“Our sexuality is no inhibition to our music making”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When your first performance of a program is a sell-out, and you receive a donation of funds to record an album based […]
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Harpist Emily Granger has filled her solo album with new Australian music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Harpist Emily Granger knew exactly what she wanted on her debut solo album — and it’s probably not what you’d expect. The […]
My arts career during COVID: Katie Yap, Wattleseed Ensemble
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The entire nature of our industry has shifted. Living and working through the pandemic, Australia’s musicians have been forced to rethink their […]
The new Hush album is “pure comfort” for mothers and carers
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Kate Miller-Heidke describes The Healing Tree as “pure comfort”. The idea for this single swirled in her mind when, before the pandemic, […]
Caitlin Yeo on scoring “bold, inventive, brave” ABC series Wakefield
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Australian composer Caitlin Yeo has been nominated for two 2021 APRA AGSC Screen Music Awards. In Wakefield (Best Music for a Television […]
This new orchestra will serve the 2.5 million people of Greater Western Sydney
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE February 21 was a special day for Greater Western Sydney. The region, home to one in every 11 Australians, has opened its […]
How this collective will “give oxygen” to diverse creative voices
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE I’d like to preface this interview with a quote from its subject, opera singer and educator Daniel Szesiong Todd 鄭時雄: There is […]
Passing the mic // An interview with composer Gabrielle Cadenhead
BY LILY BRYANT, SERIES CURATOR Welcome to a brand new year of amazing Australian artists, and a brand new year of Passing the Mic. I […]
Composer Jodi Rose is making music out of architecture
BY CAMERON LAM, APRA AMCOS Composer Jodi Rose’s ambitious Singing Bridges project is an urban sonic sculpture playing the cables of bridges as musical instruments. Through the sound of vibrations […]
The Quoll delivers a “strange elegy to the end of the world”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE As I prepared for this interview, a bushfire raged across the north west of lutruwita/Tasmania. At 99 hectares, the Tullah flames served […]