Josh Hogan

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Recent Artistic credits include a 2009 Asialink artist-in-residence at Darpana Academy in Ahmedabad, India, where he composed and directed the music for the dance-theatre show Naada, premiered at the 2009 Vikram Sarabhai Arts Festival. He created and produced the show <insert space here…> in collaboration with world-renowned Swiss improviser Fritz Hauser, and co-wrote with didgeridoo player William Barton the show Songlines for the 2005 Ravello Chamber Music Festival in Italy. He has written multiple commissions for Tetrafide Percussion, including Beasts of Reason for Percussion Quartet and processing (2007), as well as composing all the music for the show Spice: The Rhythms of India, a featured act at the 2010 Fairbridge Festival involving traditional Indian musicians and dancers. He was also the recipient of a 12-month residential scholarship to the Italian Communications Research Centre, Fabrica, in 2005.

 As a performer he has had a diverse career which brings together the percussive elements of 'musics of the world' with his own deep sense of style. Along with Steve Richter, he forms one half of the percussion duo Taal Naan, and has composed, recorded and mixed for their debut CD production, Rhythm Bred. In 2009, as part of Taal Naan, he also created a show of original percussion music in collaboration with 2 of Australia's finest Artist-Percussionists, Greg Sheehan and Michael Askill. He is a past member of Tetrafide Percussion, who across the last 14 years have performed to well over one hundred thousand people across the globe. He was a featured soloist with the 2005 Brisbane Biennial festival of Music Production Credo, a position that led to a 12 month residential scholarship at Fabrica, the Benetton Communications and Arts Research Institution in Treviso, Italy. During his time there he collaborated with Didgeridoo Artist William Barton on the Songlines project as well as Credo (2005 Brisbane Biennial Festival of Music), and produced a recording with Melbourne based Pianist Gemma Turvey. Along with Turvey he forms the duo Akin, for whom he has also produced a number of original recordings, including the soundtrack to the short film Voyeurnet, directed by Stuart Parkyn.

'His exploration of the interaction of world percussion and contemporary music technology is second to none.'
David Pye, Composer and Artistic Director of the Nova Ensemble

'Primarily percussive, inventive and globally-inclined, Hogan and Richter are a playful Australian duo whose vast instrumental array includes the studio itself'
Doug Spencer, ABC Radio National

Performance History/Creative Collaborators (selected groups/artists):

Taal Naan, Tetrafide Percussion, WA Symphony Orchestra, Tetrafide Percussion, Michael Askill, Greg Sheehan, Pi, Nova Ensemble, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, TaikOz, WA Ballet, Gavin Bryars, William Barton, Fritz Hauser, Steve Schick, Mukti, David Hyams and the Miles to Go Band, Cathie Travers, Clocked Out Duo, Credo: The Innocence of God, Buzz Dance Theatre, Darpana Institute India, Tura New Music.

Selected Festivals:

Woodford Folk Festival, Brisbane Biennial Festival of Music, Vikram Sarabhai Arts Festival, Perth International Arts Festival, Fairbridge Festival, Centenary of Federation, Totally Huge New Music Festival, Australia Day Celebrations Manila 2008, Tura Sounds Outback.