Life is tougher than ever in 2022, but help is available to arts workers
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Hope has taken many forms throughout the pandemic. There’s been a feeling that restrictions are only temporary; that live music will return […]
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Teaching music online in the pandemic has yielded creative surprises, like mixing ‘Blob Opera’ and beatboxing
BY ROBBIE MACKAY, QUEENS UNIVERSITY, ONTARIO, THE CONVERSATION Learning to make music is a full mind-and-body activity. Whether teaching how to play a musical instrument, […]
How Pedro Bromfman composed Far Cry 6
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON WITH STEPHANIE ESLAKE Pedro Bromfman is not a gamer. Sure, as a kid he played a bit of Nintendo and Atari. But […]
ANAM is connecting its musicians and donors like family
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Jannie Brown’s family has long been connected to music. Her great-great uncle was William Henry Dow, one of Australia’s leading instrument makers […]
Sophie Hutchings creates “room to breathe” in anxious times
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When an artist is streamed more than 29 million times, it tells you something about what listeners are craving right now. And […]
This new Australian opera is about how opera portrays women
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Women have long been subjected to violence in the name of entertainment. The problem is particularly rife in opera, where characters are […]
Kyla Matsuura-Miller: “You can’t be what you can’t see”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE On 25 November, Kyla Matsuura-Miller shared a story. From the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall stage, the violinist spoke to her listeners about […]
Could this new fantasy book get your music students practising?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Let’s be honest. All your 12-year-old music student really wants to play is the theme to their favourite movie. (And that movie […]
Victor Arul’s new music explores the idea of “modern”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE What is a modern composition? There’s no solid answer, and the term itself has a transient feel: things once considered modern can […]
Sarah Elise Thompson’s debut album is an intimate self-portrait
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Take one look at Sarah Elise Thompson’s portfolio, and you’ll see a list of names that’ll leave you feeling awestruck. Deborah Cheetham. […]