The Glass Percussion Project will present a small scale live performance utilising a table size glass installation, solo percussion and live electronic manipulation. This brief performance will be given as a representation of the visual and sound based elements that form the potential foundation for large-scale events. Following the live performance, co-directors Elaine Miles and Eugene Ughetti will open the floor up for discussion and will address issues including access to a brief laptop/DVD based presentation of recent works.

The Glass Percussion Project explores Fine Arts based visual installation environments with a dynamic performing arts team of experts. Glass is one of the most unexplored sound materials to date and has immense musical potential because of its highly resonant properties, complexity of overtones and flexibility in terms of physical form and shape. The performances are tailored to a variety of venues including gallery, performance and theatrical spaces and site specific public spaces.

The Glass Percussion Project
The Glass Percussion Project is "...a rare and highly skilled merging of inter-disciplinary art forms" (Brett Littman, Deputy Director of PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York. 2007).

The Glass Percussion Project combines solo and ensemble based live percussion with innovative and immersive installations featuring up to 1000 hand blown glass objects in a surround-sound and lighting environment.. The musical composition stems entirely from the sounds of glass and includes amplified and electronically manipulated live performance. The particular focus is a new experimental music and hybrid-arts collaboration.

The Glass Percussion Project is an initiative directed by installation artist Elaine Miles and percussionist/composer Eugene Ughetti. Elaine creates unique visual and tactile installation environments and Eugene composes and performs within these environments. For large scale projects the highly skilled collaboration includes sound artist Myles Mumford (live electronic manipulation of the sound), Michael Hewes on sound design (sound reinforcement, sound diffusion, recording), Matthias Schack-Arnott percussion and Richard Vabre, Lighting design.

Since its debut performance in December 2006, The Glass Percussion Project has already received wide acclaim. It has been publicised in many of Melbourne's leading print media on radio and in the USA by The New York Times and WPS1 Art Radio. Performances to date have been held at Roulette (Soho, New York), PS1 Art Radio (MOMA affiliate, New York), The Quiet Music Festival (VIC, Australia), The Faculty Gallery of Monash University (VIC, Australia), 2007 Flameworkers Glass Conference at The Creative Glass Center of America (New Jersey, USA) and Conical Gallery (VIC, Australia).

Contact:
Elaine Miles
4/7 Spring Road,
Malvern VIC 3144
Tel + 61 3 9822 5658
Fax + 61 3 9822 5658
Mob 0438090523
elaine.miles@artdes.monash.edu.au
www.speakpercussion.com