Composing under lockdown: Audrey Ormella
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Composition is often described as a solitary activity. And although it’s a process that can indeed be undertaken in isolation, things get […]
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Composing under lockdown: Jamie Moffatt
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Composition is often described as a solitary activity. And although it’s a process that can indeed be undertaken in isolation, things get […]
Catherine Likhuta: Scraps from a Madman’s Diary
BY CATHERINE LIKHUTA AND STEPHANIE ESLAKE One evening in 2006, Catherine Likhuta read Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol’s short story Diary of a Madman. Born […]
Alice Chance and AJ America talk wild women
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE What composition throughout history do you feel has represented women wildly, absurdly, accurately, or powerfully? We pose the question to two […]
Trump’s misogyny set to music by Robert Davidson
BY THOMAS MISSON Donald Trump’s thoughts on women have attracted all manner of satire in the media – be it on TV, YouTube, or […]
Sampology: when bird songs meet the turntable
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Brisbane audio-visual artist Sam Poggioli (Sampology) grew up surrounded by modern sounds. His brother had turntables and their older cousins ran […]
QSO: Dropping the beat with Tom Thum and Gordon Hamilton
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE They drank wine. They travelled to Puerto Galera. They wrote some stuff. Now they’re back, and you can hear the culmination […]
Young artists join forces in QSOCurrent Festival
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The Queensland Symphony Orchestra today announces the QSOCurrent festival – and we’re super excited. Moving away from tradition and convention, the […]
Live Review: Tom Thum meets QSO in ‘Thum Prints’
BY ANDREW MESSENGER ‘Thum Prints: a concerto contradiction for beatbox and orchestra’ by Gordon Hamilton, world premiere Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Tom Thum Powerhouse, Newfarm, 16 […]
Ghosts in the Orchestra: Gordon Hamilton
BY ANDREW MESSENGER The Australian Voices are a very distinctive a’capella choir. You know them when you hear them. Gordon Hamilton has been their […]