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The Birds Conference
Elnaz Sheshgelani’s play “The Birds Conference” premiered as part of La Mama Theatre’s Explorations series for a brief run of three nights in November 2014. For one night only at Conduit Arts, Sheshgelani is rejoined by Clinton Green & Shani Mohini-Holmes to revive their creative partnership in the world of the birds, presenting several episodes of the play in an intimate setting, with lighting design by Simon Fisher.
Opening proceedings on the night will be:
– Shani Mohini-Holmes/Adrian Sherriff duo
– Clinton Green (solo)
Friday 22 May, 2015 – 8pm
Conduit Arts, 83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Entry: $10
The full production of the play will return to La Mama for a longer season later in 2015.
End of April. Beginning of May – notes, photos, etc.
Last week, my duo with Chun-liang Liu “Moe Chee” completed a major public space performance project over seven consecutive days. Notes and photos are here at the Moe Chee website, more photos and video will appear in future.
‘Address Book’ online culminative album – ‘W’ is for Richard Wixner
Spill 3 compilation CD now online
Released in 1995, this collection featured the Undecisive God track “Secrets”.
End of April. Beginning of May – 默契 (Moe Chee)
Sunday 3 May is the beginning of a big project Chun-liang Liu and I (Moe Chee) have been planning since last year. End of April Beginning of May consists of 7 performances over 7 consecutive days, undertaken without permission at a public space in Melbourne CBD. We will perform at different times of the day (dawn, lunchtime, evening, the middle of the night), with different guest artists on most days.
Our schedule:
– Sunday 3 May, 3pm – 默契
– Monday 4 May, dawn – 默契 with Carmen Chan
– Tuesday 5 May, 9am – 默契
– Wednesday 6 May, 12pm – 默契 with Ren Walters
– Thursday 7 May, 3am (Friday morning) -默契 with Gabriela Green
– Friday 8 May, 11pm – 默契 with Jennifer Callaway
– Saturday 9 May, 4pm-sunset – 默契 with Shani Holmes, and picnic for guest artists and audience.
Venue: State Library of Victoria forecourt and surrounds.
All performances are free. Chun-liang and I are also recording our expectations and experiences on this page.
New on Shame File Music mailorder
Tim Catlin & Machinefabriek “Whorls” LP The third edition of this wonderful collaboration between Australian sound artist Catlin and the prolific Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt) continues their practice of Catlin providing source materials for Zuydervelt to deftly weave into delicate ambient episodes. For this LP, Catlin expands his palette beyond guitar to include bowed piano metals, vibrassa (Catlin’s bowed metal rods) and zither.
Ernie Althoff “Skitter” CD A new set of Althoff’s percussive machines in various combinations, setting bamboo, corrugated cardboard, metal screws, ping pong balls and more against each other. Powered by turntables, cassette recorders and other small motors, these materials are close-mic’d to create the complex yet subtle rhythms and exquisite sonic textures that Althoff has made his own.
Clinton Green 