1424 October 2019
Thomas Meadowcroft So Long Country
From the 1424 October, composer Thomas Meadowcroft developed a new work entitled So Long Country, featuring Speak Percussion and the Malaysian master of traditional Kelantan instruments, Kamrul Hussin.
With contrasting playing traditions and an eclectic collection of instruments, the musicians assembled their collective memory to make songs from an imaginary place in the future, formed by rising sea levels. Part satire, part fantasy, part farewell, So Long Country brings forth an imagined future and makes valuable comment on current globalised music-making practices.
This residency was made possible by a partnership between UKARIA and the Australia Council for the Arts.

Andrew Schulz Dark Well
Composer Andrew Schulz developed Dark Well, an immersive site-specific composition of about 90 minutes for two pianos, visual and audio projections and lighting design. The work consists of a music score which will be performed live with some pre-recorded sounds, amplification and various extensions to normal performance technique. The work is intended for staging in a dark space such as a quarry, silo, water tank, mine shaft, or a cave.
This residency was made possible by a partnership between UKARIA and the Australia Council for the Arts.

1825 February 2019
Archie Roach and Paul Grabowsky Tell Me Why

Indigenous singer/songwriter Archie Roach and jazz pianist Paul Grabowsky were in residence at UKARIA in February 2019, developing a new album to coincide with the release of Archie's memoir Tell Me Why an idea that resulted from a conversation after their sold out concert at UKARIA in November 2018.
LEAVING A MEMORY BY DYLAN HENDERSON
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FRIDAY DECEMBER 14 SATURDAY DECEMBER 22 2018
ANNA GOLDSWORTHY
Pianist and writer Anna Goldsworthy develops her first novel in the artist's studio at UKARIA Cultural Centre.
"A series of stories, constructed loosely on the form of variations. The theme of this book is the rites of passage of a woman's life; the variants take the form of time and circumstance. These interconnected stories chart the seven ages of Ruby, an Australian woman, based on stories my grandmother told me. The final work is at once epic in scale spanning nearly nine decades of a woman's life but constructed as a mosaic. Central to it is a portrait of a marriage, and through this the stories examine the trauma of war."
Anna Goldsworthy
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59 NOVEMBER 2018
NICK WALES KINETIC WONDERLAND
From 59 November, award winning Australian musician and composer Nick Wales was in residence at UKARIA. The residency marked the first stage in the creative development of a new work entitled Kinetic Wonderland a collaboration with Japanese kinetic sculptor artist Shun Ito. Their shared vision is to create a space of beauty, peace and wonder through music and visual art with immersion into the vibrations of the natural world.
Both artists use technology in organic ways. The music of Nick Wales incorporates the organics of acoustic instruments interwoven with digital manipulation and electronics. Shun Ito's metallic sculptural work is similarly based in technical precision, creating organic forms that move in space to reflect the complexity and beauty of nature.
Shun Ito travelled from Japan to join Nick Wales for the residency, which also included musicians Bree van Reyk (percussion), Veronique Serret (violin), Jess Green (voice and electric guitar), Alyx Dennison (voice and keys), and designers Bob Scott (sound design), Tony Assness (theatre design) and Damien Cooper (lighting design). Kinetic Wonderland is produced by Virginia Hyam and Julianne Pierce from creative producing company Art Engineers.
Key creative personnel in residence at UKARIA:
Nick Wales | composer
Shun Ito | kinetic sculptor
Bree van Reyk | percussion
Veronique Serret | violin
Jess Green | voice / electric guitar
Alyx Dennison | voice / keys
Bob Scott | sound design
Tony Assness | theatre design
Damien Cooper | lighting design
Virginia Hyam | producer
Julianne Pierce | producer
This was the final residency for 2018 as part of a partnership between UKARIA and the Australia Council for the Arts.
