Browsing Month 'May, 2008'
Thursday evening, 22 May, saw the culmination of the second OPEN CHANNEL VIDEO SLAM for Arts Law Week 2008. Some where in the vicinity of 70 - 80 people took themselves to the Horse Bazaar to view the four short videos our sixteen participants had made and to hear our panel’s assessment of them. Setting [...]
It’s another Arts Law Week, the 3rd I’ve worked on now and the first with apc.au under contract to OPEN CHANNEL to deliver VIDEO SLAM 02. It’s a smaller team of slammers and we have fewer resources, but we’re a tight unit, making it all the more wholesome given a couple of familiar faces from [...]
It was another fortuitous free ticket that got Justina and I into the third concert of MSO’s Metropolis series, Music of Amber, featuring works by two of my all time favourites of contemporary music, Toru Takemitsu and György Ligetti. I was also looking forward to hearing, in keeping with my present enquiries into traditional Turkish [...]
Have some thoughts on the Terminal Quartet performance commissioned for the Growing the Australian Commons Conference, some of which I’d like to incorporate acoustic instruments that are appropriated in real time, in that what each participant contributes is not only a theme as such, but a process for integration of the acoustic qualities of the [...]
I’ve returned to Melbourne’s winter season of music and what an astounding few weeks there will be ahead of me. It’s already begun with Saturday evening’s performance of three works by French composers performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Reibert De Leeuw. This was the second of four concerts in their Metropolis [...]
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