Digital Pill – working musicians talk about their lives

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 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

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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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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 Quartet “Angels and Rascals”

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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 words to this song here

Visit John’s website
www.johncf.com.au

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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 and Waterphone.

Find out more about Anita’s work here
anitahustas.com
myspace.com/anitahustas

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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

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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 here

The album tracks are on iTunes

BUY the Louie Prez CD – SCAM – here

CDs are also available NOW instore at JB HiFi – Readings Carlton and Basement Discs as well as in any other store in Australia or New Zealand through our distributor the Planet Company

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