MAXed Out PROJECT

In 2008, for the first time, there will be the opportunity for high school aged children (years 7 to 9) to participate. The Moorambilla Youth project known as MAXed Out will give participants the opportunity to work with professional musicians and artists to create a multi-media production using film, photography, percussion, live music and singing. This music will have a more contemporary edge and feel and will give a unique perspective on the festival theme for 2008 – “flight and freedom”.

The project will be premiered at the Moorambilla Festival. 

Residency camp dates      

Regional Youth Choir Camp #1                            16– 20 August 08       

Regional Choir Camp (Girls & Boys & Youth):         17 - 21 September 08

and Moorambilla Festival

What happens at the camps?

The selected participants will meet to create “MAXed Out” through a series of workshops with key artists. “MAXed out” seeks to build on the growing skills of youth in the region with digital technology, and integrate more contemporary musical styles within an art music frame, incorporating live instruments and percussion in performance for the festival. This ensemble will provide the youth with visual arts skills and those with rhythmic and musical skills the opportunity to compose a work collaboratively while in residence at the August camp.

Working with their regional peers and composers Dan Walker and Luke Robinson, festival artistic director Michelle Leonard and local photographer Georgina Lampe they will create a 20 minute work using still digital photography, sampled sounds sequences, vocussion and music composed for mixed ensemble (string quartet, wind instruments).