How to make the most of your friends
BY ERICA BRAMHAM Ten years ago, I suggested to one of my close musician friends that we should mentor each other. We began meeting […]
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GALLERY // The Howling Girls at Carriageworks
BY SAMUEL HODGE Artist Samuel Hodge has spent this week in rehearsals at Carriageworks, in the company of new Sydney Chamber Opera creative collaborators: director Adena […]
Composing the other Mulan: Eli Simic-Prosic
BY ELI SIMIC-PROSIC On November 12, Eli’s work Festivities of Fragment was premiered in Shanghai by Zhang Liang, pipa soloist Xu Jiaxin and the […]
This guy invented his own music notation
BY CORY GLEDHILL In early 2016, I began creating a new music notation that would evolve over the following months into what is now […]
In praise of the eisteddfod volunteer
BY JESS CARRASCALAO HEARD Ding! ‘Competitor number 21 is performing…’ Countless times have I sat in the wings at eisteddfods and sent a fervent, […]
What I learnt writing a piece a day (for a year)
BY ERICA BRAMHAM Last year, I embarked on an ambitious project to compose, record, and share a new piece of music every day for […]
Whose ears are you listening with?
BY JODIE BLACKSHAW, COMPOSER In my first year of university, my composition teacher Larry Sitsky introduced me to the inimitable composer Harry Partch. Partch had his own set […]
Am I really creative?
BY SCOTT MCINTYRE, COMPOSER “Right now, it’s only a notion, but I think I can… make it into a concept, and then later, turn […]
How do you find great music?
BY ANTONIA ZAPPIA Nothing beats that newly discovered melody or harmony you find while poring endlessly over late-night study. It is the instance of […]
My journey into music therapy: India
BY NATASHA LIN After a 14-hour train ride, I had arrived at Varanasi from Kolkata. Looking back, it’s been an inspiring journey, full of […]