NATIONS ARTS AND CULTURE NATIONAL GATHERING

Sonus3 Program and Tour with Marrugeku

In October 2022 Marninwarntikura Women's Resource Centre and its early childhood education and care program Baya Gawiy were invited to present at this significant gathering in partnership with Tura and the University of Melbourne. The presentation described Baya Gawiy’s groundbreaking approach to language revitalisation through storytelling and songwriting in early childhood education.

Tura’s Sound FX Program, facilitated by Dr Gillian Howell, is closely entwined with this work, having facilitated and collaborated on the development of new songs and musical resources in heritage languages at Baya Gawiy over the last four years.

Tura Artistic Director Tos Mahoney along with Tura Producer Tristen Parr were in Melbourne in August at the Art Music Awards to accept the award for Excellence in a Regional Area for the Sonus3 program and tour, reaching communities across the Kimberley.

Sonus3 was a meeting of cultural forces, ancient and contemporary, through song, music and dance reflecting the breadth of Australia. The Sonus3 Tour was presented with a program that spoke directly to the places and communities of the Kimberley. Tura and Marrugeku artists collaborated for over two years and Sonus3 was a celebration and first presentation of this collaboration.

Purrumpa was convened by the Australia Council for the Arts and was the largest national gathering of First Nations arts and culture in 50 years. It was an incredible privilege to be a part of this event, and to continue our work in the Fitzroy Valley with Baya Gawiy in 2023.

Sonus3 Concert at Sun Pictures, Broome, 2021 | Photo by Michael Jalaru Torres

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TURA PEOPLE 2022 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2022 TEAM

Simon Dawkins (Chair) Rod Campbell Heather Zampatti Julian Tompkin Vanessa Elliott Dominique Monteleone Zelinda Bafile Alison Gaines

Tos Mahoney | Artistic Director/CEO Dunja Rmandic | General Manager Tristen Parr | Producer Tara Gower | Regional Producer Sian Murphy | Communications Coordinator Jane House | Business Administration Annika Moses | Regional Project Coordinator Pauline Sikweti | Finance Officer Niki Davison | Project Officer Jo Malone | Development

2022 PARTNERS GOVERNMENT FUNDING PARTNERS

REGIONAL PARTNERS

Tura is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding advisory body and the Western Australia State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries in association with Lotterywest.

Baya Gawiy Buga Yani Jandu Yani U Fitzroy Valley District High School Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa Rangers, Newman Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre Martumili Artists Ngalangangpum School Parnngurr Community Waringarri Aboriginal Arts Warmun Community Inc

GOVERNMENT PROJECT FUNDING PARTNERS The Western Australia Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries The Australian government through the Australia Council, its arts funding advisory body The Australian Government Office for the Arts, Indigenous Languages and Arts program REGIONAL PROGRAM SPONSORS BHP Healthway promoting the Act Belong Commit message Minderoo Foundation 2022 PRINCIPAL DONORS Irene Lawson and Brendan Kissane Charmaine and Bruce Cameron Helen Symon and Ian Lulham Katrina Chisholm Philip Yetton and Joan Spiller Vanya Cullen Elizabeth Fong 2022 SUPPORTING FOUNDATIONS The Minderoo Foundation The Alexandra and Lloyd Martin Foundation The Feilman Foundation The Bux Foundation The Mietta Foundation

METROPOLITAN AND OUTER-METRO PROJECT PARTNERS APRA AMCOS Australian Music Centre Clocked Out Decibel New Music Ensemble Ellenbrook Arts Griffith University Monash University Outcome Unknown Performance Space PICA Queensland Conservatorium Revelation Perth International Film Festival Soundstream STRUT Dance Sydney Conservatorium of Music The Canberra International Music Festival The City of Perth The City of Swan The Liberty Theatre Tone List The Street Ukaria Cultural Centre Western Australian Museum Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University Tura gratefully acknowledges the support of Cullen Wines across its metropolitan and national programs

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