Digital Pill – working musicians talk about their lives

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 [...]

click here - to add this post - to your social network

Tony Hicks demonstrates the 24 note scale within one octave and plays a free improvisation demonstrating the use of this extended tonality. Visit Tony on these links His bio on the Australian Art Orchestra website Tony’s albums on iTunes Tony also appears on tenor sax in this Digital Pill post

click here - to add this post - to your social network

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

click here - to add this post - to your social network

Peter Knight demonstrates improvised laptop processing of trumpet. Peter is currently researching this area of improvisation as part of a DMA at Queensland Conservatorium. Features live sampling and processing of micro sound worlds created using the trumpet – stretched and squashed with Ableton Live. Listen to Peter’s music here Peter’s solo trumpet project on myspace [...]

click here - to add this post - to your social network