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Phoebe Green and Gamelan DanAnda join forces to rehearse Lou Harrisons “Threnody for Carlos Chavez”. Performing 29th and 30th of Jan at La Mama!
Waxing lyrical about Saint Saens dancing in a Tutu for Tchaikovskys amusement
Our amazing singing audience
Zac focusing on spinoff madness.
Dan mastering the contemporary music congas.
Miranda’s concentrate face.
Spinoff! Charles Wuorinen
Anna-Louise singing “Ad Astra” by Sally Whitwell
Anna-Louise Cole and Jennifer Mills performing “ad Astra” by Sally Whitwell
Jennifer Mills
Zoey, Luke and Miranda, bringing in the bass line of “A sort of orbit, (passacaglia)” by Wally Gunn
Jenn Morrish on Vibraphone
Aviva Endean on Clarinets
Laila Engle on flutes
Ben Opie wowing on the oboe.
Phoebe Green on Viola
Luke Paulding on Tuba
Laila Engle
Luke Paulding talking about his composition “her sparkling flesh in a saecular ecstasy”
Matthew Horsely on percussion.
Miranda Hill hitting the high notes.
Aviva and Laila
Wild applause for Luke Paulding and ensemble.
Phoebe Green talking about “the arrival” by David Chisholm
Phoebe Green performing “the arrival” by David Chisholm
Phoebe Green and Dan Richardson performing “the arrival” by David Chisholm.
Mutual applause is the best applause!
Anna-Louise Cole performing “Hat weaving fine” by Naima Fine.
“Hat weaving fine” by Naima Fine.
Ben, Laila, Phoebe, Zachary and Anna-Louise
Laila Engle
Miranda wishing she could be as cool as Ethel Smyth
Miranda reading from Ethel Smyth’s memoirs. Highly recommended!
Anna-Louise and Ben Owen leading the chorus of “the march of the women”
Jennifer, Miranda, Luke and Zoey providing the bass line!
Ben Owen is very serious about feminism.
Anna-Louise, leading the chorus of women (and supporters of women!)
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Miranda Hill
Photos taken by the amazing Ali Hogg.
What a great show! Thanks to all our amazing performers, audience, composers, La Mama, the Early Music Studio, and all the queer pioneers, past and present, who have allowed us to be free to put on ridiculously fabulous shows like this, today.
Luke Paulding
Born in the Middle East and raised in Melbourne, Luke Paulding is swiftly emerging as a prominent voice in Australia’s younger generation of composers.
Luke’s music has been performed and recorded throughout the UK, Ireland, France, the Middle East, Singapore and across much of Australia, by leading musicians and ensembles such as the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, ELISION Ensemble, Speak Percussion, Namascae Lemanic Modern Ensemble (France/Switzerland), ensemble interface(Germany), Aria Co., Quiver and Kupka’s Piano. He has received commissions from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, ELISION Ensemble, Speak, Chamber Made Opera, the Australian National Academy of Music, the Victorian College of the Arts, the Musical Society of Victoria, and his music has featured at the Edinburgh Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne Fringe, Metropolis Festival, Totally Huge New Music Festival and Castlemaine Festival. Also a trained pianist and tubist, Luke is a founding member and co-director of new music ensemble, Quiver, dedicated to innovative performances of contemporary art music.
In addition to composing concert music, Luke is passionate about collaborations with other artists and organisations on theatre, film, mixed-media and experimental art projects, such as the Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Aphids, Theatreworks, and La Mama Theatre. His original music/sound-designs for theatre in particular are highly acclaimed and have attracted several Green Room Award nominations.
Luke has received support from the Australian Council for the Arts, the Cybec Foundation, Besen Family Foundation, IETM (international network for contemporary performing arts) and the Royaumont Foundation (France). His teachers have included Brian Ferneyhough, Liza Lim, Brett Dean, Chris Dench and David Young. Luke is currently a Masters (Research) candidate at the University of Melbourne.
Luke is represented by the Australian Music Centre (http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/paulding-luke)
Artist Julian Maher is widely exhibited both in NZ and in the USA. She gained the Masters in Fine Art with Honours from Auckland University of Technology 2007. In 2003 she as runner up in the Mazda Emerging Artist of New Zealand and for the 5 last years has worked moving between New Zealand and the United States. During this time she participated in a number of Artist in Residence programs and collaborations. Her work is exhibited in galleries both in New Zealand and in the US .
