Vocalist Lisa Young sings and explains examples of konnakol, the spoken rhythms of South Indian music.
download the pdf of the Sa Ri Ga rhythms here
Visit Lisa’s website
And here’s a link to her album Grace (awarded best Australian Jazz Vocal album of the year)
6. August 2010
Above is the new animated logo for the digitalpill.tv LIVE streaming show that begins regular broadcasts this Monday from the Dog Theatre (6.30pm Mon Aug 9th Melbourne time). For people in other timezones, check out the countdown clock in the sidebar (on the right), it lets you know exactly when the next live show goes to air. At that time you can use the + LIVE STREAM + option in the top menu above to view the broadcast.
If you want to find out a little more about the show watch the video below.
For our first show I will be talking to Rebecca Barnard about her work and her life in music.
Don’t worry . . . starting the live show doesn’t mean we will stop posting lessons, performances and ideas from Melbourne musos as we have been for a couple of years now.
Special thanks to Kim Lynch for his great work on the logo.
Leo
16. July 2010
Digital Pill has received funding from ARTS VICTORIA – Victoria Rocks for the 10/11 year. Its greatly appreciated.
For now I’m working with the illustrator/graphic artist Kim Lynch to create a new look for the videos and also investigating the live streaming service make.tv to establish a monthly live forum about the music scene. So this year there will be regular live streaming. Special thanks to Phil Greenwood for all of his advice and assistance on tech and lighting in the past year. And of course thanks to all the musos who have offered their ideas and performances and to all the subscribers.
We’ll be continuing to post a video about once a fortnight.
Incidently we are still looking for further backing so we can get to the point where we can post once a week.
Thanks
Leo
This is a perfect time to offer any suggestions, if you have them.
28. June 2010
Grounded in the traditions of Indian, Javanese and Western classical music Fine Blue Thread are Ria Soemardjo – Voice, Sam Evans – Tabla, Helen Mountfort – Cello. Here they are playing at the Quiet Music Festival
Vist them online
Their website
13. May 2010
It took 14 months for the first 100k hits and only half that time to reach 200,000 hits for Digital Pill. Well that’s progress. So I am upping the video production yet again and currently awaiting delivery of a Canon 550d to do most of the work of the visuals for the site. The videos are about to become a LOT clearer with that blurred background look that everybody loves. Check out my first effort with the Canon here
I put up a couple of videos without telling the subscribers about them (I didn’t want to bother you too often). But you may like to now have a look at Anthony Schulz on the accordion and Leo Dale (me) on the alto flute.
Of those 200,000 hits an amazing 50,000+ came from one incredible video by Dean Hilson – The stratospheric sax gliss. To celebrate the milestone Dean is coming back into the studio to shoot his second video for Digital Pill, stay tuned.
Also worth noting is the great video from Doug DeVries – the Challenge, where he challenges you to learn some chords to accompany him and then to post a video response of yourself doing it. Top marks to Kev who has done an excellent job of the Challenge (have a look at him doing it, below Doug’s video) and he was the first to win THE PRIZE.
I have had tremendous feedback from all the musos for the video – So what do you do for a crust? And I will be following up with some other videos along those lines in the coming months
On a planetary note – Sure the music is cool and hopefully that just about balances out the heat, that the video server must be producing just to keep this site going.
Leo
12. May 2010
Leo Dale – playing solo alto flute in the Musing Studio, where the public draw the musician, at the Quiet Music Festival. Its a free improvisation in an Indian classical / jazz fusion style. The scale used is G lydian ( like G major scale with a raised 4th C# ) In a post modern [...]
5. May 2010
Anthony Schulz plays an improvisation on the stradella and free bass accordion Visit Anthony on myspace here
22. April 2010
You know those conversations you have with people about being a musician or artist: questions like – “So How’s the music going?” and “Are you in a band?” Doug DeVries, Anton Delecca, Shannon Barnett, Mal Webb, Anita Hustas, John Fleming, Colin Hopkins and Justin Dwyer got talking about what follows the question – “So what [...]
16. April 2010
Trombonist Shannon Barnett performs “All and Sun-Dried”, a piece inspired by her hatred for the existence of sun-dried tomatoes. The piece is a kind of etude for trombone that makes use of large intervals and odd-meter phrasing. Visit her online myspace.com/shantrom And hear her on these albums The Vampires: “Chellowdene” and “South Coasting” Andrea Keller [...]
10. February 2009
Afro Mandinko playing a concert in Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne – January 2009. Not only a great dance band in action but also a group who are experts in the science of warming up large crowds to dance, sing and express their inner spirit. Visit Afro Mandinko’s website by clicking here
23. July 2009
ARIA Award winning musician, singer-song writer, theatre collaborator and choir director Kavisha Mazzella sings her song Amour About this song Kavisha writes I saw a fantastic film by Tony Gatlif in 1996 called Latcho Drom about gypsies and thier music and in it there was a scene where the french gypsy musicians visit the medieval [...]
21. August 2009
Rae Howell is a freelance composer and performer on piano & vibraphone. She is a founding member of Sunwrae Ensemble, showcasing some of Australia’s finest versatile musicians. Here she plays her piece “Decipher the Crooked Ways” on the vibraphone using a combination of bowing and four mallet technique. Decipher the Crooked Ways…. an ambient & [...]
14. October 2009
Girish Makwana was born in Gujurat, India and received his Masters of Music from the Maharajah Sayajirao University of Baroda. Here he performs on tablas with Saby Bhattacharya on sarod and Nicolas Buff on alto saxophone. This performance was filmed at the studios of radio 3CR in Collingwood as part of their ongoing training. Follow [...]
19. November 2009
Garry Barker has written a feature article in the Age GREEN GUIDE about Digital Pill and the Louie Prez CD launch. Below is some info about the new Louie Prez album with Leo Dale, Ray Pereira and Doug DeVries. Sample the first track – The Phantom – in this youtube clip Visit Louie Prez online [...]
18. January 2010
Doug DeVries lays down – the Challenge – Can you learn this chord sequence and then use it to accompany Doug playing the melody in the video. Then video yourself doing it and post it as a video response on youtube? No clues provided. You are equipped only with your ear as a compass and [...]
24. March 2010
I’m experimenting with Vimeo. If anyone has problems with it or comments please send me an email Catch pianist Colin Hopkins at home where he uses all his improvisatory skills in an attempt to revive the wooden man – his only remaining audience member (besides the dog) – and finds the job a little more [...]
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20. August 2010
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