Digital Pill – working musicians talk about their lives

Valanga Khoza at home singing and playing the Kalimba (thumb piano)

Listen to more of Valanga playing kalimba and singing on iTunes

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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 have a look at Ray’s percussion lesson filmed for Digital Pill

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Dean looks at long notes from several different angles – the growl, vibrato, dynamics and ear training.

Listen to Dean’s music here

The Pearly Shells

Zydeco Jump

The Vanguards

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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 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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As part of my constant striving for technical excellence on the coalface of the ever changing digital learning curve, I am now recording sound separately. This presents me with the opportunity to mix the sound in my studio and general tweak the levels at leisure.
This video of Helen Mountfort represents my first effort at post sync sound.
In my mind, it’s a vast improvement.

The site is now focussing on 3 main areas:
1. Lessons which are VERY popular
2. Recordings of musician’s performances in their own homes
3. Digital Pill LIVE streaming on the second Monday of every month
(see the countdown clock in the sidebar for the timing of the next show)
The LIVE show is where the learning curve is the steepest and the technology is moving fastest. Slowly I am building a crew around me for this important work and I have an incredible line up for October’s LIVE show. Stay tuned . . .

Leo

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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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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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