Mungangga Garlagula
Under 18: $20 + $3.50 Booking Fee | + BREC Access
CONTENT WARNINGS: Recommended for audiences 15+ | Haze
A deeply human story of homecoming…
Mungangga Garlagula, (Sitting around the fire at night in Yamatji) is a collaboration in music, sound and story by legendary Indigenous performer Mark Atkins and renowned Australian/Finnish composer and performer Erkki Veltheim.
Audiences are invited to join Mark by the campfire, and to travel with him as he takes us across the border between day and night, dream and reality, the reverberating past and the emerging future.
Together with a company of exceptional Australian musicians who have created a shifting bed of sound for the work, Mark and Erkki lead us into a nocturnal world of memories, echoes, spirits and dreams. Conjuring country through words and breath, the snapping of branches and the play of shadows between the listener by the fire and the impenetrable darkness beyond.
Intimate and epic, playful and piercing, Mungangga Garlagula is an evening of rich story telling and virtuosic didjeridu that restores the experience of listening with the whole body. It draws us together with new attention on a deeply human journey of disorientation, reorientation and homecoming.
Mark Atkins – Co-creator and Director
Acknowledged as one of Australia’s finest didjeridu players, Mark Atkins is also recognised internationally for his collaborative projects with some of the world’s leading composers and musicians. A descendant of Western Australia’s Yamitji people, as well as of Irish/Australian heritage, Mark is known not only for his masterly playing, but also as a storyteller, composer, percussionist, visual artist and instrument maker. Mark has performed alongside and composed with artists such as Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Sinead O’Connor, Philip Glass, Donald Lunney, Ornette Coleman, Peter Sculthorpe, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Gondwana, Jenny Morris, John Williamson, James Morrison, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO). He is a founding member of Black Arm Band.
Erkki Veltheim – Co-creator
Erkki Veltheim is an Australian/Finnish composer and performer. His practice spans noise, audiovisual installation, improvisation, notated music, electroacoustic composition, pop arrangements and cross-disciplinary performance. Erkki has been commissioned by the Adelaide Festival, Vivid Festival, Australian Art Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Musica nova Helsink and composed the orchestral works for celebrated Australian indigenous musician Gurrumul’s posthumous album Djarimirri.
Creative Team
Ruth Little – Dramaturg
Ruth Little is a theatre and dance dramaturg, a teacher and writer. She lectured in English literature at the University of Sydney, was literary manager at Out of Joint, Soho and the Royal Court theatres, and artistic associate at the Young Vic.
Niklas Pajanti – Lighting Designer
Niklas Pajanti is an award-winning lighting designer whose practice ranges across contemporary art forms and performance styles including theatre, dance, opera, circus, musical theatre, comedy, events, exhibitions and public spaces.
Co-creatives and Immersive Soundbed Performers
Genevieve Lacey – Recorders
Vanessa Tomlinson – Percussion
Stephen Magnusson – Guitar
Anthony Pateras – Piano and Analogue Synthesizers
Scott Tinkler – Trumpet
Erkki Veltheim – Violin
Image credit: Kristian Gehradte
The Mungangga Garlagula Tour has been made possible with the support of the Western Australian State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries’ Regional Arts and Cultural Investment Program and the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Mungangga Garlagula was commissioned by Tura with the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia and Ulrike Klein AO.
Tura’s Annual Program is supported by the Australian government through Creative Australia, its arts funding advisory body and the Western Australia State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, in association with Lotterywest.
The performance pf Mungangga Garlagula at BREC is also supported by Alcoa, BREC’s First Nations Program and Audience Develpment Partner.
Tickets & Venue Info
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BREC ACCESS
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