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.

12.00 – 1.00: Sonic-Visual Interactions

Where are the Sounds of Joy? (short film)
Dr Iqbal Barkat (Macquarie University/PhD graduate, Western Sydney University)
Associate Professor Bruce Crossman (Western Sydney University)

M’fhíorghrá (My Love) (improvisation and film)
Jess Graham (voice/violin) (DCA candidate Western Sydney University)
Joseph Tabua (electric guitar) (DCA candidate Western Sydney University)
Dr Holly Harrison (drums) (DCA graduate Western Sydney University)

Improvisation (improvisation and digital visuals)
Joseph Tabua (electric guitar) (DCA candidate Western Sydney University)
Dr Holly Harrison (drums) (DCA graduate Western Sydney University)

Deeply Non-Isochronic Groove (improvisation and digital visuals)
Dr Andrew J. Milne Band—DNIG!
(MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University)(electronics)

The Water Vessel (short film) LA Asian Pacific FilmFest 2014 (Official Selection)
Dr Iqbal Barkat (Macquarie University/PhD graduate, Western Sydney University)
Dr Petar Jovanov (music) (DCA graduate, Western Sydney University)

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 artists

• Music of Bruce Crossman
• Performer Jessica Graham
• Performer Holly Harrison
• Performer Joseph Tabua
• Music of Petar Jovanov