Author: cdgsham
Steady State: an evening of spectral harmonies with Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
Clinton Green (bowed metal bowls) and Barnaby Oliver (struck and bowed strings)
Spring (Tim Catlin and Rod Cooper)
Thursday 25 August 2022 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Tempo Rubato
34 Breese St, Brunswick VIC 3056
Barnaby Oliver and Clinton Green use aluminium bowls and strings to create a combination of shifting resonances, coalescing into other-worldly music that at first appears static, yet constantly shifts and re-grounds itself.
Spring features Tim Catlin and Rod Cooper playing their own newly-invented instruments – Vibrissa and Steel Keys.
New compilation track
New track composed and recorded for this themed percussion compilation from Italian label tsss tapes Free Percussion/Water. The compilation also features Ted Byrnes, Jeph Jerman and other exploratory percussionists of note.
I’m also looking forward to releasing a collaborative album with Ian Andrews (Astasie-abasie, Cut With The Kitchen Knife, The Horse He’s Sick, etc) on tsss tapes later this year.
RADIO SPECIAL
On the recent occasion of my 50th birthday, Nat Grant put together this radio special on some of my collaborative work for her Let Your Freak Flag Fly show on 3CR. It features collaborative recordings introduced by Ernie Althoff, Chun-Liang Liu, Paul Kidney and Adam Simmons. It was such a surprise (kept secret from me until the day!) to hear this lovely programme, my thanks to Nat and all my inspiring collaborators everywhere.
New compilation tracks/remixes
Last year I did a number of remixes of material from Buttress O’Kneel’s audiobook mashup album Audiobok. These and remixes by others (including John Jacobs, Robin Fox and Justin Ashworth) have been released in two sets:
The Secret life of objects
LIve at Sunshine art spaces last weekend
First gig for 2022
I’ll be playing my first gig for nearly 12 months, and first solo performance since 2019, on Saturday 26 February 2022. From 7pm at Sunshine Art Spaces, 2 City Place, Sunshine. This is part of Mito Elias’ Nefelibata exhibition. Admission is free, also performing are Jonathan Sinatra and Monty.
Review of “Here?/Secret”
Green mentions a compositional procedure for choice of tape, tape speed and direction and panning, which yields a combination of sounds disturbingly mismatched to eerie perfection, much in the way of a prolonged chance collision…the ordinary is repurposed into a hallucinatory melange of sounds beyond conventional comprehension. It taps into a powerful strand of late 20th Century experimental music, going back to Cage’s collages from the 1950s, that’s occasionally forgotten only to be taken up again a generation later… – Boring Like A Drill
Clinton Green 