I am working as a composer on a brand new Contemporary Opera work, currently in development, by artist Tammy Brennan.
CONFINED is a site-specific research and development project at the old
Alice Springs Gaol. The work has been in progress since 2009. The next developmental showing will take place in the Gaol in June 2012.
Using themes of global power shifts, industrial decline and
economic uncertainty, EG1/EXT will weave together a tribute to the
industrial age and its workers in The Dignity of Labor.
The project will represent the site of Cockatoo Island and the rich
history of its workers through audio and visual technology; a digital
drum kit made of the sounds of the groaning buildings, footage of the
island and its labour force in all of its elements. The work is intended
to highlight the experience of the industrial age, paying homage to its
working class and giving light to the stories that are sometimes buried
deep in Sydney’s past.
EG1/EXT consists of Sydney electronic musicians, cultural
experimenters, and visual specialists who have never worked together
before. Featuring some of Sydney’s best established and emerging
electronic artists, such as as ollo, Bec Paton, Westernsynthetics and
Sofie Loizou, The Dignity of Labour is going to be a beautiful exploration of history and technology.
RADICAL NATURE RECORDS is a brand new Australian
initiative aiming
at breaking the mould of the average record label to create works that focus upon music releases as objects of artistic, musical and aesthetic beauty.
As many record labels move to create their main income stream within
digital downloads, we would like to take a step backwards and, at the same time, forwards, to offer music
as a piece of limited edition art. Something that is so beautifully produced, you would want to hang it on
your wall, as well as play it on your turntable.
Our aim is to ensure the artistic vision survives the culling process
of economic viability. After all not all music is produced entirely with the aim of making money.
This is why we are sure you will appreciate the effort our artists
put into these limited edition releases, ones that could be considered works of art as well as works of
music.
We also support the creative use of our output and encourage our
artists to give away sound samples on Freesound, and for
other like-minded creatives to sample the works in the form of musical quotation.
We believe that music lovers, like art lovers, will find their own
unique method that will help ensure the artist can continue to make new works, be it
philanthropically or through their purchase of the works.
CDR is a unique underground music event that invites producers,
musicians and appreciators of futuristic sounds together to hear
unreleased music on a big soundsystem. All are welcome, but if you are
also a maker of music, then we invite you to be part of this special
CDR Session at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Friday June 5th, 2009 as part of Creative Sydney "Notes from the Underground".
You can expect night of completely new/unreleased
music from local and overseas producers all programmed from what is
brought down on the night. This is a chance for the music makers to
test out their new sounds on a killer system, while the rest of us get
to be the first to check out what our favourite producers are about to
drop on the unsuspecting music world.
CDR is the brainchild of Burnt Progress,
headed by London creative catalyst, Tony Nwachukwu. The Sydney chapter of this worldwide movement began in 2006 by local music
lovers Lorna Clarkson, Mark Pritchard, Simon Hindle and Sofie Loizou. CDR Sydney is growing steadily into a regular meeting space for
underground
music enthusiasts to hear everything from dubstep to techno, folk to
indie and soul to reggae.
TO MAKE YOUR MUSIC PART OF THIS EVENT:
all
you need to do is drop a cdr burn of your unreleased track into the CDR
BOX @ The MCA by 8:30pm, Friday June 5th. Stickers will be provided for
you to write your artist name, track name and contact details.
I first became interested in creating a brain controlled musical instrument after meeting Scott Eggert in late 2007. Scott has extensive experience in this area in the past -- we both imagined that a brain interface like this would be fun and extremely useful as a controller for audio platforms. We then started a plan to create a system that accepts can input information from Pure data to Ableton Live.
If you haven't already, please point your cursor at chasingthetangent.com to subscribe to my
new fandangled podcast website. It's kinda like my old shows but with an emphasis on
uncovering the finest local and international music ranging from electronica to jazz, techno,
disco, dub, ambient, experimental and lots of stuff i don't think has been classified yet.
There's plenty of brand new unreleased music and exclusives from around the world.
Its all good and it's served up as a fortnightly journey via RSS for your listening pleasure.
After that, head over to straightup.com.au where you can find Chasing the Tangent,
and a bunch of other brilliant podcasts to keep your hungry ears satisfied.
A piece I wrote for a theatre performance called "The Gleaners". It was performed on analogue cassette at the CarriageWorks night time #2 program in Sydney, July 2007.
The Shimmer (currently in Prototype 1 phase)is a remotely operated
instrument used for creating
percussive and semi-pitched metallic
shimmering tones and textures using mechanical hammers
that are
capable of rate and depth variation, and a midi controller.
It is also a self contained sound
installation instrument, with the ability
to play without the aid
of a computer, or live human control.
Prototype 2 will also perform as a concert instrument by using microphones
in each
bowl to amplify, alter and create additional
artificial sound worlds.
