Author: cdgsham

Talking sound art and experimental music with Camilla Hannan over the summer

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From this Thursday (24 December, 2015), I will be joining Camilla Hannan on 3RRR-FM each week for a 15 minute conversation about issues of relevance to contemporary sound art and experimental music practice. Camilla is hosting the Smart Arts programme for four weeks over the Christmas/New Year break, each Thursday from 9am – 12pm. I’ll be joining Camilla at about 10:40am each week for our chat.

Our first topic is “New paradigms for sound performance”, focussing on the question of audiences – how to get them/get rid of them, different audience/listening environments, the role of the audience and more.

Tune into 3RRR at 102.7 FM from this Thursday, or stream here.

Upcoming performances/events Jan-Feb 2016

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Tuesday 12 January 2016, 9pm – Make It Up Club, Bar Open, Brunswick St, Fitzroy.

Ren Walters/Clinton Green/Elnaz Sheshgelani

Saturday 23 January 2016, 2pm – Tilde New Music Festival, Testing Grounds, 1 – 23 City Road, Southbank.

I am guest-curating the first two hours of the festival. This will include:

  • performances of new works by The Phonetic Orchestra
  • premiere of a my new work ‘Discretions For Ensemble’, performed by a large ensemble including Sam McAulliffe, Melanie Walters, Chun-liang Liu, Shani Mohini-Holmes, Tully Sumner, Barnaby Oliver, Carmen Chan, Rhys Butler, Jennifer Callaway, David Seedsman and Stephen Roach.

I will also be performing in Carmen Chan’s ‘Do You See What I Hear’ at the festival.

Saturday 13 February 2016, 2pm – Quiet Noise V, 15 Neil Street, West Footscray. Facebook event.

Our annual backyard/house show of unamplified experimental music enters its fifth year. This instalment features sound poet Anna Fern, Aviva Endean, and a trio of Jenny Barnes/Clinton Green/Michael McNab.

Monday 15 February 2016 – La Musica, La Mama – Court House Theatre, Carlton.

I will be performing in Carmen Chan’s ‘Do You See What I Hear’.

Duo with Adam Simmons this Thursday night

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I’m thrilled to be 1% of the guests invited to be part of Adam Simmons’ extraordinary project 100:25:1, that’s been running just about every night at Conduit Arts throughout November. I’ve gotten along as an audience member to a few of these nights, and it’s been something quite special. To briefly sum up the project, Adam is performing 100 duets throughout the month, drawing on Melbourne musicians from different scenes and musical traditions. These interconnections are being mapped throughout the month, that will eventually form the basis of an online database.

Also performing duets on Thursday night  with Adam will be Aviva Endean, Matt Earl, and Simon Lewis.

This will probably be my last Melbourne gig for 2015.

26 November 2015, 8pm – duo with Adam Simmons @ Conduit Arts, 83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Facebook event. Tickets.

Parhelion & Zac Keiller “Farthest North”

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farthest north

Several years ago, guitarist Zac Keiller asked me to contribute some text to an ambient album he was making in collaboration with Parhelion, that sought to invoke the atmospheres of the polar regions. I mined a paragraph from an unpublished short story of mine that seemed relevant (well, my story was set in Antarctica, whereas this album was concerned with the northern polar regions), sent it off to Zac then forgot about the whole thing. The other week, the album arrived in the mail; a handsome digipak with both an audio CD and DVD, with my long-forgotten text nicely featured on the inside panel. The album may have been out for a year or two already. It’s available from Cyclic Law.