The Glass Percussion Project

At Wagga Wagga Art Gallery | Small Grants Program

The Glass Percussion Project has been described as “…a rare and highly skilled merging of inter-disciplinary art forms.” (Brett Littman, Deputy Director of PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, 2007).

The Glass Percussion Project involves a team of artists and musicians and combines solo and ensemble based live percussion with glass sculptures. The installations feature up to 1400 hand blown glass objects in a performance space, and the musical composition stems entirely from the sounds of glass and includes amplified and electronically manipulated live performances utilising major glass art installations. The particular focus is to create and develop new and experimental hybrid-arts collaborative outcomes suited to national and international touring.

The Glass Percussion Project was recently granted $23,000 through the Arts and Humanities Committee to produce a new work, which will include new glass instruments, and the composition of a new musical work. The new work will be performed at The National Glass Centre in Wagga Wagga Art Gallery in April 2009.

Elaine Miles, the creator of the glass instruments, has a background in fine arts, and has had over 70 exhibitions nationally and internationally of solo and collaborative installations.

Eugene Ughetti is a well-known and prolific performer, and is Artistic Director of Speak Percussion. Eugene will compose and perform a new work with the new glass instruments.