Season 2

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50 minutes Arts at House Anicca Wed 2 – Sun 6 November Sun – 2 Wed North Town Hall Town Melbourne North Speak Percussion

Matthias Schack-Arnott & Schack-Arnott Matthias Arts House Arts Creative Team Artist Statement

Director, Composer, Performer: Matthias Schack-Arnott Anicca = impermanence. Performer: Eugene Ughetti Creative Engineering: Richard Allen All physical and mental events come into Video System: being and dissolve. Pete Brundle & James Sandri (PDA) Production Manager & Lighting: Richard Dinnen (Megafun) Artist Interns: All temporal things, whether material or mental, are Jonathan Griffiths & Hamish Upton Producer: compounded objects in a continuous change of Michaela Coventry condition, subject to decline and destruction.

Time is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience.

— Matthias Schack-Arnott Biographies

Matthias Schack-Arnott Eugene has conducted ELISION in the Huddersfield Megafun Director, Composer and Performer Festival and for multiple international labels. • • Megafun has over 18 years of experience providing Matthias Schack-Arnott’s work explores ambitious He won the inaugural Sidney Myer Creative creative and technical services to the arts, exhibitions, approaches to percussive performance, often involving Fellowship (2012), MCA/Freedman Fellowship for major events and entertainment.The company has the development of new instrumental set-ups built in Classical Music (2011) and various Art Music Awards provided services throughout the world to a huge collaboration with architects, engineers and for his work with Speak Percussion including number of companies, artists and exhibitions. technicians. He has won multiple Green Room Awards Excellence in Experimental Music (2016). including ‘Outstanding Work by an Emerging Artist’ Megafun’s staff cover a broad range of disciplines, from for his 2014 work Fluvial, and is a finalist for the Richard Allen interactive exhibition and theatrical project concept 2016 Melbourne Prize for Music in the Creative Engineer and design through to lighting design, set design, ‘Development’ category. • multimedia development, production and stage An engineer and musician, Richard has been creating management, technical direction, administration and At the age of 21 Schack-Arnott was invited to be the custom musical instruments and physically interactive project co-ordination. Artistic Associate of Speak Percussion. He recently sculptural works with sound for the past 18 years won the 2016 Art Music Award for Excellence in whilst also working commercially as an animatronics The company specialises in delivering quality theatre Experimental Music. engineer and animator for stage, TV and gaming. and events and creating intriguing experiences which Richard has a passion for creating new modes of are highly interactive and engaging. As a guest artist Schack-Arnott appears with the expression and experience through technology and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australian Art uses playful environments and objects to encourage Orchestra, Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra, exploration and collaboration often exploring Speak Percussion ELISION, and has worked with luminaries including confrontational themes. • Steve Reich, John Zorn, The Necks, Ilan Volkov, Liza Speak Percussion has defined the sound of 21st Lim, Michael Pisaro and Oren Ambarchi. Creative partners include: Matthias Schack-Arnott, century Australian percussion music through the Robbie Avenaim, Robin Fox, James Hullick and the creation and presentation of ambitious arts projects. Performance highlights include Berliner Festspiele Amplified Elephants, Michaela Davies, Rene Wooler, Internationally recognised as a leader in the fields of (Germany), Roullette (New York), Barbican (London), Global Creatures, Fed Square Light in Winter crew, experimental and contemporary classical music, Speak CONNECT Festival (Sweden), Komunitas Salihara Maribyrnong Council, Electrofringe, the Rainbow are constantly seeking to redefine the potential of (Indonesia) & SPOR Festival (Denmark). Serpent Festival and Atari/Melbourne House. percussion.

Eugene Ughetti Studio PDA Over it’s sixteen-year history, Speak Percussion has Performer • engaged in world-class, risk-taking and innovative • Studio PDA is operated by designer/coders Pete projects with many of the world’s leading exponents of Eugene Ughetti is the Artistic Director of Speak Brundle and James Sandri. Known for an ability to experimental and new music including Steve Reich Percussion, his practice spans performance, cross disciplines, PDA focus on designing elegant (USA), Ilan Volkov (ISRAEL), The Necks (AUS), Liza composition, conducting and direction. From solo digital systems for a range of contexts including web, Lim (VIC), Oren Ambarchi (VIC), Mark Applebaum experimental works through to large scale installation, video and performance. (USA) and Richard Barrett (UK). collaborations, Eugene is known for tackling complex and ambitious art music projects. Clients and collaborators include Lynette Wallworth, International appearances include Maerzmusik The Design Files, Jacky Winter, National Gallery of (Germany), SONICA (UK), Barbican (UK), Tage für He has worked with some of the world’s guiding , Chunky Move, Jardan, Tin & Ed, Genevieve Neue Musik, Zurich (Switzerland), TIPC (Taiwan), lights in new music including Pierre Boulez, Steve Lacey, , Dumbo Feather, The Salihara (Indonesia), CONNECT (Sweden), ARENA Reich and John Zorn. Wheeler Centre, David Pledger, Bluebottle, Windmill (Latvia), GAIDA (Lithuania), Batteries IV (Switzerland) Theatre, Oom Creative, Nat Cursio, The Flaming and Café OTO (UK). Eugene has given international solo performances at Beacon, Projects of Imagination, A Friend of Mine, MaerzMusik (Berlin), Roulette (New York), Lucerne Seesaw, Studio Round and Speak Percussion. Speak has accumulated many accolades, including Festival (Switzerland), National Museum (Singapore) three APRA/AMCOS & AMC Art Music Awards, most and was concerto soloist with the Melbourne and recently for Excellence in Experimental Music for it’s Adelaide Symphony Orchestras. 2015 program.

He has composed works for Speak Percussion, The Australian Ballet, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and ABC. Thank You Arts House

Angharad Wynne-Jones and Arts House, Arts House is a program of the City of Melbourne and our home Hamish Upton, Jonathan Griffiths, Thomas Burless, is North Melbourne Town Hall. Niharika Senapati, Karin Schack, Robin Fox, Melbourne’s centre for Andrew Arnott & Freya Schack-Arnott. And of course contemporary and experimental performance, Arts House provides to the incredible team behind Anicca, especially a nexus for cultural expression Richard Allen, who was able to realise an artist’s and social connection in a city impossible request. environment. Arts House is committed to championing independent artists’ practice, Supported by the federal government through the developing contemporary, Council, it’s arts funding and advisory body; experimental and participatory work and engaging audiences. the Victoria State Government through Creative Locally engaged with the diverse Victoria and the Department of Education and Training; communities that surround it City of Darebin; The Substation, Megafun and Arts and a collaborator across the city, Arts House engages not just House through the City of Melbourne. an arts audience, but a broad spectrum of audience and participants.

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