To see her work and last collaboration view online at: http://fe29.com/artwork/
Paul uses a mixture of traditional and digital techniques to create both sound and visual compositions. His music has been reviewed and featured in music magazines throughout Europe, Australia and Japan including ‘The Wire’ magazine. He has performed as a solo artist throughout the UK (as Reverbaphon) and in collaboration (with Box, Novus) . Now living in Auckland, he is a regular participant in the improvising collective Vitamin S, the percussion ensemble ‘fritterhead’ and is a founding member of ‘Plastic Sheep’.
Celeste Oram is an Auckland-based composer, flautist, singer, actor, and director. Her compositions have been performed, recorded and nationally broadcast by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Intrepid Music Project. This year she will be creating a new work for the Song Company, a Sydney-based vocal ensemble. Celeste has a particular interest in composing for theatre: in May 2011, her chamber opera The Electrical Eclipse was premiered at the University of Auckland, and she has scored songs and incidental music for productions ranging from Euripidean tragicomedy to German-language theatre to various Shakespeare plays. In 2012 she completed a BMus(Hons)BA with first-class honours at the University of Auckland, where her recognitions included Douglas Lilburn prizes in composition and performance, and the Douglas Mews composition prize.
3 Shades Black presents Moving Scores as part of the Auckland Fringe.
Friday 22nd of February,
8pm, Mt Eden Village Community Hall.
Cnr Mt Eden Rd and Ngauruhoe St
Entry by Koha.
We will be performing new scores by New Zealand artists, Julian Maher, Celeste Oram, and Paul Smith, alongside works from Australian composers and film makers.
Moving Scores Beijing. Mao Live House.
Performers:
Miranda Hill, Double Bass,
Alisa Willis, Flute,
Yvette Audain, Saxophone,
Paul Smith, Percussion,
Michael Weiss, Cello,
Charmian Keay, Violin,
Sophia Acheson, Viola,
Helen Acheson, Voice,
Donald Nicholls, Clarinet,
Casey Gsell, Bassoon,
3 Shades Black presents Moving Scores; a night of experimental film and music making. New films made by visual artists and composers will be screened and performed as graphic scores by Melbourne’s exciting ensemble of contemporary music specialists.
Moving Scores is taking experimental music notation and putting it in motion. We’ve taken the map and made it a GPS.
Come to the Mt Eden Community Village hall on 22/2 to hear the image and see the music!
While joining film and music is familiar, this blending of scores and film is taking a new and exciting direction in the melding of sometimes disparate creative worlds.
Graphic scores take traditional music notation and remove the rules. The stave lines and clefs have as much meaning as the note heads themselves. These scores, which are art in themselves, are traditionally static images. This show is exploring how the scores and performances will change when the scores are in motion.
John Cage said that ‘music is all around us’ and this project takes that a whole step further. Birds in flight, train tracks, the detail on the back pocket of your jeans, an ultrasound, a sunrise. These are all images we know in one context, and would be given a whole new outlook by being read as a score.
Film makers and Composers have created short moving scores, which will be projected so the audience will be able to see the scores and the ensemble, and see the music as it happens.
Visual artists, Composers and performers have different concepts of “structure”, and the juxtaposition of the art forms will lead to some unexpected interpretations. While the musical approach to each piece is discussed and rehearsed by the ensemble, there is always room for interpretation, and no two performances are the same.
Artists depiction
Alan Lee
Alan is a policy analyst by day and musician by night with bents on the side including graphic design and sustainability.
Trained from a young age in piano and later trombone, he has worked since the mid-90s as an instrumentalist, composer and musical coach with diverse soloists and ensembles from children to adults.
His output includes a chamber opera staged at Melbourne Museum, works performed by Melbourne Symphony, Orchestra Victoria, Duo Sol, Song Company and Speak Percussion as well as film and theatre music. Most recently he staged a concert of Australian music and images in a 14th century Chinese temple as part of the Year of Australian Culture in China.
In addition to a Bachelor of Music, he holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne and an interdisciplinary Masters from ANU. Since 2010 he has been based in Beijing where he works on climate change programs. http://alandavidlee.wordpress.com
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