Embark on a musical journey at the World's Smallest Improvised Music Festival, presented in collaboration with the Launceston Improvised Music Association (LIMA).
Join Louise Denson (keyboard) and Karlin Love (clarinet) for an immersive musical journey as they respond to the themes of the exhibition This Vanishing World: Photography of Olegas Truchanas.
QVMAG Senior Curator Jon Addison will introduce each of the four themes, capturing the legacy of Olegas Truchanas. Louise and Karlin, both immigrants with formative island experience, have found deep resonance in Tasmanian places.
Through their evocative music, they will explore Resilience, Artistry, Passion and Impact, creating a profound connection with the places captured by Truchanas' lens.
About the artists
Louise Denson
Pianist, composer and educator Louise Denson is well established on the Australian jazz scene. She has issued 7 CDs, including Clean Start (2003 Queensland Sunnie Award: Best Jazz Recording), Colours of Your Love (2018), which features a 9-piece ensemble with strings, and Nova Nova (2021, 4 stars, Weekend Australian). Her compositions have been performed and recorded by international artists such as Bell Award-winning vocalist Elly Hoyt, L.A.-based jazz fusion group San Gabriel 7, TSO, Viney-Grinberg Duo, Muses Piano Trio and Southern Cross Soloists.
Denson has completed numerous composition commissions and performed at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz, Wimbledon International Music Festival, Melbourne International Women’s Jazz Festival, Brisbane International Jazz Festival, among many other performances. Her compositions are published by the Australian Jazz Realbook (jazz) and Wirripang (classical). She is a Represented Artist at the Australian Music Centre.
www.louisedenson.com
Karlin Love
Karlin Love (B.A., B.Mus., M.A., PhD) is a US-born composer and performer living in Tasmania. She moved to Australia from Seattle in 1989 to take the position of woodwind lecturer at the University of Tasmania in Launceston where she taught clarinet, saxophone, theory, composition and improvisation until 1997, and taught music education (composition, music technology, guitar, and primary curriculum music) through 2010.
Still residing in Launceston, she is a freelance performer, composer, curator, and teacher. Karlin aims to gently extend and expand traditional sound worlds and provoke greater democracy in music-making. She has created and performed works for MOFO, TenDays on the Island, JunctionArts, and other festivals and series. Her works have been recorded by Clarity clarinet quartet, The Chordwainers leather sculpture ensemble, and the University of Tasmania Wind Ensemble.
About LIMA: Launceston Improvised Music Association
Launceston Improvised Music Association was established in 2020 by a group of local musicians to nurture, inspire and educate other musicians and the community in the live music practice of improvisation. All LIMA presentations are original music performances.
LIMA facilitates Free for All, a weekly music improvisation session open to everyone; provides performance opportunities for local and visiting musicians; runs workshops; and in 2024 will present for the third time The World’s Smallest Improvised Music Festival.
QVMAG is delighted to collaborate with LIMA for the 2024 festival, which will connect the city’s art spaces through a program of sound events.
www.limatas.com
About the exhibition
This is the story of a man who loved Tasmania’s wild places.
For twenty years, Olegas Truchanas explored Tasmania's remote South West, with great physical and mental endurance. His photographic skill enabled him to share his personal experiences with others.
Motivated by a love of nature and natural beauty, Olegas Truchanas' legacy is told here in carefully selected images to celebrate his birth just over 100 years ago.
Through the lens of his camera, This Vanishing World shares the journey of Olegas Truchanas and his campaign to expand awareness of Tasmania’s unique and endangered south-west in the 1950-70’s, which helped inspire an ongoing environment protection movement.
This exhibition acknowledges the influence of his work on talented wilderness photographers who continue to represent endangered wild country.
This Vanishing World: Photography of Olegas Truchanas
Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road, Launceston
13 July 2024 — 20 July 2025
Free entry | Open daily | 10am to 4pm