Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

The Creativity Unlimited Festival will run over two days on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd Septermber 2016, and help launch the brand new, state of the art music precinct at Western Sydney University's Kingswood Campus. Schools and individuals are invited to attend on either or both days. Please register through the festival website.

The festival seeks to immerse the community in a broad ranging music making: from free improvisation and Indie rock, through to cutting edge contemporary classical sounds, and live-digital visuals and filmmaking. The objective is the creative exploration of energizing-silence—the energizing of silence, or near inaudibility, or visual stasis, with frenetic explosions of sonic and visual energy in such a way that the silence or stasis is imbued with the possibility of the emergence of a ‘something.’

This two-day festival includes four concerts featuring the best music performances of music staff and students at Western Sydney University. Hear their musical compositions and improvisations, and hear the work of Australia's leading edge musicians performing live in the Playhouse.

3.00–4.00: Duos Concert

Performers: Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Timothy Phillips (percussion) and Iqbal Barkat (live digital projections)

Brake Dance (percussion, piano)
Dr Holly Harrison (DCA graduate, Western Sydney University)

New Work (percussion, piano)
Professor Tomoyuki Hisatome (Aichi University of the Arts)

Kyrie (percussion, piano)
Dr Clare Maclean (Western Sydney University)

Ariel (percussion, piano)
Eve Duncan, (DCA candidate, Western Sydney University)

New Work (percussion, piano)
Professor Akira Kobayahsi (Aichi University of the Arts)

Fragrant Rain Clouds of Love (percussion, piano, digital projections)
Associate Professor Bruce Crossman (Western Sydney University)

Featured non-Australian music: Tomoyuki Hisatome, Akira Kobayahsi

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (02) 9852 5222 or by email to EnquiriesHCA@westernsydeny.edu.au

Featured Australian Works

	Ariel : for timpani and piano (1997) by Eve Christina Duncan — performed by Michael Kieran Harvey and Timothy Phillips
	Brake dance : piano and percussion duo (2016) by Holly Harrison — performed by Timothy Phillips and Michael Kieran Harvey
	Fragrant rain clouds of love : for percussion and piano (2016) by Bruce Crossman — World premiere — performed by Timothy Phillips and Michael Kieran Harvey
	Kyrie : for piano, vibraphone and percussion : piano and percussion duo (2015) by Clare Maclean — performed by Timothy Phillips and Michael Kieran Harvey

Featured artists

• Performer Michael Kieran Harvey
• Performer Timothy Phillips