A live networked improvisation by the Isolation Improvisation Collective. Please join us this Sunday on the IIC You Tube channel as we lift above the confines of lockdown and find ways to connect, share and make. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQX7dy99JhIDcjyMLCejV-w
The Avalon, DOWNSTAIRS Avalon, 18 Katoomba St,, Katoomba, NSW
To Be RESCHEDULED due to covid
Please Join us downstairs at the Avalon in Katoomba as part of the very special 'Afternoon Delights' Series. "With most of the shows SOLD OUT it's a top tip to BOOK EARLY if you hope to attend some of these intimate events. Our bottom line guarantee of return is in the rich experiences. Every week we are treated to some of the finest music this country has to offer."
1st Set - Night Diver A solo music project of Cellist Emily Williams. The music is immersive, melodic, soundscapes and meditative drones with her main instrument at the centre, augmented by sampled sounds of percussive glass, steel and kinetic toys.
2nd Set - Au Revoir Hands: Electronic new classical duo with Anthony Lyons and Emily Williams. Incorporating cello, buchla music easel synth, beats and samples they explore the worlds of experimental ambient pop and post-minimal electronics. Their music is richly textured and sonically unique with fragments, clicks and cuts sitting alongside effected cello and analog synth lines. They bring a raw expressiveness and live energy to their sound as they move between electronic atmospheres to driving rhythms made of loops, samples & glitched-out drum machines.
$35
An exciting, feminist sci-fi theatrical experience, MARA KORPER is set in a futuristic world where gender is obsolete and the flesh must remain whole.
This brilliant and terrifying new theatrical work explores themes of extremism, gender and body image in a dystopian future, picking up where Orwell and Huxley left off.
Fusing experimental sound and technology with absurdist expressionism, MARA KORPER is on the cutting edge of experimental feminist theatre.
Written & Directed by: Jayde Kirchert Composer: Anthony Lyons
Tickets and further details: https://www.theatreworks.org.au/program/mara-korper/
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Melbourne Connect Hub, Corner Grattan and Swanston Streets, Carlton, VIC, 3053, Melbourne
How might digital instrument collections influence the future of music and sound-making?
The Grainger Museum is transforming historically rare and unique instruments into interactive and playable virtual instruments. The Living Instruments project – a collaboration with the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and Melbourne eResearch Group, School of Computing & Information Systems – involves mapping real instruments (by sampling their sound) to new tactile digital interfaces that anyone can use.
During this official launch of the Living Instruments digital platform, learn about the preservation practices and cultural value of the Grainger Museum’s remarkable musical instrument collection. Experts who have contributed to the project will share insights about playing, composing and curating the instruments, through to research and software development.
After the discussion, discover and interact with the playable virtual instruments first-hand. Speakers: Dr Anthony Lyons, Dr Heather Gaunt, Abdul Rehman Mohammad
Free
The music of the V/line train and Calder Fwy trip, once so familiar yet made almost a memory in the events of 2020, will be brought back to life in a live performance of new music for piano, cello and electronics. Featuring pianist Josh Cohen who has garnered millions of YouTube views for his meditative and highly improvised approach to playing will be joined by Sydney based cellist Emily Williams and electronic composers and Newstead sound producers Aimee Chapman and Anthony Lyons in a mesmerising musical observation of Coming Home
The Isolation Improvisation Collective (IIC) invites you to a live-streamed, multi-disciplinary event comprising musicians, artists, dancers, poets, animators and other creatives with a shared passion for innovation and experimentation. Formed in a direct response to the COVID-19-imposed lockdown, the group has met regularly over the past months to explore the possibility of community and cooperation online, developing new tools, methods and a shared improvisational vocabulary.
