Quiet Noise XI
Saturday 25 February, 2023, 2-5pm
House/backyard show, West Footscray (contact for address)
After a year off due to COVID and lockdowns, Melbourne’s long-time annual backyard experimental show is back.
– Nat Grant/Miranda Hill
– Clinton Green/Allanah Stewart
– Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung/Mirren Strahan/Lily Tait
Free entry/free music ($5 to partake of biriyani dinner afterwards).
Thursday 2 February, 2023
7pm
The Charles Ives Singers
Radio Cegeste
Clinton Green and Michael McNab
The Pavilion, Fitzroy Gardens, East Melbourne.
Entry by donation
This track was originally included on the Melbourne Water compilation CD (W-Mic, 2004), which has recently been uploaded to Bandcamp.
I’ll be playing at the SoundOut Festival from 27-29 January in Canberra along with a wealth of improvisors. Tickets and programme here.
I have a new previously-unreleased track available for streaming on the SNOsound website: Fo(u)r flexi-discs (1 then 2 then 3 turntables).
SNOsound showcases contemporary music and sound with critical review scholarship. A review of each track featured, written by another artist, will appear in future.
Stranger is a new participatory event for small audiences devised by Aviva Endean About a year ago, Aviva invited myself and three other artists – Laura Altman, Carolyn Connors and Dale Gorfinkel – to contribute participatory/interactive works to the project. The work has been through a number of creative development phases throughout the year, which I have found highly rewarding, and also quite luxurious in having the time and space to focus on my work alongside such a high calibre of sound/music friends.
Stranger is finally seeing the light of day with a series of sessions for small audience numbers. It might be of particular interest for people curious about creating sound/music themselves in a free environment without traditional instruments, as well as for people more familiar with sound art and improvisation.
The Meat Market Stables Dec 15-18th
Thursday 15 Dec | 6pm, 8pm
Friday 16 Dec | 6pm, 8pm
Saturday 17 Dec | 1pm, 3pm, 6pm, 8pm
Sunday 18 Dec | 1pm, 3pm, 6pm, 8pm
Duration: 75 minutes
Accessibility: The Stables is a wheelchair accessible venue. Please advise the team of any other accessibility requirements when booking.
At The Salt Museum is now available in full on Bandcamp for streaming and download.
The tracks that made up this album were originally recorded on 4 December 2015, at the Murray Sunset National Park in North West Victoria. That will be 7 years ago on Sunday 4 December 2022, when Clinton Green & Michael McNab will be playing a duo in support of a rare Melbourne performance from Astasie-abasie.
A small amount of the original CD are still available.
Astasie-abasie (SYD)
LIKE (Llara Goodall & Ben Speth)
Clinton Green & Michael McNab
Sunday 4 December, 2022 – 6pm
Static 0pen, 144 Gordon St, Footscray
Sounds from Shame File’s everlasting vault of exploratory musicians, performed on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples’ land.
Astasie-abasie is a project of Ian Andrews which evolved out of a long running performance collaboration with Garry Bradbury. The project focuses on the amplification of small sounds (following the approach of John Cage, Gordon Mumma and David Tudor) through the capture of sounds generated by small objects by way of contact microphones, home constructed cartridges, miniature piezo microphones and conventional microphones. Various devices are used as constraints in order to distance any performing gesture of the artist from the compositional process.
Two albums “Elliptical Gamelan” (2022) and “Molecular Gamelan” (2021) have recently been released on Shame File Music –
https://ianandrews.bandcamp.com/music
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LIKE
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Clinton Green & Michael McNab share a long history of improvised work in various contexts, arising out of the multi-disciplinary group THIS Ensemble and their ritualistic trio with Ren Walters. Each often works with percussive elements, and sometimes incorporate turntables, feedback, and movement, drawing on their shared experiences of sound and creation, always shifting and evolving.
Their 2016 album with Ren Walters, recorded in Murray Sunset National Park, is here –
https://shamefilemusic.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-salt-museum
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