Cranky Robotics
Featuring James Hullick and the Amplified Elephants
Open your mind and treat your ears to a FREE afternoon of augmented sound art by James Hullick and the Amplified Elephants on Sunday 6 May.
Melbourne composer, pianist, vocalist and sound artist James Hullick is renowned for using sound to engage in social issues and for the past two years he has been collaborating with The Amplified Elephants, an eight member inter-abilities ensemble, made up of international and local musicians including percussionist Eugene Ughetti, instrument engineer Richard Allen, and program participants on piano and percussion Joseph Butera, Liz Hofbauer, Robyn Mc Grath, June Bentley, Enza Practico and Jay Euesden. The Amplified Elephants developed as a group out of their participation in Footscray Community Arts Centre’s ArtLife Sound Art Program, a program that provides musical training to people with an intellectual disability. The skills-based Sound Art Program encourages and develops the art of listening, persistence, writing scores and lyrics, and learning how to perform in front of other people.
James Hullick has applied an innovative approach to working with the ArtLife participants, believing that the goal of his work ”is to help each participant on the way to becoming sound artists – a person who makes art with sound”. In the positive environment he has created, amazing results have been achieved, including the mind altering concert event Cranky Robotics.
Cranky Robotics features James’s cranky robotic machine which augments the actions of The Amplified Elephant musicians to the delight and astonishment of audiences. Moments of heightened sensory mayhem contrast with static elegance as this ensemble forges a new direction in sound art over an entertaining afternoon.
Sunday 6 May, 3pm
Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
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