Two weeks in Taiwan, July 2015

June 10, 2015August 14, 2015 | cdgsham

I’m very excited to announce the details of my visit to Taiwan from 2-14 July, 2015.

During my stay, Chun-liang Liu and I will be working on site-specific/field recordings for an upcoming Moe Chee album release. There will also be some Moe Chee performances and I will also be facilitating two workshops.

Taiwan July 2014: 3 July 2015, 3pm – ‘If It Ain’t Broke…Break It’ workshop (facilitated by Clinton Green) @ DigiLog, Taipei, Taiwan. Australian experimental musician and performer, Clinton Green, demonstrates his approach to faulty and redundant technologies as compositional material and takeoff points to free improvisation. Clinton works with defective record players and shattered vinyl records, pushing materials to the point of disintegration and failure, to seek new musical and sonic outcomes. Clinton will demonstrate and discuss his approach to music and noise in this workshop, and lead a discussion with participants about the possibilities of incorporating ‘broken music’ into their own work, both on practical and philosophical levels. Bookings.

9 July 2015 – Moe Chee, @182artspace, Tainan, Taiwan. Facebook event

10 July 2015, 3pm – Moe Chee @ Ruh Cafe, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Facebook event

11 July 2015 – Moe Chee with Jeff Carey & Sangatsu @ Lacking Sound Festival, Minquan District Activity Center, No.43, Sec. 5, Minquan E. Rd., Songshan Dist, Taipei, Taiwan. Facebook event

12 July 2015, 7:30pm – ‘Listen’ workshop (facilitated by Clinton Green) @ Murder Ink bookshop, Taipei, Taiwan

Australian experimental musician and performer, Clinton Green, leads a group workshop in the art of listening. Through discussion, group exercises and personal experiences, Clinton will lead the group in an exploration of sound in site-specific performance (in this case, a bookshop). The workshop will cover approaches to discovering and incorporating sound inherent in the site into performance, as well as focussing on the inner experience of listening itself. The workshop is designed for cast members of the upcoming Taipei Fringe Festival production “Cold Case Club”, directed by Clinton’s Moe Chee partner, Chun-liang Liu (running in late August 2015); as such, it is cultivated towards theatrical performers, but other places are open to people of all backgrounds and interests. SOLD OUT.

Upcoming performances/events, July-September 2015

June 5, 2015June 28, 2015 | cdgsham

3 July 2015 (afternoon) – ‘If It Ain’t Broke…Break It’ workshop (facilitated by Clinton Green) @ DigiLog, Taipei, Taiwan. Bookings.

9 July 2015 – Moe Chee, @ 182artspace, Tainan, Taiwan

10 July 2015, 3pm – Moe Chee @ Ruh Cafe, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

11 July 2015 – Moe Chee with Jeff Carey & Sangatsu @ Lacking Sound Festival, Taipei, Taiwan

12 July 2015, 7:30pm – ‘Listen’ workshop (facilitated by Clinton Green) @ Murder Ink bookshop, Taipei, Taiwan (workshop places are limited, get in contact to book)

20 July 2015 – Clinton Green with Shani Mohini-Holmes @ La Mama Musica, Melbourne, Australia

31 July 2015, 8pm – Clinton Green/Barnaby Oliver ‘Discretions’ CD launch, with guests Ernie Althoff, Carmen Chan & David Evans/Louise Kellerman @ Conduit Arts, Melbourne, Australia. Facebook event.

13 August 2015, 7:30pm – More Talk, Less Action @ The Channel, Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia

2-13 September 2015 – The Birds Conference @ La Mama, Melbourne, Australia. Facebook event.

THIS Ensemble – Cross Street, 30 May 2015

May 25, 2015 | cdgsham

THIS Ensemble
‘Under the circumstances, again’

Saturday 30 May, 2015
5pm to late

Cross Street (Moreland City Band Hall, behind bowls club)
16 Cross Street, East Brunswick

Facebook event

Audience video from Birds Conference performance (22 May 2015 at Conduit)

May 25, 2015May 25, 2015 | cdgsham

The Birds Conference, Elnaz Sheshgelani, part 1 @ Conduit Arts 22/5/2015 from Emma Cass Songdahl on Vimeo.

The Birds Conference

May 19, 2015May 19, 2015 | cdgsham

Elnaz Sheshgelani’s play “The Birds Conference” premiered as part of La Mama Theatre’s Explorations series for a brief run of three nights in November 2014. For one night only at Conduit Arts, Sheshgelani is rejoined by Clinton Green & Shani Mohini-Holmes to revive their creative partnership in the world of the birds, presenting several episodes of the play in an intimate setting, with lighting design by Simon Fisher.

Opening proceedings on the night will be:

– Shani Mohini-Holmes/Adrian Sherriff duo

– Clinton Green (solo)

Friday 22 May, 2015 – 8pm

Conduit Arts, 83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

Entry: $10

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The full production of the play will return to La Mama for a longer season later in 2015.

End of April. Beginning of May – notes, photos, etc.

May 13, 2015 | cdgsham

Last week, my duo with Chun-liang Liu “Moe Chee” completed a major public space performance project over seven consecutive days. Notes and photos are here at the Moe Chee website, more photos and video will appear in future.

End of April. Beginning of May – 默契 (Moe Chee)

April 27, 2015May 2, 2015 | cdgsham

Sunday 3 May is the beginning of a big project Chun-liang Liu and I (Moe Chee) have been planning since last year. End of April Beginning of May consists of 7 performances over 7 consecutive days, undertaken without permission at a public space in Melbourne CBD. We will perform at different times of the day (dawn, lunchtime, evening, the middle of the night), with different guest artists on most days.

Our schedule:

– Sunday 3 May, 3pm – 默契

– Monday 4 May, dawn – 默契 with Carmen Chan

– Tuesday 5 May, 9am – 默契

– Wednesday 6 May, 12pm – 默契 with Ren Walters

– Thursday 7 May, 3am (Friday morning) -默契 with Gabriela Green

– Friday 8 May, 11pm – 默契 with Jennifer Callaway

– Saturday 9 May, 4pm-sunset – 默契 with Shani Holmes, and picnic for guest artists and audience.

Venue: State Library of Victoria forecourt and surrounds.

All performances are free. Chun-liang and I are also recording our expectations and experiences on this page.

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