Mungangga Garlagula
State Theatre Centre of WA
7:30pm, Monday 11 August 2025
Presented by Tura
Program
Mungangga Garlagula (70 Minutes)
Co-Created and Performed by Mark Atkins and Erkki Veltheim
Mungangga Garlagula is a collaboration in music, sound and story by legendary musicians and improvisers Mark Atkins and Erkki Veltheim. Audiences are invited to join Mark by the campfire, and to travel with him as he takes us across the border between day and night, dream and reality, the reverberating past and the emerging future.
Together with a company of exceptional Australian musicians who have created a shifting bed of sound for the work, Mark and Erkki lead us into a nocturnal world of memories, echoes, spirits and dreams, conjuring country through words and breath, the snapping of branches and the play of shadows between the listener by the fire and the impenetrable darkness beyond.
Intimate and epic, playful and piercing, Mungangga Garlagula restores the experience of listening with the whole body. It draws us together with new attention on a deeply human journey of disorientation, reorientation and homecoming.
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Mon, 11 Aug, 2025 7:30pm |
Mungangga Garlagula $35-50 Adult, $25-40 Concession, $15-30 Students, $35-50 Groups 10+, $20 School Groups 12+ |
Perth Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA |
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Mungangga Garlagula | Co Created and Performed by Mark Atkins and Erkki Veltheim
Mark Atkins | Co-creator and Director
"Mungangga Garlagula has been a journey I have wanted to travel for so long and it’s been an absolute pleasure to work with Erkki and the creatives to nurture this into being." - Mark Atkins
Acknowledged as one of Australia’s finest didjeridu players, Mark Atkins is also recognised internationally for his collaborative projects with some of the world’s leading composers and musicians. A descendant of Western Australia’s Yamitji people, as well as of Irish/Australian heritage, Mark is known not only for his masterly playing, but also as a storyteller, composer, percussionist, visual artist and instrument maker. Mark has performed alongside and composed with artists such as Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Sinead O’Connor, Philip Glass, Donald Lunney, Ornette Coleman, Peter Sculthorpe, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Gondwana, Jenny Morris, John Williamson, James Morrison, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO). He is a founding member of Black Arm Band.
Erkki Veltheim | Co-creator
"Mungangga Garlagula transports audiences to a world where dreams and reality merge, and the everyday coexists with the mythological.” - Erkki Veltheim
Erkki Veltheim is an Australian/Finnish composer and performer. His practice spans noise, audiovisual installation, improvisation, notated music, electroacoustic composition, pop arrangements and cross-disciplinary performance. Erkki has been commissioned by the Adelaide Festival, Vivid Festival, Australian Art Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Musica nova Helsink and composed the orchestral works for celebrated Australian indigenous musician Gurrumul's posthumous album Djarimirri.
Creative Team
Mark Atkins
Co-creator and Director
Erkki Veltheim
Co-creator
Ruth Little
Dramaturge
Niklas Pajanti
Lighting Design
Emily Barrie
Design
Tos Mahoney
Executive Producer
Soundbed Performers (Recorded)
Genevieve Lacey
Recorders
Vanessa Tomlinson
Percussion
Stephen Magnusson
Guitar
Anthony Pateras
Piano and analogue synthesizers
Scott Tinkler
Trumpet
Erkki Veltheim
Violin
Tour Production
Mark Haslam
Production Manager
Guy Smith
Audio Engineer and Production Management
Tristen Parr
Technical Producer
Mungangga Garlagula is supported by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Mungangga Garlagula images by Kristian Gehradte.
Tura acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and create. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. With solidarity and friendship we say thank you.
