Halo and Wolfenstein games composer talks ’80s synths and influences
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON FOR LEVEL AND GAIN Tom Salta is an experienced video game composer with the ability to jump between starkly different game and […]
2019
Chris Howlett explains how Beethoven “changed Western music forever”
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON Have you ever liked the idea of a doing a marathon, but your couch remains awfully and conveniently enticing? Fear not, for […]
LIVE REVIEW // Mark sees Lone Hemispheres at Carriageworks
BY MARK BOSCH, LEAD CRITIC Lone HemispheresEnsemble OffspringCarriageworks, 7 November Ensemble Offspring is closing in on the end of another stimulating season of new music […]
EVENTS // The Chamber Project hits up Soultrap Bar
CONTENT COURTESY THE CHAMBER PROJECT Trio. Three formidable players, three centuries of music. Siblings Liisa (violin, ACO) and Jaan (double bass, SSO) team up with […]
Mai Fujisawa is “passionate about bringing various cultures together”
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON WITH STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN If you think of the best-loved cinematic franchises of all time, the worlds of Studio […]
LIVE REVIEW // Mark sees BackStage Music’s Forbidden Things
BY MARK BOSCH, LEAD CRITIC Forbidden ThingsBackStage MusicThe Newsagency, 24 October BackStage has really hit its stride with a tasty and colourful program in Forbidden […]
LIVE REVIEW // Mark sees BackStage Music’s Radio Signals
BY MARK BOSCH, LEAD CRITIC Radio SignalsBackStage MusicThe Newsagency, 17 October BackStage Music has, at last, returned for 2019, with the first of three rapid-fire […]
This music festival taps into secret talent “living behind suburban doors”
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) Richard Gill AO, Australia’s most iconic music educator, believed that all of us have the potential […]
We need to end the “all or nothing” approach to careers in music
BY CHANTAL NGUYEN It was the final minute of the final movement. “All or nothing, now or never!” I thought. The double stops, the breathless […]
Harry Sdraulig: My journey with the TSO Australian Composers’ School
BY HARRY SDRAULIG AS TOLD TO CUTCOMMON The TSO Australian Composers’ School was run with exceptional professionalism from start to finish, and I really felt […]