Thomas Green: Finding a sound that is my own
BY THOMAS GREEN Thomas Green is the composer of Turbine – Collusion’s latest chamber ballet. It will premiere at MELT Festival on 23 May. Here, Thomas writes […]
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Writing music for my newborn son
BY NAT BARTSCH, COMPOSER I’ve always felt that I don’t easily ‘fit’ in the music industry. For starters, I’m a female pianist and composer who […]
“Do you have perfect pitch?”
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE “Do you have perfect pitch, or just relative?” I am sometimes asked this question, but before I can get into any […]
How do I get work writing music?
BY NATHAN LIOW During my music studies, my piano teacher and mentor Tony Gould once referred to the period immediately following graduation as “a […]
The value of a music industry placement
BY CELINE CHONG Celine Chong is the 2017 CutCommon Young Writer of the Year. Here, she writes a blog about what she’s learnt through […]
How to make the most of your friends
BY ERICA BRAMHAM Ten years ago, I suggested to one of my close musician friends that we should mentor each other. We began meeting […]
GALLERY // The Howling Girls at Carriageworks
BY SAMUEL HODGE Artist Samuel Hodge has spent this week in rehearsals at Carriageworks, in the company of new Sydney Chamber Opera creative collaborators: director Adena […]
Composing the other Mulan: Eli Simic-Prosic
BY ELI SIMIC-PROSIC On November 12, Eli’s work Festivities of Fragment was premiered in Shanghai by Zhang Liang, pipa soloist Xu Jiaxin and the […]
This guy invented his own music notation
BY CORY GLEDHILL In early 2016, I began creating a new music notation that would evolve over the following months into what is now […]
In praise of the eisteddfod volunteer
BY JESS CARRASCALAO HEARD Ding! ‘Competitor number 21 is performing…’ Countless times have I sat in the wings at eisteddfods and sent a fervent, […]