Camelot, October 27 Sound and colour, the arts’ great abstractions, are inextricably linked. Even the terminology overlaps, including tone, chromaticism, brightness, darkness and composition. As Jim Moginie (of Midnight Oil fame) told us in prefacing this album launch, Schoenberg wanted to be an artist and Kandinsky a musician. Countless musicians…
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Paddington Uniting Church, October 17 Influences are more like friends than relations, in that you can choose who they are. They might come from New York or Delhi, from yesterday or 500 years ago, but a certain logic pertains to considering those close to home. In his first Paths and…
Lounge Suite Tango (Armchair) Despite the shared suffix can any two instruments be more dissimilar than the sousaphone and vibraphone? The former suggests some lumbering earth god and the latter is all flitting notes and air. That both happily cohabit in the Umbrellas says much about this little orchestra and…