29 March 2008
Kalkadungu
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A 23-minute piece scored for orchestra, electric guitar, solo voice and didjeridu, Kalkadungu is based on a song which the master didjeridu player William Barton wrote in his language when he was 15.
The song was inspired by his Kalkadungu country in north-western Queensland.
William Barton says the song itself is about the passing of Kalkadungu culture from one generation to the next.
He joins us to talk about the new composition, co-written with composer Matthew Hindson, which is being performed for the first time by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra next week.
Also we hear Also, the poet Yvette Holt reads from her newly-published anthology 'Anonymous Premonition'. And curator Djon Mundine ruminates out loud on the significance of water and waterways in contemporary Indigenous art.
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Further Information
Kalkadungu
Kalkadungu
composed by William Barton and Matthew Hindson
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
2-3 April 2008
Publications
Title: Anonymous Premonition
Author: Yvette Holt
Publisher: UQP, 2007
URL: http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book_details.php?id=9780702235719
Presenter
Daniel Browning
Producer
Daniel Browning
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