‘Discretions’ CD launch, Friday 31 July 2015

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30 CDs. 30 tracks. 30 performances.

Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver’s “Discretions” is made up of 30 improvised tracks, designed to be played in random order. Issued by Shame File Music in a limited edition of 30, each CD has individually hand-drawn cover by Tasmanian artist, Anna Dusk. Each CD has a unique track order as well.

Joining Clinton & Barnaby on the night are:

Ernie Althoff
Carmen Chan
David Evans/Louise Kellerman

Around these guests, Clinton & Barnaby will present 30 short sets, sometimes playing simultaneously with other performances. Playing times (deep breath…):

  1. 8:01 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  2. 8:03 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  3. 8:04 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  4. 8:06 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  5. 8:09 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  6. 8:12 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  7. 8:13 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  8. 8:14 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  9. 8:20 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  10. 8:22 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  11. 8:25 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  12. 8:29 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  13. 8:30 – David Evans & Louise Kellerman
  14. 8:55 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  15. 8:57 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  16. 8:59 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  17. 9:14 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  18. 9:15 – Carmen Chan
  19. 9:25 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  20. 9:29 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  21. 9:38 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  22. 9:52 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  23. 9:53 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  24. 9:54 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  25. 10:00 – Ernie Althoff
  26. 10:08 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  27. 10:15 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  28. 10:20 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  29. 10:30 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  30. 10:40 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  31. 10:50 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  32. 10:51 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
  33. 10:59 – Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver


The 30 CDs are available on the night. Get in early to choose your favourite cover – these are indeed works of art (view all 30 covers here ). Any remaining copies will be available from Shame File Music. A web app playing the 30 tracks and displaying the 30 images in random order is coming soon.

Conduit Arts, 83 Brunswick Street Fitzroy

Friday 31 July 2015 – 8pm

$10/$15 with CD

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‘Listen’ workshop – Taipei, 12 July 2015 – reading and references

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Photo: Kuan-Chiun Chuang
Photo: Kuan-Chiun Chuang

On Sunday night, I ran the ‘Listen’ workshop at the Murder Ink book store in Taipei. The workshop was specifically for the cast and crew of the upcoming Taipei Fringe Festival production Cold Case Club, but was also open to others who booked as well. Chun-liang Liu kindly translated to Mandarin for me. I really enjoyed the evening and think the participants did as well.

Photo: Kuan-Chiun Chuang
Photo: Kuan-Chiun Chuang

For participants, here are some references and further reading regarding some of the people and ideas we talked about:

Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice, iUniverse : 2005 – about Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening

Marc Weidenbaum “Sound Class, Week 1 of 15: An Introduction to Listening” in Disquiet 4 Feb 2015

Aviva Endean A Face Like Yours video, 2015 (thanks to Aviva for permission to use her video)

John Cage describes his experience in the anechoic chamber:

‘Namechanger’ premiere, with Shani Mohini-Holmes at La Musica, Monday 20 July 2015

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Leaving Taiwan today back in Melbourne to play a duo performance with Shani Mohini-Holmes at La Mama Musica on Monday 20 July. I have written a piece for vocals/text for Shani called “Namechanger”, this is the world premiere! It was written especially for the ‘X’ entry of my Address Book project  . How can Shani Mohini-Holmes be the ‘X’ entry, you ask? Well, the performance involves Shani ‘legally’ changing her name to ‘Shani Xceptional’.

We will also be improvising some other text-based works.

La Musica, La Mama Theatre, Faraday Street, Carlton

Monday 20 July 2015 – 7:30pm

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“If it ain’t broke…break it” workshop, Digilog, Taipei, 3 July 2015

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Yesterday I had my first engagement of my Taiwanese trip, a workshop at Digilog here in Taipei.

Digilog is a little shop that sells synthesisers (including modular), microphones and related equipment, along with books and CDs.

Digilog set up (03 Jul 2015)

I was very happy with the workshop. I focussed on why I do what I do with turntables, and hopefully I conveyed some of my ideas and inspiration. It was also much more participatory than I’d anticipated – everyone had a go at playing with turntable settings, putting objects and records in different places, and a couple of people even smashed some records after I demonstrated the finer points of record-breaking technique!

Digilog workshop (03 July 2015)

I had some trouble showing some of the video clips I had planned to illustrate some of my discussion points, so I list them here for workshop participants who may be interested, and for everyone else, too:

Clinton Green – The Four seasons: suite for turntable

Sonic Youth – Burning spear – live 1985

Undecisive God – Angels (example of my experimental guitar work from 2001. Fan video – not made by me)

Ross Bolleter – Five Short Ruins

Justice Yeldham – Live in Tulsa

Ernie Althoff – Live at More Talk Less Action, 2013

Many thanks to Frank and Sarah at Digilog, and to Betty Apple for putting us in touch. Thanks to Chun-liang for translating at the workshop.