Student Activities 

Music off the Canvas - Young Composers Project
A partnership program in conjunction with the Ian Potter Mueum of Art

Composition project for students to develop musical compositions in response to
The drowned world: Jon Cattapan, works and collaborations a survey exhbition of work by this leading
contemporary artist. There will be an evening performance of selected compositions on Friday 14 July in the
exhibition.

Students will work with Melbourne composer Stuart Greenbaum on this innovative project.

students must attend 4 workshops and 1 concert

Workshop 1 - Friday 26 May at the Potter - to view the exhibition and get ideas

Workshop 2 - Wednesday 31 May - first sketches and ideas discussed with Stuart Greenbaum

Workshop 3 - Wednesday 14 June - further developed compositions presented and discussed

Workshop 4 - Wednesday 5 July - final editions made to compositions

Performance - Friday 14 July at 6.30pm at the Potter

aMuse president Sonny Chua had this to say about the 2005 program.

‘Many things in life can spark the impetus to make art, including the process of art making itself. Humans create in response to one another and to get a reaction from each other. This may be to glorify, to mock or to playfully tease. People create because they need to express their point of view. People create music because whatever they want to say cannot be expressed as fully in any other way.

Using visual art as inspiration for musical composition, composers have produced countless great works, some of which even surpass the original source in their profundity and beauty. However, art cannot be compared for many reasons as the voice of each work speaks for a different reason and for a different purpose.

Using the provocative exhibition, The difference between you and me, the Music off the Canvas project at the Potter was a wonderful experiment for music students and their teachers to explore, reflect and create. It was an invigorating and successful partnership program initiated this year by Henry Gaughan from the Ian Potter Museum of Art (University of Melbourne). In the 2005 project, Melbourne composer Stuart Greenbaum was the mentor, introducing and considering with the students the fundamental approaches in creating a satisfying musical work. For some, this might have been the beginning of their exploration into the infinite possibilities of composing. Hopefully for all, this event was a stimulating experience, fascinating and inspiring the students to keep exploring the joyous and challenging act of making art and of making beauty.’

Vist the Ian Potter Museum of Art website

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The drowned world: Jon Cattapan, works and collaborations
13 May 2006 to 06 Aug 2006
Curator: Dr Chris McAuliffe
This is a major survey of the work of Melbourne-based artist Jon Cattapan. Cattapan’s practice has reflected and contributed to developments and themes of contemporary Australian art practice such as cultural identity, urbanism, the use of hybrid media and collaboration. Since the 1970s Cattapan has pursued ideas relating to the city, spectatorship, disasters, cinema and digital culture, and boarders and boundaries. With a thematic rather than a chronological focus, 'The drowned world' will include a selection of paintings and works on paper that show the development of Cattapan’s practice over the last three decades, with particular attention given to his collaborative projects. A catalogue accompanying the exhibition will include new writing by Dr Chris McAuliffe, director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art and curator of the exhibition.

DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FORM (PDF)

 Events