Performances
Upcoming performances/events Jan-Feb 2016
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
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.
Jennifer Walshe’s Facebook Chorus
Facebook Chorus by Jennifer Walshe. I participated in this performance for the Liquid Architecture Festival at the NGV Great Hall on Sunday 27 September 2015. Thanks to Shani Mohini-Holmes for inviting me and organising. More about Facebook Chorus (my name isn’t listed, but trust me, I was there; my voice is unmistakable).
Performances in Melbourne this weekend
Two afternoon gigs this weekend around town:
7 November 2015, 1:30pm – Antechamber @ Footscray Community Arts Centre, Australia. Facebook event.
- Phonetic Orchestra with Jim Denley
- Jenny Barnes/Clinton Green/Michael McNab – Very excited about this trio. Michael and I have been playing together a lot on the recent THIS Ensemble tour, and I’m a gushing fan of Jenny as well.
- Clinton Green – First solo multiple turntable performance for a while.
8 November 2015, 11am-4pm – Re::set @ Abbotsford Convent – Bishop’s Parlour, Victoria, Australia. Facebook event.
A large and varied line-up of performances and diffusions as part of the Abbotsford Convent’s Open Spaces day (there’s also a ‘zine fair, dance and other performances). I will be doing a solo turntable performance scheduled for 12:20pm. The full performance line-up is:
- Ben Byrne
- Clinton Green
- Ernie Althoff
- Shani Mohini-Holmes & Dale Gorfinkel
- Michael McNab
- Rebecca Jensen
- John Jacobs
- Llara Goodall & Carey Knight
- Sister
THIS Ensemble go country & western
From Wednesday, THIS Ensemble travel through North Western Victoria performing/existing throughout several country towns in a semi-official/unofficial capacity.
Avoca – Wednesday 28 October
Jeparit – Friday 30 October
Natimuk Festival Saturday 31 October to Sunday 1 November
Dimboola – Monday 2 November
THIS Ensemble – this Saturday at ACCA
THIS Ensemble will perform/exist this Saturday 10 October 2015 outside the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Grant Street, Southbank). We will orbit around the MARP (Malaysia Australia Rafter Project) installation. The MARP group will be giving a focussed performance at 1pm, and THIS Ensemble will probably work around that, through the afternoon and into the evening. It’s free, why don’t you drop by.
Improv Idol – Thursday 1 October, 8pm
We’re are getting towards the pointy end of Improv Idol; the improvisation ‘talent show’ conceived by myself and Carmen Chan. We’ve announced our panel of expert judges and our final contestants, and it all goes down at the Wesley Anne in Northcote next Thursday night (1st of October). YOU the audience will vote for the best member of an improvising ensemble, who then go through to battle it out in a final round.
Tonight from midnight, Carmen and I will be joined by one of our judges in Carolyn Connors on The Sound Barrier on PBS-FM, chatting to host (and another member of our judging panel!) Ian Parsons about good/bad/winning/losing improvisation. Tune in tonight or listen to the programme at your leisure from tomorrow. Ian has written this post on improvisation leading up the show.
Facebook Chorus this Sunday
I’m taking part in this day-long performance with a number of other artists as part of the Liquid Architecture festival:
Facebook Chorus
SUN 27 Sep 2015
10am-5pm (free entry)
Great Hall, National Gallery of Victoria
NGV International 180 St Kilda Road Melbourne
An ensemble of singers reciting texts derived in situ from their Facebook feeds throughout the day in this radical new performance by Irish conceptual composer Jennifer Walshe. The daily harvest of data banalities transformed into a choral social medium.