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OCTOBER 2018
PAUL KELLY, JAMES LEDGER, ALICE KEATH AND THE SERAPHIM TRIO
THIRTEEN WAYS TO LOOK AT BIRDS
Birds have fascinated poets for centuries, not just for their song and flight but as symbols: of hope, freedom, love, communication, peace, luck good and bad, and migration. And what better way to honour them than by sending songs out into the air?
In a new song cycle commissioned by the 2019 Adelaide Festival from an idea by Anna Goldsworthy, Australian music legend Paul Kelly and leading Australian composer James Ledger have written thirteen new songs and soundscapes inspired by birds. Using the words of John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Judith Wright, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gwen Harwood, A.D. Hope and others, each poem is its own world delicate and intimate at times, colossal and soaring at others, with all states in between.
Paul Kelly and James Ledger will be joined by celebrated piano trio Seraphim (Anna Goldsworthy piano, Helen Ayres violin and Tim Nankervis cello) and singer-songwriter Alice Keath to create a unique marriage of electronics, acoustic instruments and the human voice, celebrating winged creatures from the barn owl to the nightingale, from the thornbill to the falcon, from the magpie to the swan.
The final creative development of this project was held at UKARIA in October 2018.
Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds will premiere at the Adelaide Town Hall on Friday 1 and Saturday 2nd March 2019.
JAMES LEDGER ON THIRTEEN WAYS TO LOOK AT BIRDS LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE
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SEPTEMBER 2018
GORDON HAMILTON AND TOM THUM
Queensland-based composer and conductor Gordon Hamilton and international beatboxing sensation Tom Thum developed new works that will be premiered in upcoming performances in Cologne, Germany.
You can see a little bit of what they produced in this video of their new work Rosella Resurrection aptly named after a parrot flew into the glass window while they were thinking of a name.
This was the first residency as part of a partnership between UKARIA and the Australia Council for the Arts.

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1113 JULY 2018
QUARTET AND COUNTRY
A commissioning initiative between UKARIA, the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival and the Australian String Quartet.
Key creative personnel in residence at the UKARIA Cultural Centre:
Ursula Yovich Indigenous Composer / Performer
Djakapurra Munyarryun Indigenous Composer / Performer
Iain Grandage Collaborator on compositional elements
Australian String Quartet Performers
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Supported by UKARIA, Ulrike Klein AO, and the Klein Family Foundation.
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59 FEBRUARY 2018
SYZYGY ENSEMBLE, THE SONG COMPANY AND DR KATY ABBOTT
HIDDEN THOUGHTS
Hidden Thoughts is a daring new work by Dr Katy Abbott. Based on the anonymous confessions of 200 women and featuring live audience participation, the work is in its final stage of collaborative development.
Composed for The Song Company and Syzygy Ensemble, two of Australia's leading ensembles, Hidden Thoughts is a 60-minute work based upon responses to an online survey devised by Dr Abbott and author Kaz Cooke, consisting of a series of questions intended to uncover the most intimately held thoughts of the women that took part.
Concert audiences will be surveyed in the same manner and their responses integrated into each performance, and it is for the purpose of this integration that Dr Abbott, director Thomas de Mallet Burgess and the musicians of Syzygy Ensemble and The Song Company will travel to UKARIA Cultural Centre for a creative development residency, from 59 February 2018.
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SATURDAY 27 JANUARY SUNDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2018
MUSICA VIVA AUSTRALIA
FUTUREMAKERS 20182019
Pianist Aura Go and percussive artist Matthias Schack-Arnott, Musica Viva's FutureMakers 2018-19 artists, were joined by the initiative's leadership team and mentors for a nine-day residency at UKARIA.
This residency began the fellows time in FutureMakers and was focused on capacity building and artistic leadership mentorship for them. Under the direction of Genevieve Lacey, theatre director Naomi Edwards, innovation and strategy director Lynette Nixon, independent producer Michaela Coventry and leadership expert Chris Kotur worked closely with the participants to guide their creative business skills and artistic development as they commenced their time in the initiative. The residency allowed the FutureMakers artists to work intensively on future musical and business plans, including time to begin shaping the music-centred performances projects they will develop over the two years of their involvement. Professor Margaret Barrett and Karlin Love from The University of Queensland was also at the residency continuing their interviews and research on FutureMakers, the outcomes of which will be featured in forthcoming publications on radical education programs.
