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DVD: Colour Theory with Richard Bell
Leading Indigenous artist and provocateur Richard Bell is your amiable host for this excellent series from director James Marshall, producers Susan Moylan-Coombs and Jane Davidson and writer Hetti Perkins. The episodes are wonderfully unhurried, allowing artists to speak for themselves, for the viewer to absorb the art works and, critically, appreciate the country from which they evolved. The selection of innovative artists takes us into film and installation (Warwick Thornton, a wonderful episode, largely filmed in Alice Springs), street art (Reko Rennie), painting-photography (Nici Cumpston), stage design (Jacob Nash and the evolution of Bangarra’s Terrain), painting and sculpture (Tony Albert), sculpture and music (Archie Moore), weaving and sculpture (Vicky West) and exquisite glass sculpture (Yhonnie Scarce).
5 copies of Colour Theory courtesy of Madman Entertainment
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Platform Papers, No 35: Jon Rose, The Music of Place: Reclaiming a practice
This essay comprises a bracing alternative view of the history and nature of Australian music, underpinning an argument for the greater recognition and appreciation, aesthetically and in terms of financial reward, of Australian musicians. In his review of the essay, Julian Knowles writes, “Rose’s approach…closely resembles his prolific and influential musical output. His arguments demonstrate a lateral, creative form of thinking that challenges traditional understandings of history, culture and genre, resulting in a provocative collision of ideas out of which a powerful logic emerges” (see page 48).
3 copies courtesy of Currency House
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New Music Network: NMN 2013 CD Sampler
The 2013 NMN promotional 2CD set features vivid live and studio recordings of new and improvised works from 27 network members around Australia. You’re in for some surprises with radical gearshifts in tone and pace from track to track, bracing contrasts in instrumentation and works that range from fierce to reflective. The performers are some of the best exponents of Australian new music: austraLYSIS, Chamber Made Opera, Chronology Arts, Clocked Out, Continuum Sax, David Chesworth Ensemble, Decibel, Lawrence English with Aphids, Ensemble Offspring, Fat Rain Music, Halcyon, Kammer Ensemble, The Noise Quartet, West Head Project, The Song Company, Soundstream Collective, Speak Percussion, Sunwrae Ensemble, Synergy Percussion and Topology.
5 copies courtesy of New Music Network
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RealTime issue #116 Aug-Sept 2013 pg. 56
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