Meridian Music presents a performance by Australian percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson. Music for the Banal, the Obvious, the Everyday are a series of manually operated installations of objects, activated by ropes, water, rice, or the more conventional percussive act of striking. Using both site specific found objects and favorite sounds that travel from Australia, Tomlinson's performances are more akin to wind playing a plastic bag, the ocean playing rocks, the cause and affect of what she has playfully termed determined indeterminacy. Tomlinson will present 4 works; Talk to me (for water and floating objects), Spill (by Erik Griswold - for ceramic bowls and 12kgs rice), Ropes (for prepared floor and ropes) and her more percussively orthodox Music for the Banal, the Obvious, the Everyday (for bicycle pumps, bottles, tiles, mixing bowls, wood and sandpaper).

Australian percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson is active in the fields of solo percussion, contemporary chamber music, improvisation and composition. As a soloist she has worked closely with influential European composers Vinko Globokar and Brian Ferneyhough, prominent Australian/American composers Erik Griswold, Liza Lim and Anthony Pateras, and instrument builder Rosemary Joy. She performs frequently with a wide array of contemporary chamber and improvisation ensembles including the Australian Art Orchestra, the Golden Orb, Twitch, Clocked Out Duo and has commissioned many solo and chamber music works. Vanessa studied at University of Adelaide, Hochschule fur musik in Freiburg (with Bernhard Wulff) and University of California, San Diego (with Steven Schick) where she received her DMA in 2000. She has also spent extensive time studying Sichuan Opera Percussion in Chengdu China with Mr. Zhong. Vanessa currently lives in Brisbane where she is Head of Percussion at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, director of Ba Da Boom Percussion, and co-artistic director of Clocked Out.

See photos from the concert.