Game and anime music: not as niche as you’d think
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE VIA LEVEL AND GAIN Think screen music is niche? Perhaps something reserved for new audiences, or performed for die-hard gamers or anime […]
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Writer-musicians bring the latest from Australia’s classical and new music scene
Catherine Strong’s research shows “very huge” risk of music workers leaving the industry
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE With an influx of digital concerts and transitions into online music lessons, it can feel like we are living in a “new […]
Watch the world premiere of Wesley Stormer’s new music clip
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Wesley Stormer grew up in Mount Riverview, a suburb of the picturesque Blue Mountains. He went on to study composition at Western […]
My arts career during COVID-19: Elli Welsh, pianist
BY JUANITA SIMMONDS We’d like to give a warm welcome to Juanita in her first story as a CutCommon contributor! As Australian musicians have done […]
Facebook banned Australian arts media. Here’s what you can do to keep up
FROM THE CUTCOMMON TEAM Here at CutCommon, we woke to the devastating news on Thursday morning that our publication — as with all Australian media […]
How Musica Viva is supporting Australia’s arts industry from the inside
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE As an industry, we’ve grown familiar with a situation no musician or concertgoer ever wants to face: the cancellation. In the past […]
How Paul Stanhope’s Requiem evolved into a celebration of life
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A requiem is a mass for the dead. But through the music of composer Paul Stanhope, the medium may be better described […]
Could your favourite film score have been composed by your local councillor?
BY LIAM HEITMANN-RYCE Artists can undergo an entire evolutionary cycle of job roles throughout the course of their film career, in front of and behind […]
A new study is confronting the “sexualisation of Australia’s classical musicians”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Does the classical music industry do its best to promote gender equality? It’s certainly a topic that weighs heavily on the minds […]
Daniel Todd: Mental health sounds like…
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) Sydney musician and charity worker Jessie Wang is a mental health advocate and studies psychology at […]