Live review: Sleeping Beauty @ Dark Mofo
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Sleeping Beauty (Dark Mofo) Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Victorian Opera Theatre Royal, 10 June What’d you miss? Creepy puppets Skillful […]
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Live review: Silence @ Dark Mofo
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Silence (Dark Mofo) Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra strings Federation Concert Hall, 28 June Not clapping during classical music […]
Music and Art to Light Up the Lane
If you find yourself in Hobart this month and want to see a whole bunch of young people making crazy art, get on this. Light […]
Seven songs, seven weeks in Iceland with Olafur Arnalds
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Seven songs. Seven Iceland towns. Seven weeks. This is Olafur Arnalds’ offering Island Songs. The musician embarked on a journey across his homeland, […]
Mofo #4: Experiencing music tech at the festival
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Music technology at Mona Foma Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, 21 January The Glass Elevator: Chimera π As I […]
Reza Safinia: juggling genre in film music
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON What do Nicolas Cage, Kylie Minogue, and Beethoven have in common? Reza Safinia, that’s what. The London-raised, Los Angeles-based composer recently […]