Digital Pill – working musicians talk about their lives

Tinpan Orange performing “Saudades” at the Quiet Music Festival 2010. Emily Lubitz – vocal and guitar, Jesse Lubitz- guitar and Alex Burkoy – violin with Harry Angus on keyboard (off camera) You can visit their website tinpanorange.com and buy this song on iTunes

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Doug performs ‘Lamentos do morro’ by Garoto, a samba on his 7-string guitar. Visit Doug on these links His website dougdevries.com Doug’s albums on iTunes

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This video is a recording of the interview with Ray Pereira streamed live on 11/10/10. The opening sequence is Ray’s two sons Lucky on drums and Mali on piano For the timing of the next live stream see the countdown clock in the sidebar > Find out about Ray’s projects and workshops Ray’s website Or [...]

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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 [...]

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

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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 [...]

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Ever wondered how much music practice you are actually doing in between all of life’s distractions. In this short video Leo Dale talks about using a countdown clock to keep your eyes and ears on the practice of music.

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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

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Anthony Schulz plays an improvisation on the stradella and free bass accordion Visit Anthony on myspace here

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