CCME: ELISION & Kupka’s Piano: Electric guitar takes lead

Oh to be in Cleveland, Brisbane, for CCME, a music event that features concerts by ELISION and Kupka's Piano, ensembles foregrounding electric guitar in works that are visceral and...

Keith Gallasch

25 October 2017

ELISION ensemble: a bold 30-year adventure

Matthew Lorenzon: interview, Daryl Buckley

Matthew Lorenzon

31 August 2016

elision: musical gaming

greg hooper tunes in at qmf

Greg Hooper

1 October 2007

Kaz Therese’s Sleeplessness: Art and trauma

A courageous and emotionally exacting creation, fusing personal recollection and night-time delirium, Sleeplessness climaxes in a moment of remarkable transformation, as it confronts the tragedy of intergenerational trauma.

Keith Gallasch

10 November 2022

Extended Play 2019: Expansive music

Bracing and embracing, Extended Play’s 12-hour festival of new music featured, among many others, Margaret Leng Tan, Decibel, Nonsemble, Alex Waite, Synergy and Sonya Lifschitz in dynamic partnership with...

Keith Gallasch

12 October 2019

Edited Highlights: The RealTime years

Ranging across 20 years of reviewing for RealTime, Greg Hooper selects his best opening gambits and endings, recalls the art that thrilled and did not, being shy with artists,...

Greg Hooper

8 October 2018

Great Extended Play: now for the long play!

A new midday to midnight festival of experimental music filled every space of City Recital Hall, rewarding the curious and the committed with superb performances from ELISION, Ensemble Offspring,...

Keith Gallasch

8 September 2018

CCME: Lawrence English: Visceral listening

For the Cleveland Contemporary Music Event Lawrence English will share Viento: Blizzards of Antarctica and Beyond, a texturally rich aural buffeting that he says will open up fascinating associations...

Keith Gallasch

1 November 2017

Editorial 25 October 2017

In one of Proximity Festival's one-on-one performances reviewed this week, artist Cigdem Aydemir (image above) takes a participant on an unexpected studio-shoot spin on a Harley Davidson. It's that...

25 October 2017

Art Music Awards 2017: Experimentation rewarded

The 2017 APRA-AMCOS and Australian Music Centre Art Music Awards and bravura performances celebrate experimentation.

Keith Gallasch

29 August 2017

The dead arise, play and dance

Zoe Barker: ELISION/ANAM, Machine for Contacting the Dead

Zoe Barker

21 September 2016

BIFEM 2016’s unprecedented scale and vision

Matthew Lorenzon: festival overview

Matthew Lorenzon

21 September 2016

The ensemble as organism

Madeline Roycroft: ELISION ensemble, The Wreck of Former Boundaries, How Forests Think

Madeline Roycroft

14 September 2016

On the precipice

Bec Scully: ELISION/ANAM, Enno Poppe, Speicher

Bec Scully

14 September 2016

Exploratory music on a high in Bendigo

Matthew Lorenzon: interview, David Chisholm, BIFEM 2016

Matthew Lorenzon

3 August 2016

The city as problem and solution

Matthew Lorenzon: Metropolis New Music Festival, Music of the City

Matthew Lorenzon

1 June 2016

Between evasion and overload

Ben Brooker: The Country; Deluge

Ben Brooker

16 March 2016

The future with an ear to the past

Matthew Lorenzon: Totally Huge New Music Festival

Matthew Lorenzon

16 August 2015

The many-voiced cello of an Australo-German repertoire

Matthew Lorenzon: Totally Huge New Music Festival: Friedrich Gauwerky

Matthew Lorenzon

22 May 2015

Highs & hopes

To kick off 2015 we’ve asked RealTime contributors for a little recap of 2014—what, thrilled, challenged, inspired or knocked their critical socks off. They also let us know what...

RealTime

4 February 2015

The other side of Nightfall: Margaret Cameron & Ian Scott

Virginia Baxter

12 November 2014

Speak Percussion

Mickrophonie I, Transducer, Speak Percussion, THNMF2013 photo Brad Serls Mickrophonie I, Transducer, Speak Percussion, THNMF2013 Audiences for New Music cannot be taken for granted in Australia; you have to...

