October 2024
As we enter Wirltuti/spring-time on Kaurna land, Soundstream has some wonderful growth to share - Omnium-gatherum, a series of piano performances coming up at Aldinga Beach; some exciting new additions to our team and Board; and an update on the Emerging Composers’ Forum, returning in 2025, with a call-out to be released early November!
Read more about all our recent and upcoming projects below; and we hope to see you at a Soundstream concert soon!
On The Terrace
Festival of Chamber Music
Sunday 3 November 2024
11am – 4pm
Chamber Music Adelaide present a free mini-festival of 45 pop up chamber music concerts and workshops in the iconic galleries, museums and creative spaces on North Terrace, featuring Soundstream’s Gabriella Smart (Seaboard Roli / Electric Cristal) and Mark Cauvin (double bass).
On The Terrace also includes two world premieres, including Becky Llewellyn’s Barossa Girl.
Omnium-gatherum:
Marianna Grynchuk // Gabriella Smart
Welcome to Omnium-gatherum, a ‘medley of various things‘ around the piano in two solo concerts in November and December, featuring two acclaimed pianists with divergent practices.
Friday November 22nd @ 7pm: Marianna Grynchuk
Franz Schubert - Four Schubert Impromptus D935
Connor D’Netto - Witness
Elizabeth Jigalin - Lichen Loops for piano, playback and mobile phone
Franz Liszt - Après une Lecture du Dante - Fantasia quasi Sonata
Where: The Loft - 16 Fraser Street, Aldinga Beach SA 5173
Tickets (via Trybooking): $30 / $20 concession
Sunday December 1st @ 2pm: Gabriella Smart
Gabriella Smart - Nuance for piano and Seaboard Roli
Where: The Loft - 16 Fraser Street, Aldinga Beach SA 5173
Tickets (via Trybooking): $30 / $20 concession
Emerging Composers’ Forum 2025
Video: Janie Wells - Patricia Boko Interview (Inarma Choir, July 2024)
Soundstream invites Australian emerging composers to participate in the 2025 Soundstream Emerging Composers’ Forum (ECF) between May 15-19.
Five participants will be selected through this national call-out to join a creative development retreat in the serenity of Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park, an extraordinary landscape that fosters inspiration and creativity.
This 5th iteration of the ECF creates a safe place for composers across cultures to share knowledge, working with senior song women, and leading international site-specific music practitioners. This unique learning environment fosters the sharing of ideas, collaboration, cultural knowledge exchange, new concepts, and inspiration to push boundaries in all directions. At the conclusion of the Forum, the five composers will all receive a $2000 commission to write new works inspired by their experience. These works may subsequently be presented by Soundstream.
The 2025 ECF provides an extraordinary opportunity to work with the Inarma Choir (SA/NT), an acapella chamber choir who will share their rich Indigenous choral tradition. The Choir are senior songwomen whose spiritual roots span 60,000 years. They have been singing on Country together in Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara for 50 years, and have recently been joined by their younger family members, strengthening intergenerational ties and making the choir wiru mulapa (strong).
The 2025 ECF will also embrace site-specific music-making, taking the Aldinga Scrub and found objects as inspiration, with mentorship from esteemed site-specific music practitioners Jesse Budel (AUS) and Cheryl Leonard (USA).
Stay tuned for more details to be announced!
Board member announcements:
Emily Tulloch // Paul Mason
Soundstream is thrilled to announce the appointment of two new board members as of September - Emily Tulloch and Paul Mason. Both members bring incredible experience and expertise from their careers in arts and cultural leadership, with a specific focus on music and sound culture. Read more about Emily and Paul below...
Image credit: Morgan Sette
Emily Tulloch is an arts leader and musician working as an artistic director, facilitator, violinist, and composer-arranger, with a passion for the creation, instigation, and support of contemporary music in Tarntanya/Adelaide, and beyond. Emily is CEO and Artistic Director at Nexus Arts, where she leads the organisation in their presentation and development work with culturally and linguistically diverse and First Nations artists, promoting an intercultural vision of Australian contemporary arts. She was a member of Zephyr Quartet from 2005 to 2020, and with the ensemble created critically acclaimed, award-winning shows; performed internationally and across Australia; received two Ruby Awards for Innovation and three APRA/AMCOS Australian Art Music Awards. Recent projects include co-composition and recording the score for Restless Dance Theatre’s ‘Exposed’ and cocreation of the show ‘Needle in the Hay: the music of Elliott Smith’. She has acted as assessor and juror for national assessment panels including the APRA Art Music Awards, the Australian Women in Music Awards, and for many funding bodies. She is a Director of the Adelaide UNESCO City of Music Board.
Paul Mason is a specialist music consultant, with experience in broadcasting and government.
From 2009 - 2019 Paul was the Director, Music the Australia Council for the Arts, leading the design and implementation of strategies and funding programs for music. Since 2019 he has worked independently advising artists, organisations, government and industry clients on strategy, project management and business planning. In addition Paul is the manager of composer, performer and cultural leader David Bridie. Paul is also a director of the Peggy Glanville Hicks Composers House Trust, and the City Recital Hall Sydney. Paul was a board member of Sydney’s Radio FBi 94.5 from its establishment to the year 2000 when the station was awarded its permanent broadcast licence. Between 2004 - 2007 he was Chair of Music NSW, the state based contemporary music service organisation.
Introducing Hen Vaughan, Administrator
Soundstream is also delighted to announce the appointment of Administrator Hen Vaughan. Joining the Soundstream team in June, Hen has been handing over from outgoing Administrator and Associate Artistic Director Jesse Budel, after many years of incredible work with the organisation. We thank Jesse for his outstanding contribution to Soundstream. More about Hen below:
Hen Vaughan is a writer, artist and arts worker based on unceded Kaurna yerta. Weaving experimental writing and live art, they are curious about the politics and poetics of in/visible illness, embodied experiences of wearable technology, and relationships between the body and written text.
Hen has produced and collaborated locally and nationally on performances, workshops, walking tours, publications, community radio programs, audio descriptions and artist camps.
Some recent projects include; Public Program Curator (with William Maggs) for 'Yucky', Adelaide Contemporary Experimental; Project Coordinator for fine print magazine's COMMON WORDS; and as a current Guest editor (with Ava Lacoon-Robinson and Claire Osborn-Li) on Artlink's forthcoming Warltatti edition. Previously, Hen was a Co-Director at FELTspace ARI (2018-2021).
Hen was also awarded a 2024 Carclew Fellowship to work with artist mentors Debris Facility Pty Ld and V Barratt.