Following the UKARIA residency, the full details of the FutureMakers 201819 activity and the two inspiring emerging leaders involved over these two years was announced.
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2017
20 NOVEMBER 1 DECEMBER 2017
ANNA GOLDSWORTHY
Pianist and writer Anna Goldsworthy develops her first novel in the artist's studio at UKARIA Cultural Centre.
"A series of stories, constructed loosely on the form of variations. The theme of this book is the rites of passage of a woman's life; the variants take the form of time and circumstance. These interconnected stories chart the seven ages of Ruby, an Australian woman, based on stories my grandmother told me. The final work is at once epic in scale spanning nearly nine decades of a woman's life but constructed as a mosaic. Central to it is a portrait of a marriage, and through this the stories examine the trauma of war."
Anna Goldsworthy
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711 AUGUST 2017
QUARTET AND COUNTRY
A commissioning initiative between UKARIA, the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival and the Australian String Quartet.
Key creative personnel in residence at the UKARIA Cultural Centre:
Stephen Pigram Indigenous Composer / Performer
Lou Bennett Indigenous Composer / Performer
Iain Grandage Collaborator on compositional elements
Australian String Quartet Performers
This project was generously supported by the UKARIA Foundation.
PROJECT OVERVIEW
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2023 FEBRUARY 2017
heard this and thought of you
Creative Development Workshop
The artists in residence intend to turn an internationally acclaimed recording project into a full-length piece of live, music-centred theatre. Taking existing music (contemporary Australian works written for them, as well as old music that they've reimagined), and texts written in response to their performances, from writers such as Helen Garner, Michael Leunig, Chloe Hooper, Luke Davies, Jana Wendt, John Clarke, Robert Dessaix and Scott Rankin, they will create a theatrical performance with music at its heart.
Key creative personnel in residence at the UKARIA Cultural Centre:
Genevieve Lacey recorder
James Crabb classical accordion
Andy Packer director
Michaela Coventry producer
Katherine Tonkin actor
Geoff Cobham designer
Andy Ellis videographer
PROJECT OVERVIEW
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25 JANUARY 3 FEBRUARY 2017
Arcadia Winds with the Australian String Quartet
The inaugural Musica Viva FutureMakers ensemble Arcadia Winds spent a week at UKARIA rehearsing with the Australian String Quartet for upcoming performances in the 2017 Perth International Arts Festival.
Key creative personnel in residence at the UKARIA Cultural Centre:
Genevieve Lacey Artistic Director
Kiran Phatak flute
David Reichelt oboe
Lloyd Vant Hoff clarinet
Rachel Shaw horn
Matthew Kneale bassoon
Dale Barltrop violin
Francesca Hiew violin
Stephen King viola
Sharon Draper cello
Stephen Newton double bass
Lachlan Skipworth composer
PROJECT OVERVIEW
ARCADIA WINDS WITH THE AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET GALLERY
ARCADIA WINDS WITH THE ASQ - A RESIDENCY
To watch a video of Arcadia Winds reflecting on their experiences as the first FutureMakers upon competing the two-year fellowship, click here.
2016
6 11 JULY 2016
Quartet and Country a commissioning initiative between UKARIA, the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival and the Australian String Quartet.
Key creative personnel in residence at the UKARIA Cultural Centre:
Deborah Cheetham AO Indigenous Composer / Performer
William Barton Indigenous Composer / Performer
Iain Grandage Collaborator on compositional elements
Jessie Lloyd Mentored composer
Eric Murrawuy Mentored composer
Australian String Quartet Performers
PROJECT OVERVIEW
This project is generously supported by the Klein Family Foundation.
QUARTET AND COUNTRY GALLERY