Nick Ashwood

History of Quiet Noise

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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

Photo: Peter James

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)

Photos: Greg Wadley

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.

Video and photos

VIII – 23 February 2019

Maria Moles/Dale Gorfinkel/Michael McNab

Clinton Green/Barnaby Oliver

David Palliser

Video

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 X

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Quiet Noise is back post-lockdown with a special Autumnal edition.


Quiet Noise X

Erin K. Taylor

Nick Ashwood/Clinton Green/Michael McNab

Tarab


Saturday 17 April 2021 – 2pm.

15 Neil Street, West Footscray – Free – BOOKINGS (optional in case COVID restrictions limit numbers)- email cdgsham@gmail.com

‘Relativity/Only’ Album Launch

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Relativity/Only Album Launch
Thursday 25 March 2021, 8:30pm
Avalon Bar, 387 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
$10

My new album Relativity/Only (Nice Music/Shame File Music) will be launched later this month at Avalon (former site of Polyester Records). I will be constructing the sound sculpture that generated the music for the album (three turntables with suspensions and objects) for the event, and hopefully playing the tracks on Side A of the album on a “loop”, so to speak.

I will also be joined by Nick Ashwood and Michael McNab, and we’ll then play a “quartet” with the sound sculpture.

This will be my first live performance since September 2019!

Rehearsing with Nick & Michael

Relativity/Only is available now from Shame File Music and Nice Music.

Music Under Lockdown: Melbourne 2020

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Music Under Lockdown: Melbourne 2020 is a new digital compilation album I’ve compiled, collecting recordings made by Melbourne musicians over the recent months of COVID-19 lockdown.

Included is a new duo recording with myself and Nick Ashwood:

This was the last time I played music with another person (July 2020) in the same room at the time of writing. Nick was visiting Melbourne and we quickly teed up a jam, just as the second lockdown was rolling out. My suburb was in lockdown, but my studio was nearby in a non-lockdown postcode. We met there and played for a couple of hours. This was the first time we’d played together as a duo. Nick was staying in North Melbourne, and it was announced that evening that suburb would be locked down at midnight. Within a week or two the whole city was as well.