This Sunday afternoon I’m launching my brand new CD ‘In Situ’ at Strange Neighbour gallery in Fitzroy.
‘In Situ’ is composed from turntable manipulations of Todd Anderson-Kunert’s ‘The situation we’re in’ seven inch vinyl. Available in an edition of 30 CD’s, each with an individually hand constructed collaged cover made by Jessica Anderson-Kunert (using visual source material from the same release). Available on the day, or afterwards from http://www.thisisnonlinear.com and Shame File Music.
I’ve written a review of The Instrument Builders Project exhibition at the NGV from last year. You can read it here at Real Time:
More Talk, Less Action
Improvisation: How To Win
Thursday 19 February, 2015 – 7:30pm
West Space, Level 1, 225 Bourke St, Melbourne
$10
Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/348222642011620/
Panellists/performers:
* Lloyd Honeybrook (Make It Up Club, Overground Festival, hate saxophonist)
* Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (experimental vocalist, teacher/workshop facilitator)
* Adam Simmons (Festival of Slow Music, teacher, saxophonist, reeds)
Moderated by Clinton Green.
What is the purpose of improvisation? Traditionally improvisers were supposed to serve the song and the music, but is “free improv” too often a free-for-all, with the loudest and most dominating voice “winning”? What principles should a good improviser be guided by, and what bad habits should they avoid? Audience members may want to share their personal horror stories …
In addition, the panel of sage improvisers will perform Clinton Green’s game piece Good Improv/Bad Improv – this involves individual performers in a group receiving incompatible instructions like “be the loudest” and “follow the person on your left”, designed to explore group dynamics and create hilarity for the audience.
This is last in the current series of More Talk Less Action, and probably the last one for some time.
Adam and Clinton were interviewed about winning at improv on 3RRR – you can hear it here http://www.moretalk.org/preparing-to-win/
Tomorrow I will be on 3RRR‘s Hullaballoo, hosted by Jeff Sparrow, talking about the upcoming More Talk Less Action event Improvisation: how to win. I’ll be joined by Adam Simmons, who will be performing/talking/winning on the night as well. Tune in.
Address Book is an evolving, cumulative online album I began in October 2013. The idea is to assemble 26 collaborative recordings, one for each letter of the alphabet where the letter matches the surname or project name of the collaborator, and progressively work through the alphabet. Recordings have either been existing tracks, or made especially for this project. Collaborators so far have included Ernie Althoff, Sean Baxter, Rod Cooper, Marco Fusinato and many more.
Currently, I am up to ‘S’ is for Scott Sinclair, with a track we recorded in 2002 that ended up on our With Doors Open CD a few years later.
This and the rest of the album are available for free streaming/downloading.
Clinton Green 