Matthew Lorenzon

2 July 2014

RealTime: the first 10 years

From our 2004 10th birthday edition

Keith Gallasch & Virginia Baxter

9 June 2014

True cause to celebrate

Keith Gallasch: John Zorn: Zorn in Oz

Keith Gallasch

22 April 2014

New music, making the earth move

Chris Reid: Tectonics

Chris Reid

22 April 2014

Making meaning as you journey

Matthew Lorenzon: Liza Lim, Metropolis New Music Festival

Matthew Lorenzon

24 February 2014

Epics, legacies and continuities

Keith Gallasch: David Sefton, 2014 Adelaide Festival

Keith Gallasch

9 December 2013

The real thing

Keith Gallasch: Lisa Havilah, Carriageworks 2014 Program

Keith Gallasch

9 December 2013

the body in the instrument

greg hooper: elision, crossbows festival

Greg Hooper

10 August 2012

Contributor profile: Greg Hooper

Greg Hooper, ballooning in Goreme, Turkey Bio I was born in Adelaide in 1957. Grew up there. I love that my children won't have to do that, be in...

Greg Hooper

22 May 2012

opening up the terra incognita of experimental film

danni zuvela: the ubu and garry shead films on dvd

Danni Zuvela

21 February 2012

Contributor profile: Chris Reid

Chris Reid photo courtesy of the author Chris Reid Bio As an undergraduate in South Australia, I studied Political Science and History and have made a 30-year career in...

Chris Reid

26 July 2011

realtime 101: what next—2011?

over 90 artists tell what's in store in 101 words

RealTime

1 February 2011

networking the new

keith gallasch: the new music network

Keith Gallasch

12 October 2010

dancing through trauma

jemima kemp: katrina lazaroff’s pomona road

Jemima Kemp

14 June 2010

soundcapsule #1

december 2009

RealTime

18 December 2009

the emotional body

keith gallasch: the 2010 adelaide festival, performance

Keith Gallasch

10 December 2009

music like speech

chris reid: elision in session, melbourne

Chris Reid

8 October 2009

composed spontaneity

greg hooper: stockhausen: a message from sirius

Greg Hooper

1 June 2009

the mask speaks

carl nilsson-polias: the wooster group, akram khan & juliette binoche

Carl Nilsson-Polias

1 April 2009

unravelling terror

tony macgregor: the baader meinhof complex, festival of german film

Tony MacGregor

1 April 2009

musical miracles

greg hooper: elision, heliocentric

Greg Hooper

1 December 2008

infinite othernesses

douglas leonard: liza lim’s the navigator, brisbane festival

Douglas Leonard

1 October 2008

energy in flux, change in motion

jemima kemp: soft power— asian video art at cacsa

Jemima Kemp

1 August 2008

fugue of the senses, geometry of desire

doug leonard talks to liza lim about her new opera for the brisbane festival

1 June 2008

flying high, and under the radar

the 2008 brisbane festival’s theatrical riches

RealTime

1 June 2008

paper theatre, uncertain memories

meg walker sees the linear animal in vancouver

Meg Walker

1 June 2008

dance film: spiritual odyssey

keith gallasch talks with the makers of thursday’s fictions

Keith Gallasch

1 August 2007

lessons in hyper-virtuosity

chris reid witnesses the musical mastery of elision

Chris Reid

1 August 2007

ghosts of hamlets past

tony macgregor experiences the wooster group magic

Tony MacGregor

1 June 2007

Regenerative inversions

Douglas Leonard

1 October 2006

Mother tongue, birthday song

Keith Gallasch at Elision’s 20th birthday concert

Keith Gallasch

1 August 2006

Something for everyone, and more

Jeremy Eccles on Lyndon Terracini’s big picture Brisbane Festival

Jeremy Eccles

1 June 2006

The rich yield of the law of the minimum

Artistic director Daryl Buckley talks to Keith Gallasch

Keith Gallasch

1 June 2006

Music and mountains

Greg Hooper

1 October 2005

Music as art, community, politics

Keith Gallasch talks with Lyndon Terracini

Keith Gallasch

1 June 2005

Compute & compose

“In an age where everyone’s got a laptop what are the implications for the computer as musical instrument?”, asks the 2005 Australian Computer Music Conference. To find out, be...

