Digital Pill – working musicians talk about their lives

Helen Mountfort performs Soliloquy a solo ‘cello piece originally written and performed in Swift, a dance piece devised and performed with dancer Ros Warby and designer Margie Medlin. Soliloquy is inspired by and pays homage to the music of extraordinary Armenian composer and duduk player Djivan Gasparyan. Helen writes music for film, dance and theatre and composes and performs with three Melbourne bands.

Visit Helen’s bands
My Friend the Chocolate Cake
Fine Blue Thread
Cosmo Cosmolino

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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

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And here’s a link to her album Grace (awarded best Australian Jazz Vocal album of the year)

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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 challenging than he first anticipated! Never the less, this unusual, spontaneous and yet surprisingly melodic journey remains worthy of a listen by those of us still living…

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