Dimensions of Incomprehensibilities – Thurs 5 June 2025
Carolyn Connors
History of Quiet Noise
At the most recent Quiet Noise (the annual backyard show focusing on un/low amplified experimental music), there was discussion over the traditional veg biriyani about how many events there had been, what had happened during COVID, who played when and with whom. Ernie Althoff thinks he has been to all of them except one, and he praised the consistent quality of the series over the years. I struggled to remember some details, so decided to go back through the archives and pull some details together.
I – 14 January 2012
Althoff/Green/McIntosh
Ernie Althoff
Clinton Green
Andrew McIntosh
II – 2 March 2013
Tim Catlin
Clinton Green & Andrew McIntosh
Gearoid Brinn & Barnaby Oliver
III – 15 February 2014
Warren Burt & Tim Catlin
Warrant Burt
Ernie Althoff
Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver
(first recorded mention of biriyani meal)
IV – 28 February 2015
THIS Ensemble video
Paul Kidney Experience video
V – 13 February 2016
Jenny Barnes/Clinton Green/Michael McNab
Anna Fern
Aviva Endean (with Dale Gorfinkel, Clinton Green & Michael McNab)
VI – 12 February 2017
Radio Cegeste
Ren Walters & Clinton Green
Derek McCormack
Acoustic turntable preparations from DJ Stanley Phatmax between sets.
VII – 17 March 2018
Clinton Green
Simon Charles & ensemble (Kim Tan, Phoebe Green, Lily Tait, Rory Brown, Michael McNab)
Snacks
Machines by Ernie Althoff
This was an evening event, beginning at 6pm when it was still daylight. Clinton’s performance took place at the nearby railyards after dark.
VIII – 23 February 2019
Maria Moles/Dale Gorfinkel/Michael McNab
Clinton Green/Barnaby Oliver
David Palliser
IX – 14 March 2020
Tarab
Chun-liang Liu
Clinton Green
**this event was cancelled due to COVID**
X – 17 April 2021
Erin K. Taylor
Nick Ashwood/Clinton Green/Michael McNab
Tarab
**there was no event in 2022 due to ongoing COVID lockdowns**
XI – 25 February 2023
Nat Grant/Miranda Hill – Video
Clinton Green/Allanah Stewart
Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung/Mirren Strahan/Lily Tait – Video
XII – 3 February 2024
Connors/Callaway/Green/Liauw/Alexander (impromptu jam)
Carolyn Connors
Jen Callaway & Clinton Green
Levi Liauw & Mia Alexander
XIII – 8 February 2025
Helen Svoboda
Clinton Green
David Palliser/Rafal Kaczmarek
Machine by Ernie Althoff in between sets
Quiet Noise XII
Quiet Noise, the annual experimental backyard/house show returns for 2024, with:
- Carolyn Connors
- Jennifer Callaway & Clinton Green
- Levi Liauw & Mia Alexander
Saturday 3 February, 2pm – West Footscray private residence (contact cdgsham AT gmail.com for address). Free entry, contribute $5-10 for a shared meal afterwards.
Connors/Green/Speth at MAke It Up Club 26 Sept 2023
A first-time trio of myself, Carolyn Connors and Ben Speth will be playing at the Absorb-curated Make It Up Club on Tuesday 26 September, 2023 (8pm) – upstairs at Bar Open (317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy).
Performances/happenings, May-June-July 2023
-Friday 19 May, 7-9pm – Intersection (Cnr Swanston and La Trobe Streets, Melbourne).
-Tuesday 6 June, 8pm – Make It Up Club (Bar Open (upstairs), 317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy).
Take two of my duo with Carolyn Connors, which was postponed earlier this year due to illness.
-Sunday 11 June, 3pm – Merri-bek City Band Room (16 Cross St, Brunswick)
I’m joining the extended Snacks Super Group for this gig. Also playing are Adam Gottlieb and Peter Farrar visiting from Sydney.
-Saturday 17 June, 7-9pm – Intersection (Nicholson St Mall, Footscray)
Interested and non-interested parties gather at a certain location on a certain date and time, but what is not certain is what may occur and who is or is not participating. What makes this occasion an event and what is it to participate ? Does this mean that whoever happens to be present at that location at that time is a participant in an event marked by the specifics of time and place ? What separates the location and the start and end times from adjacent locations and times ? Where and when precisely are the boundaries of place and time ? Who is cleaving time and place and for what purpose ?
Of the co-occurring actions, stories and trajectories jostling en route which one(s) constitute the specified event INTERSECTION ?
Propositions for a start to speculative performance.
-Thursday 22 June, 7:30pm (Long Play, 318 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North)
Clinton Green/Michael McNab/Allanah Stewart + Dale Gorfinkel + LIKE
-Saturday 1 July, 7:30pm – exp-west (Sleepless Festival, 170 Nicholson st, Footscray)
Whitehorse + Clinton Green+ Maltese Well Monster & friends + Deep Sneeze
–13-23 July – Here and Now (Verwalterhaus, cnr Prenzlauer Allee and Mollstraße, Berlin, Germany).
I have a new video work called “Greetings from Australia” premiering at this exhibition. The work is made in collaboration with filmmaker, Colin Hodson.
New releases on Shame File Music
Ernie Althoff/Carolyn Connors – Surface Noise Vol.9 CDR – The penultimate edition of the Surface Noise series, which each include live recordings from two artists; one invited by the labels, the other then nominated by that artist. This volume features two key Melbourne music identities: instrument builder/kinetic sound sculpture maestro, Ernie Althoff, and vocalist/composer/performer, Carolyn Connors. Limited edition of 50 hand-numbered copies.
Great Rack “sample pack” digital – Looking for a lockdown project? Great Rack comes to the rescue with the release of “sample pack”, a pack of 100 free samples, that Emily Bennett invites you to do with what thou whilt. The A3 Korg Signal Processing Rack was the mainstay of Great Rack, the alias of Emily Bennett, in the improvising experimental trio Great Rack and an Empty Club Reverb. The machine’s 1988 volatility has been distilled into a downloadable pack of 100 vocal samples ready to be chopped and sampled for future music and beat making.
Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver “The Interstices Of These Epidemics” CD/digital – Special pre-order price AU$12 ends 15 August. CDs available then or hopefully before, digital available now.
New additions to Shame File Music mailorder:
SPECIAL OFFER “Surface Noise” series, set of all available volumes – Get 7 available CDRs in the series for $50 (limited copies available).
Prophets – Complete discography special deal – Get Volumes 1-4 of the Prophets discography for the special price of $30 for 4 CDs, while stocks last.
DFFDL “Corella” cassette – Accomplished drone composition from Melbourne’s Anthony Cooley.
West Head Project “A Closely Woven Fabrik” CD – Beautiful outdoor performance in Tassie 2009 from Jim Denley, Monika Brooks, Dale Gorfinkel, recorded by Anthony Magen.
Order these and more from http://ShameFileMusic.com
This Will Be My Last Test – performance documentation
This Will Be My Last Test
Thanks for coming…We really appreciate it…
Let us guide you on a journey through the narrow space between two walls, two meanings, between bodies both corporeal and ephemeral, words repentant and accusatory.
This Will Be My Last Test – a projection, installation and performance work by Clinton Green & Carolyn Connors, part of the West Projections Festival.
Thursday 23-25 August, 2018
Alleyway, next to Cheaper Buy Miles, 160 Barkly St, Footscray.
The installation will run from 6:30-8pm each night, with two short performances in the alleyway nightly at 7:15 and 7:45pm. West Projections are also running guided walks earlier each evening that will incorporate a performance (these walks require bookings and have a fee).
The installation features video performances by Chun-Liang Liu, Michael McNab & Emma Riches.
FREE – NO BOOKINGS NECESSARY
Clinton Green 