Breakdown was an interactive audiovisual dance performance at Ears Eyes and Feet in May this year, Austin Texas.
Rodrigo Carvalho, Yago de Quay, Sunny Shen
Computers have shaken up how we create and listen to music, and there is more radical transformation to come. The potential for digital music to be interactive is leading to new ways to experience and…
Maxime Pascal conducts the Argonaut Ensemble at BIFEM.
Jason Tavener
What, one might wonder, is the value of an international festival of exploratory music? And why is it in Bendigo, in north-west Victoria? In Australia, we have so many festivals featuring music, film…
It is the landscape of the interior that is most strongly associated with Sculthorpe’s music.
'Two movements - Peter Sculthorpe', a portrait by Danelle Bergstrom, 2008 Archibald Prize. AAP/ Supplied
Australia’s most distinguished composer Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014) has left a magnificent legacy – his music. Sculthorpe pioneered a uniquely Australian sound. The distinctiveness of his music emerges…
Australia’s most celebrated contemporary composer, Peter Sculthorpe, died on Friday.
AAP Image/Alan Porritt
Peter Sculthorpe passed away at the age of 85 on Friday. As Australia’s best known composer of classical contemporary music, this gives us pause to reflect on the legacy of his music and also upon the…
What does the term “classical music” mean to us in the 21st century?
Scottish classical violinist Nicola Benedetti. AAP/ Dean Lewins
Classical music means more than one thing and explanation is in order. Sometimes I make the distinction between big “C” and little “c”, but even that doesn’t fully solve it. The starting point is this…
Chris Dave seems to have internalised every piece of music he has ever heard.
Photo by Gerard Victor
Jazz has evolved to become one of the most inclusive genres in modern music. But how does an art form that so willingly assimilates influences from different musical styles still hold on to its essence…
The recent exposure of deaf Japanese composer Mamoru Samuragochi as a fraud prompts interesting questions about the attribution of authors to works, the importance of back-story and the reliance we have…
Not everyone can be a superstar – and very few can truly innovate.
Mait Jüriado
Innovation is much sought after in music – by musicians, often, by the federal government, increasingly. But could the pursuit of the slightly nebulous-sounding “innovation” be driving music in the wrong…