BUILDaBEAT, Tetrafide's new school show, is fun creative and energetic. From detailed choreographed routines to mobile drums and Latin instruments, the BUILDaBEAT program is designed to be highly involving and accessible to audiences to the point where the students become an integral part of the music.

BUILDaBEAT demonstrates a range of instruments, beginning with body and vocal percussion, garbage and household items, through to traditional and world percussion instruments. One of the aims of BUILDaBEAT is to demonstrate simple instruments and concepts that are accessible to students of differing musical capabilities. The end result is that both teachers and students are exposed to ideas that can be used long after BUILDaBEAT is over.

If requested, the concert can be followed by a one-hour workshop, led by Genevieve Wilkins, lecturer at the University of Western Australia's School of Music. The end result of the workshop is a unique compositional exercise where the students create their own body percussion piece.

The performance is an awesome display of some of Australia's finest musicians, showing their high level of skill and musicianship in an educational and fun way.

Members of Tetrafide Percussion are graduates of both the West Australian Conservatorium of Music and the University of Western Australia. They all have extensive performance experience with many varied groups, including the West Australian Symphony, ECHO, and Nova Ensemble. They are also employed as classroom and instrumental music teachers at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Tetrafide have delivered BUILDaBEAT performances and workshops at government and independent schools throughout Western Australia and have led curriculum framework related workshops for the West Australian Education Department program, "ArtsEdge". They have appeared at regional and metropolitan new music and community festivals; recorded with the ABC; and perform extensively in many venues and forums in Western Australia.

This page (and more information locally) from Sharon Canavar at the Harrogate International Festival.

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