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)
Continue reading...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 Buy their CD
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...5. May 2010
Anthony Schulz plays an improvisation on the stradella and free bass accordion Visit Anthony on myspace here
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...26. February 2010
John Fleming is a singer and instrumentalist who has performed extensively in comedy and theatre internationally and also composes for TV, film and theatre. This song “Icarus Wings” was written for a 2007 Melbourne Fringe show entitled “Stung”, it’s about taking risks and being prepared to fail in order to learn and grow. Download the [...]
Continue reading...10. December 2009
Anita Hustas performs and talks briefly about two graphic scores ‘Stream’ and ‘Underwater’ from her ‘Water’ collection composed in 2008. In trying to find creative approaches to composing and making music, and integrating visual art and music performance, Anita has been creating graphic scores for improvisors since 2003. In this video Anita plays Double Bass [...]
Continue reading...15. November 2009
Percussionist Eugene Ughetti plays an improvised percussion solo on gongs and temple bowls Visit Eugene’s projects on these links Speak Percussion Glass Percussion Project Eugene’s CD is available here
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20. August 2010
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