Creatives
Co-Creator, Director, Didjeridu & Voice
Mark Atkins
Co-Creator, Viola & Electronics
Erkki Veltheim
Co-Creatives / Immersive Soundbed Recorded Performers
Genevieve Lacey (recorders), Stephen Magnusson (guitar), Anthony Pateras (piano and analogue synthesizers), Scot Tinkler (trumpet), Vanessa Tomlinson (percussion) and Erkki Veltheim (violin)
Dramaturg
Ruth Little
Lighting Designer
Niklas Pajanti
Set & Costume Design
Emily Barrie
Presentation History
August 2025
State Theatre Centre of Western Australia
Aprl 2025
Canberra International Music Festival
2024
Regional West Australian Tour
Supporters
Mungangga Garlagula was commissioned by Tura with the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia and Ulrike Klein AO. Further development was supported by Ukaria Arts Centre and Finding Our Voice Festival. Regional WA touring was supported by the Western Australian State Government and the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia.
Mungangga Garlagula
A collaboration by legendary Indigenous performer, Mark Atkins and renowned Australian/Finnish composer and performer, Erkki Veltheim.
Freya is working with Tura to develop opportunties for future presentations of Mungangga Garlagula.
Mungangga Garlagula (Wajarri for ‘yarning by the fire’) is a collaboration in music, sound and story. Intimate and epic, playful and piercing, Mungangga Garlagula invites audiences to join Mark by the "campfire", and travel with him across the border between day and night, dream and reality, the reverberating past and an emerging future.
For many thousands of years, music, song and story have been transmitted intimately, through close sensory connection; their origins lie in oral culture, in gathering together to be transported. Mungangga Garlagula’s recorded audio, live foley accompaniment and stunning instrumental passages inform and respond to Mark’s voice, breath and body; its artists are in responsive dialogue throughout, an their collaboration produces an entirely unique body of sound.
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.
Mungangga Garlagula is a project of Tura.
Creatives
Co-Creator, Director, Didjeridu & Voice
Mark Atkins
Co-Creator, Viola & Electronics
Erkki Veltheim
Co-Creatives / Immersive Soundbed Recorded Performers
Genevieve Lacey (recorders), Stephen Magnusson (guitar), Anthony Pateras (piano and analogue synthesizers), Scot Tinkler (trumpet), Vanessa Tomlinson (percussion) and Erkki Veltheim (violin)
Dramaturg
Ruth Little
Lighting Designer
Niklas Pajanti
Set & Costume Design
Emily Barrie
Presentation History
August 2025
State Theatre Centre of Western Australia
Aprl 2025
Canberra International Music Festival
2024
Regional West Australian Tour
Supporters
Mungangga Garlagula was commissioned by Tura with the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia and Ulrike Klein AO. Further development was supported by Ukaria Arts Centre and Finding Our Voice Festival. Regional WA touring was supported by the Western Australian State Government and the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia.