Two weeks in Taiwan, July 2015

I’m very excited to announce the details of my visit to Taiwan from 2-14 July, 2015.

During my stay, Chun-liang Liu and I will be working on site-specific/field recordings for an upcoming Moe Chee album release. There will also be some Moe Chee performances and I will also be facilitating two workshops.

Taiwan July 2014: 3 July 2015, 3pm – ‘If It Ain’t Broke…Break It’ workshop (facilitated by Clinton Green) @ DigiLog, Taipei, Taiwan.  Australian experimental musician and performer, Clinton Green, demonstrates his approach to faulty and redundant technologies as compositional material and takeoff points to free improvisation. Clinton works with defective record players and shattered vinyl records, pushing materials to the point of disintegration and failure, to seek new musical and sonic outcomes. Clinton will demonstrate and discuss his approach to music and noise in this workshop, and lead a discussion with participants about the possibilities of incorporating ‘broken music’ into their own work, both on practical and philosophical levels. Bookings.

9 July 2015 – Moe Chee, @182artspace, Tainan, Taiwan. Facebook event

10 July 2015, 3pm – Moe Chee Ruh Cafe, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Facebook event

11 July 2015 – Moe Chee  with Jeff Carey & Sangatsu @ Lacking Sound Festival, Minquan District Activity Center, No.43, Sec. 5, Minquan E. Rd., Songshan Dist, Taipei, Taiwan. Facebook event

12 July 2015, 7:30pm – ‘Listen’ workshop (facilitated by Clinton Green) @ Murder Ink bookshop, Taipei, Taiwan

Australian experimental musician and performer, Clinton Green, leads a group workshop in the art of listening. Through discussion, group exercises and personal experiences, Clinton will lead the group in an exploration of sound in site-specific performance (in this case, a bookshop). The workshop will cover approaches to discovering and incorporating sound inherent in the site into performance, as well as focussing on the inner experience of listening itself. The workshop is designed for cast members of the upcoming Taipei Fringe Festival production “Cold Case Club”, directed by Clinton’s Moe Chee partner, Chun-liang Liu (running in late August 2015); as such, it is cultivated towards theatrical performers, but other places are open to people of all backgrounds and interests. SOLD OUT.

End of April. Beginning of May – 默契 (Moe Chee)

Photo: Carmen Chan
Photo: Carmen Chan

Sunday 3 May is the beginning of a big project Chun-liang Liu and I (Moe Chee) have been planning since last year. End of April Beginning of May consists of 7 performances over 7 consecutive days, undertaken without permission at a public space in Melbourne CBD. We will perform at different times of the day (dawn, lunchtime, evening, the middle of the night), with different guest artists on most days.

Our schedule:

– Sunday 3 May, 3pm – 默契

– Monday 4 May, dawn – 默契 with Carmen Chan

– Tuesday 5 May, 9am – 默契

– Wednesday 6 May, 12pm – 默契 with Ren Walters

– Thursday 7 May, 3am (Friday morning) -默契 with Gabriela Green

– Friday 8 May, 11pm – 默契 with Jennifer Callaway

– Saturday 9 May, 4pm-sunset – 默契 with Shani Holmes, and picnic for guest artists and audience.

Venue: State Library of Victoria forecourt and surrounds.

All performances are free. Chun-liang and I are also recording our expectations and experiences on this page.

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Three performances over the next week or so.

Clinton Green/Michael McNab/Ren Walters trio
w/-Nigel Brown, Shani Holmes/Adrian Sherriff
Cross Street, 16-22 Cross St, Brunswick
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**  Saturday 21 March, 2015, 3-11pm
Current
My consideration to employ these activities [domestic tasks] into the Current event comes from acknowledging interest in the social outskirts of performances, the art that lays within the activities, pleasure, and to serve as respite from a long duration of personal interactions and concentration on generation and creativity.” – Jenny Barnes, guest curator.
Conduit Arts, 83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
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**  Thursday 26 March, 2015
默契 (Moe Chee) (Clinton Green & Chun-liang Liu)
with Dale Gorfinkel/Brett Thompson, Shani Holmes/Michael McNab.
Conduit Arts, 83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
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默契 (Moe Chee) at Make It Up Club – Tuesday 10 March 2015

默契 (Moe Chee) (Clinton Green & Chun-liang Liu)

w/ Forenzics and Todd Anderson-Kunert

Make It Up Club

Bar Open (upstairs), 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

Photo: Jordan Sibley
Photo: Jordan Sibley

A special event for several reasons:

  • It’s our first performance since Chun-liang and I named our partnership 默契 (Moe Chee)
  • It’s our first performance together for 2015 (besides THIS Ensemble shenanigans)
  • It’s our first performance together where we have had PERMISSION to perform!

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