Earworms: Top 10 irritating classical compositions
BY CUTCOMMON Ever listened to a piece that you couldn’t get out of your head for days, months, even years? So have we. And we’ve […]
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Kelly Ottaway: The Modern Operative
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE For Kelly Ottaway, jazz is about freedom.“I see jazz and its common links in music as a non-violent tool to stick […]
Opinion: New Doesn’t Start or End with Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll
BY SAM GILLIES During a break at work, I came across an opinion piece that lamented the commercialisation of rebellion in contemporary music. The […]
Explained: Obscure Musical Terminology
BY ANDREW MESSENGER I remember once, in my brief career as a trombonist, playing a bit of music based on Dante’s Inferno. At the climax of […]
Becoming Pro: Tips from the Top
Sam Gillies talks with some of Australia’s top musicians about what it takes to go from being a student to a professional.Recently, I was stuck […]
Key to Jazz: Tom Vincent
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE If there’s one style that’s stayed timelessly cool since it first hit the clubs, it’s gotta be jazz. Australian pianist and composer […]
Network of Lines: Tilman Robinson Talks Debut
BY SAM GILLIES Melbourne-based composer, trombonist and sound artist Tilman Robinson doesn’t restrict himself to one style. Having performed (and premiered) a diverse range […]
A master pianist: Freddy Kempf
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Freddy Kempf isn’t your everyday pianist. While most of us spent our childhood learning how to read and write, Freddy was off […]
Tait of All Trades
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Skilled craftsmen have long been praised for their abilities to create high quality objects with their bare hands. Although commercial mass production […]
25 Words Or Less
BY ANDREW MESSENGER, GABRIELLE RUTTICO, AND SAM GILLIESEver wondered what it’d be like to grab a program at a gig and actually get through it, […]