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SONGLINES
Date: 19 May, 2005
SONGLINES
A project by William Barton and Fabrica Musica, in collaboration with Scatola Sonora.
World premiere at the Leuciana Festival in Caserta, Chiostro S.Agostino on July, 1° 2005, with a second performance on July 2, at 08.30 pm.
SONGLINES is an original project created by William Barton in collaboration with three percussionists, Hai-Ting Liao, Cory Hills and Josh Hogan, during their time at Fabrica, the Benetton research center on communication, between January and July 2005.
Landscape holds special meaning for Indigenous Australians. William Barton, young virtuoso of the didjeridoo, who is also a Native of the Australian outback, has composed an original score for a didgeridoo, string quartet and percussion ensemble which seeks to connect the meaning of the land for Aboriginal Australians and the meaning that landscape holds for Italian people. The piece explores the way that stories and songs are used in both cultures to pass on oral history and meaning. The main source of inspiration from a North-Eastern Italian perspective is the river Piave, its history and its meaning for the people living nearby.
William’s piece is augmented by several original percussion compositions. These pieces are unified by the idea that a gradually shifting pulse and repetition can be used to represent a linear progression through time and a connection with the ‘lines’ in the title. All of the percussion compositions use aspects of repetition, drawing on a diversity of rhythms and sounds, a sonic representation of the diversity experienced within Fabrica.
Songlines part 1
“Call of the Earth” for didgeridoo, voice and percussion.
Percussion song 1
“Dreamtime”, for thumb piano, prepared vibraphone, percussion and electronics.
Percussion song 2
“BreathBeat” for Nigerian “Udu” drum and electronics.
Songlines part 2
“Kalkadoon Language Song” for string quartet, didgeridoo, voice and drum.
Dreamtime Story
“the Rainbow Serpent”.
Percussion song 3
“Is it Happening?”, for percussion ambience.
Percussion song 4
“What lies between”, for mixed drums.
Songlines part 3, “The Enchanted” for string quartet, voice, percussion trio and didgeridoo.
Songlines will be reflected through the rivers and waterways. With a strong connection to the Australian landscape and songlines through Delma Barton’s voice, Hai-Ting Liao, Josh Hogan and Cory Hills on percussion, with the electronic accompaniment of Andres Reymondes Mutti, the Scatola Sonora strings quartet made by Michelangelo Massa, Alessandro Cervo, Piero Massa and Felice De Falco, Carlos Casas’s imagery of mountains and rivers with the changing of the seasons and Holger Stenschke bringing his technical and sound expertise.
William Barton is the leading didgeridoo soloist performing extensively with major orchestras and artists overseas and throughout Australia and recording and commissioning new works for the instrument. He is a descendant of the Kalkadunga people of North-West Queensland and began learning the didgeridoo at age eight. He is Australia's first didgeridoo artist in residence with the Queensland Orchestra. In May 2005 William Barton also debuted with the London Philharmonic.
For further information:
Lisa Martelli/ Fabrica
Tel. +39-0422-516228
lisa@fabrica.it
www.fabrica.it
Files for Download:
Australian musicians' bios (australians_only.doc - 24.064 kb)
Ass. Scatola Sonora (ScatolaSonora'05 presentazione.doc - 410.624 kb)
Leuciana Festival (Leuciana Festival.doc - 92.672 kb)
press release_ita (Comunicato_ita.doc - 28.16 kb)
String quartet bios (BIOGRAFIE QUARTETTO.doc - 31.744 kb)
High-res Group Photo (Songlines-Groupphoto.tif - 6842.472 kb)
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