The Sound of One Penny Dropping
BY CAMPBELL BANKS The eyes gave him away. They’re hidden on the back wall of the hall, in amongst the cartographic wood panelling of […]
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A love letter from Beethoven
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE [AND BEETHOVEN] Be cheerful – remain my true, my only treasure, my all as I am yours. Pretty romantic, right? Beethoven […]
Best sci-fi flute works of all time
BY ANGUS MCPHERSON The Cabinet of Oddities is a show combining fiction, flutes and fantasy. Premiered at the speculative fiction convention Conflux (which happened to […]
Sascha Kelly on why Moneypenny is gold
BY SASCHA KELLY Moneypenny is not my idea. It’s been an amalgamation of several concepts that friends of mine have suggested. Justina Lui was […]
Nostalgia Ascending
BY CAMPBELL BANKS Lark Ascending Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Richard Tognetti Hamer Hall, 20 August After seeing the program for this Melbourne Symphony […]
Photoblog: Rubiks’ Kaylie and Tamara in Darmstadt
BY TAMARA KOHLER Kaylie and Tamara from Rubiks take on the 48th International Summer Course for New Music, Darmstadt. You can see Rubiks present songbirdsongs in […]
Kane Moroney: My journey into classical music
BY KANE MORONEY I remember the catalyst well – the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the Melbourne Town Hall. I would have been about 14 […]
At what point do we stop emerging?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE I’ve been wondering something lately, and I don’t think I’m alone. What does it mean to be an ‘emerging’ artist? And when […]
Film scoring in 5 steps with Nicholas Marks
BY NICHOLAS MARKS Melbourne composer Nicholas Marks studied at Monash and has had his film scores appear at Tropfest, the Kah Bang International Film Festival, […]
Hey you, dishwasher heart
BY CAMPBELL BANKS At the back of a stage dense with seated bodies, a man in fancy dress wanders sheepishly, paper in hand. He […]