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Slime Moulds & Mountain Harp will immerse you in a spectacular musical and visual experience of mysterious and beautiful creatures and creations. The planetarium dome will feature Sarah Lloyd’s exquisite macro-and micro-photography of Tasmanian slime moulds in all their remarkable life stages as the music emerges from the extensive colours and effects of Garry Greenwood’s elegant 18-string Tasmanian Mountain Harp. Alien-like, but actually Tasmanian home-grown.

Karlin Love and Suzy Turner will play the Mountain Harp and compatible instruments such as electric violin, clarinet, and gongs.

Slime Moulds & Mountain Harp will immerse you in a spectacular musical and visual experience of mysterious and beautiful creatures and creations. The planetarium dome will feature Sarah Lloyd’s exquisite macro-and micro-photography of Tasmanian slime moulds in all their remarkable life stages as the music emerges from the extensive colours and effects of Garry Greenwood’s elegant 18-string Tasmanian Mountain Harp. Alien-like, but actually Tasmanian home-grown.

Karlin Love and Suzy Turner will play the Mountain Harp and compatible instruments such as electric violin, clarinet, and gongs.

Overview Experience and participate in the fusion of violin and art at the Art Gallery at Royal Park. Welcome to QVMAG's FREE Art + Performance series - where musicians, artists, dancers, and actors respond to and give new life to our exhibitions through performance. Join artist and creative arts therapist Melissa 'Moo' Lubke and violinist Suzanne Turner as they create an improvised performance in response to Sam Jinks || Mortal Reflections at the Art Gallery at Royal Park. Through sound and movement, this event invites you to encounter the artwork, Eternal Return — a large-scale orb-weaving spider, inspired by QVMAG's Natural Science collection and the newest acquisition of the QVMAG collection. You are invited to witness — or gently participate in — Suzanne and Moo's interactions with Eternal Return. Suzanne performs improvised and arranged music for violin, using looping and effects to build a contemplative soundscape shaped by pattern and repetition. Moo responds through movement and drawing — shifting from delicate, web-like marks to expansive drawing strokes as the music guides her gestures. How you can take part: • Drop in anytime — stay for a few minutes or immerse yourself for the full duration • Join through drawing — write a small worry or sketch a spiderling on a note as you sit inspired by the performance • Listen deeply — absorb the interplay of sound and sculpture as the gallery transforms • Follow the music beyond the walls — let it carry you into your own landscapes No bookings are requird for this free drop-in event. Whether you participate actively or simply listen, vou'll be part of a collective performance that blurs the line between audience and artist.

What to expect Step into a living soundscape with the Launceston Improvised Music Association at the Art Gallery at Royal Park Welcome to QVMAG's FREE Art + Performance series - where musicians, dancers, and actors respond to and give new life into our exhibitions through performance. Join the talented musicians of the Launceston Improvised Music Association in a participatory performance in Sam Jinks||Mortal Reflections at the Art Gallery at Royal Park. Providing a range of instruments, visitors are invited to contribute to a continuous weaving of voices and instruments - responding to QUMAG's new acquisition, Eternal Return. Through interacting through sound with the artwork - a large-scale orb-weaving spider, inspired by the QVMAG's Natural Science collection - explore how sound can animate and transform an encounter with this extraordinary creature. How you can take part: • Drop in anytime - stay for a few minutes or immerse yourself for the full duration • Join with your voice - add to the soundscape with simple tones or improvisation • Play an instrument - pick up one provided in the space • Listen deeply — absorb the interplay of sound and sculpture as the gallery transforms • Follow the music beyond the walls — let it carry you into your own landscapes No bookings are requird for this free drop-in event. Whether you participate actively or simply listen, you'll be part of a collective performance that blurs the line between audience and artist.

About the exhibition Step into the imagined world of Sam Jinks, one of Australia's most prominent contemporary sculpural artists. Renowned for his painstakingly crafted figures, Jinks' practice reflects upon deeply felt moments of our lived experience. Imbued with unguarded emotion and raw vulnerability, this unique presentation is one artist's invitation to reflect on the mysteries of: life || death, and all in-between. Sam Jinks // Mortal Reflections

Experience art transformed into experience as musician Suzanne Turner performs ambient soundscapes at the Art Gallery at Royal Park. Three musicians. Three Saturdays. Three hours of live sound in a world of sculpted stillness.

Join us at the Art Gallery at Royal Park for Three Spotlights, a new live performance program staged within the exhibition Sam Jinks || Mortal Reflections.

Across three Saturdays over three months, three acclaimed musicians will respond to Jinks’ hyperreal sculptures in an evolving, multisensory experience of art and sound.

The third in the series features Suzanne Turner on Saturday 11 October, offering lyrical, improvisation-infused violin that moves with sensitivity and grace. Her intuitive phrasing and delicate textures echo the emotional intimacy of Jinks’ sculptural forms, creating a quiet, resonant dialogue between sound, space, and the human condition.

As you move through the space, the live music becomes a living soundtrack — heightening your connection to the works and inviting quiet reflection. You're welcome to sit, stand, draw, write, or simply be. Paper and graphite pencils will be available to encourage your own creative response.

This is a FREE drop-in event at the Art Gallery at Royal Park, with no registration required. Whether you stay for ten minutes or three hours, this is a rare opportunity to experience visual art in dialogue with live music, where the gallery becomes a space for contemplation, emotion and inspiration.

