A range of new quality Australian experimental music releases available now.
Solo this Friday night
This Friday I’ll be playing a new work, based around the idea of a musical setting for excerpts from The Iliad.
Four things and more at Cross Street on Friday night, 2 September.
Including:
Trio: Ren Walters, Myfanwy Alderson, Carmen Chan
Solo: Clinton Green
Solo: Michael McNab
Screening: ‘If I am a musical thinker’ (2007) Carmen Chan
+ Dur-é Dara, Ewen
+ on-the-spot collaborations and more…
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Moreland City Band Hall, 16-22 Cross Street, Brunswick East
Entry by donation
BYO alcohol
Improv Idol 2016 entries now open
CALLING ALL IMPROVISERS! Deep down inside, you know you’re the best (chuck out the rest). Come and prove your worth by becoming a contestant in Improv Idol 2016.
We are looking for improvising musicians of any and all backgrounds, experience, and abilities. A sense of fun and adventure will also hold you in good stead.
Get your entries in now. Peruse the competition rules as well.
Entries close at midnight Friday 2 September. The big night is Thursday 29 September at the Wesley Anne in Northcote.
Check out this video of our 2015 contestants, battling it out to impress audiences and judges alike. This could be you!
Upcoming performances and events September/October 2016
Friday 2 September – Four Things And More – solo performance
Moreland City Band Hall, 16-22 Cross Street, Brunswick, Australia. Facebook event.
Tuesday 13 September, 9pm – Rod Cooper Engineering – I am part of a large group playing Cooper’s bespoke instruments. Facebook event.
Make It Up Club, Bar Open (upstairs), 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Australia.
Tuesday 20 September, 9pm – turntable duo/battle with Paul Wain (AKA DJ2 of Antediluvian Rocking Horse)
Make It Up Club, Bar Open (upstairs), 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Australia.
Friday 23 September – solo performance
Audio Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand. Facebook event
Thursday 29 September, 8pm – Improv Idol
Wesley Anne, 250 High Street, Northcote, Australia.
Friday 7 October, 8:30pm – THIS Ensemble
Moreland City Band Hall, 16-22 Cross Street, Brunswick, Australia.
Photos from recent performances
Some photos here by Ernie Althoff of my solo performance at La Musica on 25 July 2016:
And photos here of Moe Chee’s performance at Aeso Studio on 29 July 2016.
THIS Ensemble returns – Fri 5 Aug at Cross Street
Friction – this Friday 29 July at Aeso
Friction – vibrations, sparks, energy. Conflict, ignition, resonance.
Celebrate the release of Taiwanese performing artist, Chun Liang Liu’s debut solo album ‘Friction’ with three performances touching on the theme of friction.
Performances from:
默契 (Moe Chee – Clinton Green & Chun Liang Liu)
This will be the first 默 契 performance in Australia for over a year, and the last for the foreseeable future.
The limited edition of 30 ‘Friction’ CDs in handmade covers will be available on the night (if any are left). Pre-orders available now, and digital version available in August from Shame File Music.
$10 entry / doors at 7pm / performance from 8pm
Aeso (formerly Conduit Arts), 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy.
Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/639473296203240/
Solo set at La Musica @ La Mama
La Musica
Clinton Green (turntables, remote-activated percussion)
Michiko Moriti (piano)
“After moving to Australia, I discovered the joy of composition. People, places and feelings inspire me to paint with sound.” Japanese pianist Michiko Morita is a wonderful musician whose beautiful ‘sound-pictures’ are a joy to hear – as are her modest explanations of her pieces. After a few years break due to injury, we’re thrilled to welcome Michiko back to Musica for a solo set.
Clinton Green joins us for a solo set of turntable-based sounds. He makes something akin to music. Clinton has been active in Australian experimental music since the 1990s as a recording and performing artist, curator, facilitator, writer and researcher. He has worked with unconventional approaches to guitars, turntables and found… objects as tools for new forms of musical expression. He also works with dancers, theatre and performance artists in improvised collaborative situations. For this performance, Clinton will present a multiple turntable and remote-activated percussion spatial piece that will bathe the audience in the microscopic sonic details of shattered vinyl, melted flexidiscs, stressed turntable mechanisms and the secret aural lives of objects.
Monday 25 July 2016, 7:30pm
La Mama, 205 Faraday St, Carlton
Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/1549722482002270/
New on Shame File Music & mailorder
Order the items below and more from http://ShameFileMusic.com
- Chun-liang Liu ‘Friction’ (online/ltd edition CDR) – This debut release from the Taiwanese performing artist is a selection lo-fi recordings Chun-liang makes as she moves through the world in both Australia and Taiwan, a travelogue and soundscape overlaid with vocalisations and song. A very limited edition of 30 beautiful handmade CD covers designed and constructed by Kuan-Chiun Chuang on exquisite French paper stock. Each disc has an individual Chinese character hand-written by Chun-liang. Pre-orders are now available and moving fast, get in quick to secure your copy (shipping late July).
- The Instrument Builders Project ‘Hits From the Gong’ (230 x 300 mm full colour softcover book) – Years in the making, this printed monster of an edition comes in a specially designed cardboard box and features eye popping full colour images and descriptions of The Instrument Builders Project; an Australia/Indonesia collaboration of experimental instrument makers that took place across three editions in Yokgyakarta, Indonesia and Melbourne, Australaia in 2013 and 2014. The book features essays and conversations by Helen Hughes, Antariksa, Wok The Rock, Serena Bentley and Edwina Brennan, and curators Kristi Monfries and Joel Stern. Limited edition of 400.
- Peter Farrar ‘Avocado’ (LP/CD) – Debut solo release from Sydney alto sax monster, who uses plastic bags and bottles as mutes to create an astonishing array of textures. From the extreme vibrating shronk of the title track, to “Light Green” which sounds not unlike a field recording of squawking jungle birdlife, this album is riveting listening. A punk Jim Denley, perhaps? LP is limited to 300 hand-numbered copies, also available on CD.
- Various Artists – ‘All My Sins Remembered: The Sonic Worlds of John Murphy’ (3CD + booklet) John Murphy was at the cutting edge of Australian underground music since the 1970s, and later a key player in the forging of European industrial music. His influence and collaborative reach is extensively documented in this beautiful 3 CD set, spanning 40 years of musical output (from 1975 to 2015, the year of Murphy’s death). The bands and projects here of which Murphy was a member are a veritable roll call of the dark/noise/industrial canon, including NEWS, Whirlywirld, Orchestra of Skin and Bone, SLUB, SPK, Whitehouse, Lustmord, Browning Mummery, KnifeLadder and countless others. The CDs are housed in a lavish full colour cardboard foldout box, which also includes a 32 page booklet with photos and notes by several Murphy collaborators and friends. Limited edition of 750, but only a handful available in Australia.
