Performances

Discretions CD launch video

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Here’s some video documentation of Barnaby Oliver and my performance at our “Discretions” CD launch in July 2015. Thanks to Carmen Chan for the footage.

As documented in the video, Barnaby and I performed 30 short improvisations throughout the evening, scheduled via silent alarms on our phones, to catch both us and the audience unawares.

I’ve developed this concept further for multiple performers into Discretions For Ensemble, which will premiere this Saturday at Tilde New Music Festival. I hope you’ll join me there to see how it all comes together/falls apart.

A few copies of the Discretions are still available from Shame File Music. Each hand-numbered cover is individually drawn by Anna Dusk.

Tilde New Music festival – Saturday 23 January 2016

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The Tilde New Music Festival runs from Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 January 2016 with a variety of composers and artists presenting contemporary music and sound art. I will be involved in several different performances taking place during the Saturday programme at Testing Grounds in Southbank:

  • I have been invited to guest curate the first two hours of the festival (2-4pm). For this, I have invited The Phonetic Orchestra to perform several new works composed by members of the group.
  • The second half of my curated two hours will be the premiere of a new work composed by myself called Discretions For Ensemble. This is a mutli-layered, complex structure for a large group of improvisers that extends from framework of 30 short improvisations tt Barnaby Oliver and I designed for the launch of our Discretions album in July 2015.  Performing Discretions For Ensemble will be: Shani-Mohini Holmes, Tully Sumner, Barnaby Oliver, Chun-liang Liu, Carmen Chan, Sam McAuliffe, Melanie Walters, Rhys Butler, Jennifer Callaway, Stephen Roach and David Seedsman.
  • Next on the agenda I will be performing in a new collaboration with Camille Robinson and touring American artist, Stephen Roach.
  • Finally, I will be performing Carmen Chan’s Do You See What I Hear? with Carmen, Llara Goodall, and Brigid Burke on projections.

Timetable for these performances:

2pm – The Phonetic Orchestra

3pm – Clinton Green’s Discretions For Ensemble

6pm – Clinton Green/Stephen Roach/Camille Robinson

9pm – Carmen Chan’s Do You See What I Hear?

There are many other wonderful things happening over the festival, view the full programme here

 

 

Upcoming performances/events Jan-Feb 2016

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Tuesday 12 January 2016, 9pm – Make It Up Club, Bar Open, Brunswick St, Fitzroy.

Ren Walters/Clinton Green/Elnaz Sheshgelani

Saturday 23 January 2016, 2pm – Tilde New Music Festival, Testing Grounds, 1 – 23 City Road, Southbank.

I am guest-curating the first two hours of the festival. This will include:

  • performances of new works by The Phonetic Orchestra
  • premiere of a my new work ‘Discretions For Ensemble’, performed by a large ensemble including Sam McAulliffe, Melanie Walters, Chun-liang Liu, Shani Mohini-Holmes, Tully Sumner, Barnaby Oliver, Carmen Chan, Rhys Butler, Jennifer Callaway, David Seedsman and Stephen Roach.

I will also be performing in Carmen Chan’s ‘Do You See What I Hear’ at the festival.

Saturday 13 February 2016, 2pm – Quiet Noise V, 15 Neil Street, West Footscray. Facebook event.

Our annual backyard/house show of unamplified experimental music enters its fifth year. This instalment features sound poet Anna Fern, Aviva Endean, and a trio of Jenny Barnes/Clinton Green/Michael McNab.

Monday 15 February 2016 – La Musica, La Mama – Court House Theatre, Carlton.

I will be performing in Carmen Chan’s ‘Do You See What I Hear’.

Duo with Adam Simmons this Thursday night

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I’m thrilled to be 1% of the guests invited to be part of Adam Simmons’ extraordinary project 100:25:1, that’s been running just about every night at Conduit Arts throughout November. I’ve gotten along as an audience member to a few of these nights, and it’s been something quite special. To briefly sum up the project, Adam is performing 100 duets throughout the month, drawing on Melbourne musicians from different scenes and musical traditions. These interconnections are being mapped throughout the month, that will eventually form the basis of an online database.

Also performing duets on Thursday night  with Adam will be Aviva Endean, Matt Earl, and Simon Lewis.

This will probably be my last Melbourne gig for 2015.

26 November 2015, 8pm – duo with Adam Simmons @ Conduit Arts, 83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Facebook event. Tickets.