AUSTRALIA | MUSIC
JOLT ARTS AND MELBOURNE FESTIVAL IN PARTNERSHIP
WITH THE CLICK CLACK PROJECT, FOOTSCRAY COMMUNITY
ARTS CENTRE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE PRESENT
THESE
COMPULSIVE
BEHAVIOURS
WORKS BY JAMES HULLICK FOR
ORCHESTRA AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
As the audience begin to take
their seats, a man stands onstage,
silently composing music notation.
Within the hour, he’s joined onstage
by an orchestra – the musicians
seize their freshly minted sheet
music and begin to play, even as
the composer works furiously to
complete the piece.
So begins the first program of a
remarkable music event conceived
by maverick Australian composer
James Hullick (Bruchlandung).
A turbulent succession of ten
experimental chamber orchestra
works, These Compulsive
Behaviours is a series of fractured
soundscapes crafted as a gift of
love for Hullick’s partner, Charlotte
Bolcskey.
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Playing with form and tone, Hullick
reframes unorthodox noise art
as romantic devotion, weaving
cut-up electronica with snippets of
text, slow-melting glacial blocks
of sound and the play of colour in
darkness.
Artists include BOLT Ensemble,
Arcko Symphonic Ensemble,
Amplified Elephants, Noise
Scavengers, Pansy Nilgut,
Michael Kieran Harvey, Richard
Allen, Jonathan Duckworth
For detailed repertoire information see
melbournefestival.com.au/jolt
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PART 1
IWAKI AUDITORIUM
Wed 15 Oct at 7pm
Doors open 6pm
2 hrs with interval
PART 2
IWAKI AUDITORIUM
Wed 15 Oct at 9.30pm
1 hr 15 mins with interval
PART 3
FOOTSCRAY COMMUNITY
ARTS CENTRE
Thu 23 Oct at 7.30pm
1 hr 40 mins with interval
PART 4
FOOTSCRAY COMMUNITY
ARTS CENTRE
Fri 24 Oct at 7.30pm
1hr, no interval
Image: James Hullick
WORLD PREMIERE
COMPOSED BY JAMES HULLICK