Performances

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.

Performances in Melbourne this weekend

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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

Improv Idol – Thursday 1 October, 8pm

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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.

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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

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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.

Facebook Chorus Facebook Event

Video from Moe Chee performance in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 10 July 2015

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This video captures most of a Moe Chee performance given in Taiwan in July. We began in Ruh Café before migrating with our audience across the road to Birthday Park. Fang-Yi and Feng-Chen Hseih were subtle guest artists.

It’s a very long video, but if you are willing to sit with it I think it gives a good representation of the mood and feel of the performance. If it helps, there is a cute cat in it as well.