Performances

CURRENT 2017/18

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CURRENT 2017-18 flyer

CURRENT 2017/18

Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 February 2018, 1:30-10:30pm

Aeso Studio, 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy (enter through laneway at rear via Palmer St)

$10 per day, or $15 for both days.

Facebook event.

CURRENT has been a significant event in the Melbourne improvised music and performance calendar for several years now, and this year I’ve been humbled in being asked by founder Ren Walters to guest curate it along with Michael McNab.

Michael and I have spent that past few months planning a two day structure that will see a ragtag bunch of 30 performers (musicians, poets, dancers, visual artists, performance artists, and ‘in-betweeners’) divided up into new ensembles to improvise. Each performer will perform twice, once on Saturday and then again on Sunday in a completely different ensemble. We were on PBS-FM’s The Sound Barrier last night discussing it – listen here.

Performers:

Juana Beltran
Georgia Bettens
Jennifer Callaway
Mick Douglas
Matt Faisander
Simon Fisher
Susan Frykberg
Cor Fuhler
Llara Goodall
Dale Gorfinkel
Clinton Green
Martin Kay
Kim Kerze
Cam Love
Scott McConnachie
Derek McCormack
Siobhan McKenna
Michael McNab
Sage Pbbbt
Amaara Raheem
Emma Riches
Allanah Stewart
Erin K Taylor
Josh Twee
Ren Walters
Giles Warren
Mitchell Welch
Samuel Harnett Welk

Schedule

‘Iliad’ – CD launch this Saturday night

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Frustration Jazz launches my new solo CD ‘Iliad’ this Saturday night:
 
Saturday 27 January, 2018 – 8pm
Clinton Green/DFFDL Double CD launch
Aeso Studio, 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy (enter via laneway at rear via Palmer St).
 
DFFDL
Clinton Green
Erin K Taylor
Dale Gorfinkel,Alannah Stewart & friends
 
 
This new CD is a live recording of the complete version of my piece ‘Setting for “The Iliad”‘, based around excerpts of Peter Green’s translation of Homer’s epic. Different versions of this piece have appeared elsewhere; including an early live excerpt on ‘Lay Your High City Low’, and a studio version broadcast on Ears Have Ears last year, but this is your first chance to own the complete work itself.
 
Stream/download here https://frustrationjazz.bandcamp.com/album/iliad . CDs available on the night, and from Frustration Jazz and Shame File Music.

 

Upcoming performances – Melbourne & Taiwan tour

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– Tuesday 12 December 2017, 9pm – Make It Up Club, Upstairs @ Bar Open, 317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy – duo with Barnaby Oliver. Facebook event.

MOE CHEE TAIWAN TOUR JANUARY 2018:

– Saturday 27 January 2018 – Aeso Studio, 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy – Launch for my upcoming solo CD Iliad (out soon on Frustration Jazz) – Facebook event.

– Saturday/Sunday 17-18 February 2018 – CURRENT (guest curated by myself and Michael McNab), Aeso Studio, 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy (details to come).

– Saturday 17 March 2018 – Quiet Noise VII, 15 Neil St, West Footscray. Facebook event.

October/November performances (Japan & Melbourne)

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Japan dates:

Tuesday 31 October 2017 – Moe Chee (first performance in over a year) @ Apollo, Tokyo.

Friday 3 November 2017 @ Bar Bonobo, Tokyo

Thursday 9 November 2017 @ UrbanGuild, Kyoto.

Saturday 11 November 2017 @ Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto – Facebook event

Melbourne dates:

Friday 24 November 2017, One Night in Footscray, Footscray – Facebook event.

Saturday 25 November 2017, Carmen Chan‘s If I Am A Musical Thinker @ Church of All Nations, 180 Palmerston St, Carlton – Facebook event.

Duo with Paul Kidney at Make It Up Club, 12 Sept 2017

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Clinton and Paul Kidney, Night Heron, 22 Jun 2017 (pic - Lilly Pilly)
Photo: Lilly Pilly

Last month’s collaboration with Eamon Sprod was going to be my last Melbourne performance for a while, but an opportunity for a return bout of my improv duo with Paul Kidney is too good to refuse. We’ll be playing at Make It Up Club as part of night guest curated by Adam Gauci from Curse Ov Dialect.

Tuesday 12 September 2017, 9pm.

Make It Up Club, Bar Open (upstairs), 317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy.

CURRENT 2016 video

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Here’s some video of the first-time improvising trios that played at CURRENT 2015, last December at Cross Street. CURRENT is a roughly annual event organised by Ren Walters, built around new trios of improvisers. This instalment’s theme was young drummers matched with more…ahem…experienced players.

I joined Myfanwy Hunter and Zeke Ruckman for my trio, which is the last trio in the video from about 10:25.