New public lecture series commences this year at the Con. Entitled Inside Music, these intimate presentations by Conservatorium lecturers and guest artists invite the audience to explore what happens ‘behind the scenes’ as musicians prepare prepare their work. From 11 Mar 2009 in the Queensland Conservatorium's Ian Hanger Recital Hall, comes these thoughts from Gerardo Dirié:
Gerardo Dirié is currently Head of Music Studies at the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane, Australia.
He has been active in bringing Latin American music to a wider audience, not only through his work as composer and educator, but also as Assistant Director of Indiana University's Latin American Music Center, first under the direction of Venezuelan composer Ricardo Lorenz, and currently directed by Venezuelan conductor Dr. Carmen Téllez. He assists orchestras, soloists, ensembles and scholars from around the world in programming and studying Latin American music. For more about Gerardo and contact information, see www.gerardodirie.net
06 April 2009
15 March 2009
Playing for Change
I came across this wonderful video, a kind of remix of street musicians-meets web2. See what you think?
Turns out this is from a series by an organisation, Playing For Change: Peace Through Music, the first of many songs around the world being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic "Stand By Me by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe:
Can't help but notice though, no activity yet in the Oceania region. Hope we may be able to get involved in Australia, in music, the arts and the Asia Pacific. Terrific project.
Turns out this is from a series by an organisation, Playing For Change: Peace Through Music, the first of many songs around the world being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic "Stand By Me by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe:
21 January 2009
And so to 2009 . .
Just back from some leave spent in beautiful New Zealand.
Some more pics here at mobile me, New Zealand North Island: Bay of Islands, Auckland, Napier, Gisborne, Rotrua, Copthorne.
Upcoming concerts calendar:
Greatly looking forward to Jeff Beck touring Australia after a very long absence. He's in Brisbane next week (29 January), accompanied by wonderful musicians, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, David Sancious on keyboards and the sensational young Australian bassist, Tal Wilkenfeld.
In February, Grammy Award winning pianist-composer-bandleader Chick Corea and guitarist John McLaughlin tour Australia and New Zealand - joining forces for the first time, I believe, since they were both members of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew era band over forty years ago. Playing music with Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and Vinne Colaiuta, the Chick Corea and John McLaughlin Five Peace Band should be amazing. Unfortunately, not coming to Brisbane, but at the Sydney Opera house, on 20 February.
Have a good year, everyone!
Some more pics here at mobile me, New Zealand North Island: Bay of Islands, Auckland, Napier, Gisborne, Rotrua, Copthorne.Upcoming concerts calendar:
Greatly looking forward to Jeff Beck touring Australia after a very long absence. He's in Brisbane next week (29 January), accompanied by wonderful musicians, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, David Sancious on keyboards and the sensational young Australian bassist, Tal Wilkenfeld.
In February, Grammy Award winning pianist-composer-bandleader Chick Corea and guitarist John McLaughlin tour Australia and New Zealand - joining forces for the first time, I believe, since they were both members of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew era band over forty years ago. Playing music with Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and Vinne Colaiuta, the Chick Corea and John McLaughlin Five Peace Band should be amazing. Unfortunately, not coming to Brisbane, but at the Sydney Opera house, on 20 February.
Have a good year, everyone!
11 December 2008
CreateWorld 2008
Back in Australia now, and into CreateWorld 2008, the Australian national digital arts conference, hosted by the Apple University Consortium (AUC) and Griffith University. Now in its third year, the 2008 conference must have been the most successful, with a terrific attendance and a wide range of panels, papers, keynotes, performances and podcast program.
Some of the highlights for me were the various performance /talk events, including some stunning music-scored-to-speech patterns from Brisbane's Topology ensemble . . .
. . and some engaging VJ work from Adelaide's Luke Toop, featuring Apple's Quartz Composer software tools.
AUC chair, Denis Antionelle opens the conference.
Some of the highlights for me were the various performance /talk events, including some stunning music-scored-to-speech patterns from Brisbane's Topology ensemble . . .
. . and some engaging VJ work from Adelaide's Luke Toop, featuring Apple's Quartz Composer software tools.
There were also a good range of academic papers and session presentations. Stephen Emmerson and I presented some of our recent recording work in IMERSD around our paper on Music, Recording and the Art of Interpretation (see earlier blog entry). Great fun to try to squeeze that many people into a recording studio control room!
A Podcast Team (Allan Carrington, Kate Foy, Cat Hope and Ian Green) were cruising the conference, audio recorders in hand, gathering short interviews to help better understand the conference themes in their broader context, and to tease out their implications for learning, teaching, research and creative performance in higher education.
A Podcast Team (Allan Carrington, Kate Foy, Cat Hope and Ian Green) were cruising the conference, audio recorders in hand, gathering short interviews to help better understand the conference themes in their broader context, and to tease out their implications for learning, teaching, research and creative performance in higher education.
The podcast program from CreateWorld 2008 is available at createworld2008.edublogs.org.
Look out for the final series of refereed papers in the conference proceedings, to be published shortly on the Create World 2008 site. Thanks everyone, for a great conference.
Look out for the final series of refereed papers in the conference proceedings, to be published shortly on the Create World 2008 site. Thanks everyone, for a great conference.
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