COMMUNITY EVENT, DANCE, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE WE ARE ALL STARDUST...

18 Sep 2025 | 6pm - 6.15pm 19 Sep 2025 | 6pm - 6.15pm 20 Sep 2025 | 6pm - 6.15pm Free Auslan Interpreted, Step-Free Mobility-Access Companion Card info available here Prince's Square Elizabeth + St John St Launceston All Ages Auslan Interpreted

Step into a mind-expanding sonic and visual journey featuring stunning macro/micro photography of Tasmanian slime moulds by Sarah Lloyd, and the otherworldly sounds of Garry Greenwood’s 18-string Tasmanian Mountain Harp, played by Karlin Love and Suzy Turner on Mountain harp, electric violin, and clarinet. This iteration of Sound in Space is scientific, artistic and improvisational mastery.

Step into a mind-expanding sonic and visual journey featuring stunning macro/micro photography of Tasmanian slime moulds by Sarah Lloyd, and the otherworldly sounds of Garry Greenwood’s 18-string Tasmanian Mountain Harp, played by Karlin Love and Suzy Turner on Mountain harp, electric violin, and clarinet. This iteration of Sound in Space is scientific, artistic and improvisational mastery.

Creative Georgetown Summer Concert Series

Where Water Meets

Folk duo Emily Sheppard and Yyan Ng weave acoustic music that echoes the Tasmanian landscape. Their compositions, featuring instruments made of eel-skin, draw from both contemporary folk and chamber influences, creating a soundscape deeply connected to place.

Stray Luxury

Ian Chia and Suzanne Turner craft opulent ambient electronica infused with acoustic piano, violin, and clarinet, underscored by exotic world instruments. Their performances blend neo-romantic scores with atmospheric soundscapes, offering an immersive and globally inspired experience.

A group of Free for All Regulars will present the WSIMF Sunday First Set | Looping Under Water Afterwards join Free for All | music making in the moment, all welcome no experience necessary instruments provided. Suzanne Turner, Spike Mason, Caitlin Street, Sarah Walters, Megan Casey, Juen Van Hand, Di Nailon.

mulaka milaythina (The Hunting Ground) Commissioned for the 2023 Clarence Jazz Festival a work by Nunami Sculthorpe- Green and Louise Denson, (along with a 9 piece chamber jazz ensemble) This performance is a re-mount of this ground breaking and important work exploring the true history of the Lands of the Mumarimina people.

World premiere of Bridge by Louise Denson (Campania), a new work for 6 musicians commemorating Richmond’s bicentennial year, featuring internationally celebrated Tasmanian vocalist Elly Hoyt.

Also featuring mulaka milaythina (Denson/Sculthorpe-Green) for 10 musicians and narrator, telling the story of the Mumirimina people of the Oyster Bay Nation, original inhabitants of the Richmond area.

This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania.

A hands-on experience of turning science ideas into musical compositions.

Music and Conversations about Theoretical Physics and creatures of Cataract Gorge. Suzanne Turner and Emily Sanzaro: Electric Violins Karlin Love and Jon Addison: weird small instruments With ecologist Jesse Lewis and Physicist Jason Dicker

String Theory - “Physics meets music tour" As part of Science Week, String Theory is a science-inspired music program with conversations about creating music based on scientific ideas. In particular, this program explores ideas about string theory from former Tasmanian physicist, Bill Spence in his recent book Everything Is Now.

Electric violinists, Suzanne Turner and Emily Sanzaro play a new piece by composer Karlin Love celebrating Bill's book. Physics teacher, Jason Dicker, and Karlin will discuss the ideas and how Karlin turned them into music.

The program will also include 'Pathway T(w)o' - a collection of duets for unusual small instruments played by Jon Addison and Karlin Love. The program will include projected images from the Gorge, featuring macro-photography by Wendy Miller.

String Theory - “Physics meets music tour" As part of Science Week, String Theory is a science-inspired music program with conversations about creating music based on scientific ideas. In particular, this program explores ideas about string theory from former Tasmanian physicist, Bill Spence in his recent book Everything Is Now.

Electric violinists, Suzanne Turner and Emily Sanzaro play a new piece by composer Karlin Love celebrating Bill's book. Physics teacher, Jason Dicker, and Karlin will discuss the ideas and how Karlin turned them into music.

The program will also include 'Pathway T(w)o' - a collection of duets for unusual small instruments played by Jon Addison and Karlin Love. The program will include projected images from the Gorge, featuring macro-photography by Wendy Miller.

BEACH PROJECT Part 2 | Field recordings from Nine Mile Beach on Tasmania’s East Coast. Rhythms and melodic themes inspired by bird calls, sounds from the sea, occasional interjections from the 4 legged research and meditation companions. VIOLINS + RECORDINGS + LOOPING

The Ross Arts Festival group present Symphonies for Summer performed by Camerata Obscura, the Tasmanian Camerata, directed by Christopher Bearman OAM. The program will feature Symphony No 49 in F minor by Franz Joseph Haydn and Symphony No 29 in A major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Be part of the live studio audience as we record the newly commissioned work mulaka milaythina (the Hunting Ground), by Nunami Sculthorpe Green ( spoken word), Louise Denson (composer and piano) and an eight piece chamber-jazz ensemble.