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 […]
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Composer Damien Kingston shares an environmental message through his new release
BY ZOE DOUGLAS-KINGHORN, LEAD WRITER TributaryDamien Kingston Trio (Damien Kingston — guitar, Hamish Houston — bass, Tom Robb — drums)Scratch Match Records, 2019 Three years […]
LIVE REVIEW // Mary Lattimore + Julianna Barwick @ Dark Mofo
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON, GLOBAL SERIES EDITOR Mary Lattimore + Julianna Barwick Dark MofoOdeon Theatre, 23 June What does an electric harp with loop pedals and sound […]
LIVE REVIEW // Riceboy Sleeps @ Dark Mofo
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON, GLOBAL SERIES EDITOR Jónsi + Alex / Riceboy Sleeps Tasmanian Symphony OrchestraDark MofoFederation Concert Hall, 15 June Jónsi Birgisson, frontman of Icelandic ambient group Sigur Rós, and his partner […]
Lotte Betts-Dean will sing of “mortality and sin” at Dark Mofo
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Dark Mofo has grown notorious for its explorations into sex and death, and this week’s concert promises nothing less morbid. Australian mezzo […]
Mary Lattimore will play ambient music on 47 strings
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE What even is ambient music, anyway? Some would consider it music to sink into the background; a kind of atmospheric and calming […]
PHOTOBLOG // Walk with me through Dark Mofo
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Welcome to the darkness. In this photoblog, I take you with me into Hobart’s Dark Mofo 2018 – a winter festival defined […]
Eve Klein invites you inside her Vocal Womb (literally)
BY LAURA BIEMMI When the APRA AMCOS/Australian Music Centre Art Music Fund recipients were announced in April this year, it was noted that two […]
Live review: Dark Chorus @ Dark Mofo
BY THOMAS MISSON Dark Chorus Dark Mofo Theatre Royal, 17 June A dark circle filled the middle of the stage at the Theatre […]
Tilman Robinson and Luke Howard @ Dark Mofo
BY THOMAS MISSON Tilman Robinson and Luke Howard Dark Mofo Federation Concert Hall, 15 June The Federation Concert Hall played host to electro-acoustic artists […]