In his second program as Artistic Director of the Canberra International Music Festival, Eugene Ughetti presents a lineup rich in site-specific bell works, from his own Bell Curve at Parliament House and Thomas Laue’s Bell Plains at the National Carillon to Aaron Wyatt’s decolonising reinterpretation. Jansson J. Antmann speaks to all three composers about creating music in dialogue with place, history and community.

A performance of Eugene Ughetti’s Bell Curve for Speak Percussion. Photo © Jody Haines

When the Canberra International Music Festival opens this year, it will inaugurate the first phase of a long-term artistic undertaking for its Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti, the founder of Melbourne ensemble Speak Percussion. His work Bell Curve, composed for Victoria’s Federation Handbells, is set...