Foundry 616, November 6 8.5/10 Remember when music exploded with the shock of the new? It was miraculous that sound could be so thrilling, moving, mind-expanding and even life-defining. But, inevitably, the older you grew and the more you heard, the harder it was to replicate that feeling – at…
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Camelot Lounge, October 27 9/10 This is how cultural treasures survive: because people care enough to ensure they do. A book of compositions by the late Australian music pioneer Kim Sanders was exactly the sort of project the Australia Council should be supporting, rather than propping up bureaucracy-obese companies with…
City Recital Hall, October 18 6/10 The idea was enticing. Take the 15th-century Japanese writer Zeami Motokiyo’s concept of the seven ages of the artist, and depict them in music while incorporating taiko-style drumming. Three of Zeami’s “seven flowers”, as he calls these ages, are clustered in childhood, three between…