Here’s a clip I’ve just found of the Invenio singers performing SexMagikDeath from Barney McAll’s most recent release GRAFT, at the Stonnington Jazz Festival earlier this year. Working with Barney as one of the singers was an incredible experience; I learned a lot from this experience.
Here’s a letter I wrote published in today’s Opinion section of The Age, Wednesday 23/05/2012. It’s about the popular TV show The Voice and its possible link with our social values regarding to mastery of singing/ music.
In a brief excerpt of his lecture at the Kennedy Centre, Kurt Elling offers advice to aspiring singers on the steps necessary to finding their own unique ‘sound’ as singers and musicians. Elling is a brilliant example of what happens when you persevere with this illustrious challenge, which simultaneously demands the endless refinement of vocal…
I stumbled across this NY Times article by Charles Duhigg on the murky, multimillion-dollar retailer practice of collecting shoppers’ data. The focus of the article is on how this data is used to influence shoppers’ buying habits, with an interesting insight into habits – something we’re constantly trying to develop as musicians. “One study from Duke…
I’m currently working on composition and sound design for “She’s a Little Finch,” written by Elise Hearst and directed by Jacquelin Low. Diego Villalta is collaborating with me; our voice and guitar-based score is largely improvised and electronically effected. From the MKA website: “Josie has found a bird and she wants to keep it. It’s…