A really special day last Sunday afternoon at Quiet Noise VI, with thoughtful performances from all and a great biriyani dinner afterwards. Hopefully a bit of video in future, too.
Performances
Quiet Noise VI
Quiet Noise is an annual house/backyard show that challenges experimental/noise performers to play without amplification. This year we have our first international touring artist.
- radio cegeste – Sally Ann McIntyre (NZ) harnesses the material of the airwaves to the practices of phonography and more archival forms of sound-collecting, she programmes a micro radio project station (radio cegeste 104.5FM) as a sporadic, mobile, small-radius platform for unstable site-responsive radio art events. http://radiocegeste.blogspot.com.au/
- Ren Walters & Clinton Green – perform a duo with sheets of metal recently retrieved from the bush north of Mildura.
- Derek McCormack – solo performance from recent Improv Idol finalist!
- With acoustic turntable preparations from DJ Stanley Phatmax between acts.
Sunday 12 Feb 2017, 2pm
15 Neil St, West Footscray
Free music/free entry (donation for food afterwards).
Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/1275793239134999/
Overhea[r]d video
Here’s some video of my performance with acoustic turntable and live video projection at LongPlay last November. I’ve had this concept in mind for a few years, so it was great to come to grips with the technology and make it happen. I hope to develop it more in future.
January is often ‘video editing’ month for me, so hopefully I’ll have some more video up from activities over the past few months up soon.
CURRENT – Fri 16 Dec 2016
I have performed at many CURRENT events since it began in 2012, and I’m pleased to be a part of this year’s iteration, taking place next Friday (16 December 2016, from 6pm) at Moreland City Band Hall. CURRENT began with the basic premise of creating new trios of improvisers who had never played together previously, and has developed over the years to also include dancers and visual artists. This year, CURRENT returns to its musical roots featuring only instrumentalists, with each trio based around a young up-and-coming drummer. None of us know who we will be playing with, until Ren Walters tells us on the night.
Photos from two recent performances
Solo performance at Soundings, Footscray (13 November 2016):
Public space performance with Carmen Chan & Michael McNab, part of Carmen’s Do You See What I Hear? project, Box Hill Central (18 November 2016):
Overhea[r]d this Friday
Overhea[r]d – live sound and projections.
Friday 18 November, 2016 – 9pm
LongPlay, 318 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North
* Alice Hui-Sheng Chang & Jessie Scott : Much-missed ex-Melbourne resident Alice Hui-Sheng Chang visits from Taiwan for a rare sound/video duo with Jessie Scott. https://vimeo.com/105724843 . This is Alice’s only Melbourne performance.
* Kota Yamauchi & Matsu : Kota is an ambient/noise guitarist from Kyoto, Japan, visiting Melbourne for the first time. He is joined by Yutaka Matsuda (AKA Matsu), a liquid lighting artist from Osaka. https://soundcloud.com/kota-yamauchi
* Clinton Green : I am debuting/testing a new work for acoustic turntable and live projection.
Entry by donation
Solo acoustic turntable this Sunday in Footscray
I’m performing solo on ‘acoustic turntable’ in different contexts at two events over the next couple of weeks. This video has some snippets of what you can expect:
Soundings: a walk through extemporization
Sunday 13 November 2016, 3pm. 36 Moreland Street, Footscray. Entry – $5
Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/1419033811440904/
Performances from:
Ernie Althoff
Clinton Green
Sister
Gary Butler/Rafael Kaczmarek/Tim Hilton
The next event is an Audio Visual presentation on Friday 18 November at LongPlay. See details here, more to come next week.
Four Things and More #2 this Friday
A rare occasion this Friday night – I will pick up a guitar and perform in public with it. I’ve been pretty much dared into doing this by Carmen Chan, but the joke is on her as she has to perform with me. Just goes to show; ask/dare me to do anything in a performance and I’ll probably consider it.
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks engaging consistently with guitar again in preparation for this. I recorded and performed on electric guitar for many years before giving it away for other things. This time, I’m playing acoustic guitar. Although the mechanics of the instrument are very familiar, my relative inexperience with the acoustic version means I’m still approaching it as a new instrument/sonic object in many ways.
We’ll be providing accompaniment to a performance by Juana Beltran. Also featuring sets by Derek McCormack, Michael McNab, and Myfanwy Hunter/Julian Espana Keller…and more.
