Interview, Speak Percussion: The music of shells, bells and fluoros

Matthew Lorenzon

Winners of the 2016 Art Music Award for Excellence in Experimental Music commence a concentrated season of concerts this week, first at the Unconformity Festival in Tasmania and then on to Indonesia and Melbourne. Ensemble members describe new compositions and the unusual tools with which both aural and visual magic are made.

Music vs capitalism, ghosts in machines

Angus McPherson: Jon Rose: The Museum Goes Live, Music for a Time of Dysfunction, Part 2

A storm, untouched by theory

Lauren Carroll Harris: Tina Havelock Stevens, Thunderhead

On a need to know basis

Keith Gallasch: Mish Grigor, The Talk

High anxiety, vivid wondering

Keith Gallasch: Nicola Gunn & Jo Lloyd, Mermermer

Artefact liberation

Keith Gallasch: Stiff Gins, The Spirit of Things: The Sound of Objects

The end of the world as we know it

Keith Gallasch: Kristina Chan & Force Majeure, A Faint Existence

Growing choreography in Newcastle

Interviews: Omer Backley-Astrachan, Craig Bary, Propel Residencies

Rituals of another kind

Nikki Heywood: River Lin, River Walk and Cleansing Service

Inside Asia, heart and art

Keith Gallasch: Softmachine, XiaoKe x ZiHan; Rianto

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Jodie McNeilly

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Dancer, research academic and writer Jodie McNeilly likes that writing “lets [her] turn towards the world with acute attention.” Read Jodie’s profile here.

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Erin Brannigan

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Writer and teacher Erin Brannigan’s passionate “motivation in writing about dance and choreography in its many forms is to help it persist into the future.”

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Cleo Mees

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Writer, teacher and video-maker Cleo Mees reflects on music and dance, Bodyweather and writing “that makes surprising associations and confessions…”