Tilde New Music festival – Saturday 23 January 2016

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The Tilde New Music Festival runs from Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 January 2016 with a variety of composers and artists presenting contemporary music and sound art. I will be involved in several different performances taking place during the Saturday programme at Testing Grounds in Southbank:

  • I have been invited to guest curate the first two hours of the festival (2-4pm). For this, I have invited The Phonetic Orchestra to perform several new works composed by members of the group.
  • The second half of my curated two hours will be the premiere of a new work composed by myself called Discretions For Ensemble. This is a mutli-layered, complex structure for a large group of improvisers that extends from framework of 30 short improvisations tt Barnaby Oliver and I designed for the launch of our Discretions album in July 2015.  Performing Discretions For Ensemble will be: Shani-Mohini Holmes, Tully Sumner, Barnaby Oliver, Chun-liang Liu, Carmen Chan, Sam McAuliffe, Melanie Walters, Rhys Butler, Jennifer Callaway, Stephen Roach and David Seedsman.
  • Next on the agenda I will be performing in a new collaboration with Camille Robinson and touring American artist, Stephen Roach.
  • Finally, I will be performing Carmen Chan’s Do You See What I Hear? with Carmen, Llara Goodall, and Brigid Burke on projections.

Timetable for these performances:

2pm – The Phonetic Orchestra

3pm – Clinton Green’s Discretions For Ensemble

6pm – Clinton Green/Stephen Roach/Camille Robinson

9pm – Carmen Chan’s Do You See What I Hear?

There are many other wonderful things happening over the festival, view the full programme here

 

 

“The State of Sound: conversations about sound art and experimental music” now available to stream/download on demand

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The weekly radio conversations I’ve been having with Camilla Hannan over the past month on 3RRR-FM’s Smart Arts programme have been collected together into an online album that you can stream/download for free from Shame File Music.

Our final conversation for the series is tomorrow morning (Thursday 14 January) at about 10:40am on 3RRR-FM if you would like to tune in, and will be added to the online album as well at some stage in the future.

Thanks to Camilla for initiating the idea, making it happen and joining me for stimulating conversations.

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’.