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What's going on in the world of music and the arts? From the concert hall to the cinema, we talk to musicians, composers, choreographers, dancers, actors, directors and artists - Upbeat finds out what makes them tick.
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The meaning and importance of water:
“Wai | Water | Woda” is a musical exploration of the meaning and importance of water to humanity. Flutists Tessa Brinckman and Adrianna Lis will perform music for multiple flutes and electronics by creative collaborator extraordinaire Jeremy Mayall, alongside pieces by Ben Hoadley, Randall Woolf and Finnish composer Tuukka Jokilehto.
Kiwi flautist to be sent on a mission to Honduras:
Dame Malvina Foundation Arts Excellence award-winner flautist Hannah Darroch has been selected from hundreds of applicants worldwide to be one of just 35 members of the 2018 Global Leaders Program, empowering a rising generation of change-makers in music. The participants are tutored by the likes of Katie Wyatt, Executive Director of El Sistema USA and Gustavo Dudamel protégée Juan Felipe Molano, conductor of the Youth Orchestra of LA, and will be sent on a mission to Honduras.
Salina Fisher on an upward spiral:
At just 23 Wellington composer Salina Fisher has taken the SOUNZ Contemporary Award at the Silver Scrolls for the second year in a row. Her winning work, Tōrino for string quartet is based on transcriptions of Taonga Puoro player Rob Thorne.
Charlotte Wilson caught up with Salina Fisher the day after the Silver Scrolls
Discovering a clip of Rob on Youtube Salina was mesmerized by all the powerful and haunting voices that Rob could conjure from the pūtōrino, an instrument which has the unique ability to function as both a ‘trumpet' and a ‘flute'. It was the most deeply moving listening experience in her recent memory. So she tracked Rob down and they began improvising together - him on the pūtōrino and her on violin.
In these explorations Salina found the pūtōrino and violin shared breathy, human voice-like qualities. In her music she sought to capture the haunting voices she heard Rob pull out of the pūtōrino – the deep mournful kōkiri o te tane (male voice), the eerie, more agile waiata o te hine (female voice) and other more elusive voices. Tōrino is Salina’s musical response to Rob’s playing.
The pūtōrino embodies Hine Raukatauri, goddess of music and its shape is based on the New Zealand case moth cocoon - hence the name Salina chose for her work - Torino, ‘spiral’.
Tōrino was covered by the band Kahu at the Silver Scroll Awards in Dunedin last week.
From: http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/upbeat/20171005