RealTime

1 June 2005

Image, music, ambiguity

Rachel Campbell

1 June 2005

Wilson on Wilson, many on Cohen

Keith Gallasch

1 April 2005

Collective imagination: et al.

Simon Rees

1 October 2004

Breaking the doco mould

Dan Edwards

1 October 2004

The next move?

Michael Hooper

1 October 2004

Singapore plays its own tune

Keith Gallasch

1 August 2004

RealTime is 10! From the Editors

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Virginia Baxter & Keith Gallasch

1 June 2004

The darkness that yields light

Keith Gallasch

1 February 2004

Interactive re-futuring

Keith Gallasch talks to Keith Armstrong

Keith Gallasch

1 February 2004

Seeds, particles, resonances

Keith Gallasch

1 December 2003

New music wins!

Keith Gallasch

1 December 2003

Welcome challenges, desired seductions

Keith Gallasch

1 December 2003

The documentary unleashed

Simon Enticknap

1 October 2003

The documentary unleashed

Simon Enticknap talks to SBSi's Marie Thomas

Simon Enticknap

1 October 2003

Playing hard: team playing

Harriet Cunningham

1 August 2003

Justine Cooper: new media alchemist

Keith Gallasch emails Justine Cooper in New York

Keith Gallasch

1 June 2003

Expanding the cultural universe

Keith Gallasch

1 June 2003

The musical state

Keith Gallasch

1 June 2003

Fine tuning the market

Harriet Cunningham

1 April 2003

Early music, contemporary performance

RealTime

1 April 2003

Into the festival of fire

Sarah Miller & Josephine Wilson

1 April 2003

On the go: Australians performing internationally

Keith Gallasch

1 February 2003

Public art, river dreams

Keith Gallasch talks to Zane Trow

Keith Gallasch

1 February 2003

Liza Lim: instrumental imaginings

Richard Wilding

1 December 2002

New music in Sydney: a lively corpse?

Harriet Cunningham

1 December 2002

Melbourne Festival: local heroes

Keith Gallasch talks with Robyn Archer

Keith Gallasch

1 October 2002

Abandon Sight Ye Who Enter Here

Keith Armstrong on Inferno

Keith Armstrong

1 October 2002

Being, not performing

RealTime talks with Zane Trow

RealTime

1 August 2002

Avant-garde plus and minus

Greg Hooper

1 June 2002

Totally Huge: landscape/soundscape

Andrew Beck

1 April 2002

RT47 Editorial – Synchronicities: terror, art & politics

Keith Gallasch

1 February 2002

The grand push and pull of dark matter

Keith Gallasch

1 December 2001

Dream complex

Keith Gallasch

1 December 2001

Dark Matter between Australia and Norway

Daryl Buckley talks to Keith Gallasch

Keith Gallasch

1 October 2001

MAAP01: new media in excess

Kim Machan talks to Keith Gallasch

Keith Gallasch

1 October 2001

Arterial Group: the big charge

Keith Gallasch

1 October 2001

Power music

Keith Gallasch

1 October 2001

QBFM review excerpts

Loops & Topology, Australian Art Orchestra, Australian Art Orchestra, Anumadutchi, ELISION, Orkest de Volharding, Lisa Moore, Michael Kieran Harvey, Paul Grabowsky

Greg Hooper & Jim Chapman & Richard Wilding & Robert Davidson & Simon Hewett & Lynette Lancini & Mitch Cunningham

1 October 2001

Woman on the verge

Melissa Madden Gray, actor, singer, dancer, choreographer

1 October 2001

RT talk

Grease—The Mega Stoush/h5> On our Post page, Zane Trow spits chips at the Australia Council’s controversial funding, as he sees it, to assist a commercial entrepreneur’s audience development. He...

RealTime

1 August 2001