During this interactive event, you’ll be invited to re-think the limitations and possibilities of online collaboration, playing with the idiosyncrasies of the virtual—such as lag-times and glitch—as creative parameters, rather than barriers to communication. With the performance hinging on a spontaneous dialogue between participants, each performer’s contribution to the piece will allow them to re-connect with other members of the collective. The result will be a totally unique work—something increasingly rare in this age of documentation and digital reproduction—and a re-defining of what ‘live’ performance can mean in a virtual space.
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Museum of Lisbon, Portugal (available online), Lisbon, Portugal
Anthony Lyons giving a presentation (now virtual) for the 13th International Conference on The Inclusive Museum. The presentation is titled 'Composing the Museum' and looks at the process of engaging with Melbourne's Grainger Museum to sample Percy Grainger's unique tuned-percussion collection to make new digital Grainger instruments for creative use and expanded access. This talk specifically discusses the Living Instruments project and the process of digitally preserving the sound of the fragile Grainger instrument collection and presenting a way of transforming the relationship between musical artefacts/objects and their cultural value with a diverse group of people including contemporary makers. In 'Composing the Museum', creativity and the making of new work are situated as centrally important to linking the past, present, and future of museum collections.
Included with the release of this fascinating album is the piece 'Piombino' by Anthony Lyons which is part of a collection of compositions built from field recordings of the global Covid-19 lockdown. Assembled for the #StayHomeSounds project by Cities and Memory, in which artists reflected on the lockdown and reimagine its sounds. You can listen/purchase the album at: https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/remixing-the-global-lockdown
The Isolation Improvisation Collective joins the Make it Up Club this coming week!
The Make it up Club has been presenting weekly curated experimental, improvised, and avant-garde music and sound happenings in Melbourne since 1998.
Tune in Tuesday evening at 8pm AEST for a curated YouTube concert of improvised and experimental music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnnWQcs_U9LqNurutqRyxjQ
THIS WEEK: Miranda Hill + Alice Bennett Shane Van Den Akker Clinton Green Isolation Improvisation Collective
You can support the performers by making a donation to makeitupclub@gmail.com via paypal or by visiting paypal.me/makeitupclub Recommended $5/$10 donation, similar to previous MIUC live concerts.
An exciting, feminist sci- theatrical experience, Mara KORPER is set in a futuristic world where gender is obsolete and the flesh must remain whole. Written and Directed by Jayde Kirchert Music and Sounds by Anthony Lyons
This brilliant and terrifying new theatrical work explores themes of extremism, gender and body image in a dystopian future, picking up where Orwell and Huxley left off.
Fusing experimental sound and technology with absurdist expressionism, Mara KORPER is on the cutting edge of experimental feminist theatre.
12th - 22nd May (2021) - Mara Korper - Theatre Works, St. Kilda, Melbourne.
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29th April (2021) - Living Instruments: preserving old and rare instruments by creating their digital twins - A presentation for Melbourne Knowledge Week, Melbourne Connect Hub, Science Gallery.
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27th February (2021) - Coming Home - Audiovisual performance at the Phee Broadway Theatre, Castlemaine.
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2nd December (2020) - MPavilion performance - Isolation Improvisation Collective
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16th November (2020) - Telematic Music - Isolation Improvisation Collective (IIC) album & book release. Available through 'Nice Music' here.
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3-5 Sept. (2020) - International Conference on the Inclusive Museum - Presentation 'Composing the Museum', Lisbon, Portugal - delivered virtually.
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10th July (2020) - StayHomeSounds Remixing the global lockdown - Album release w/ Cities and Memory, Oxford, UK. Get album here
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2nd June (2020) - Make it up Club w/ Islolation Improvisation Collective, Online Concert #11
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9th November (2019) - Mara KORPER @ La Mamma Courthouse, Carlton, Melbourne.
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26th September (2019) - Turning Circles, performance with Syzygy Ensemble, @ Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne.
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15th August (2019) - Home is Inside Us, West Projections Festival, Performance @ Kindred Studios, Melbourne.
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1st August (2019) - Fabric Culture exhibition performance @ Grainger Museum, Melbourne.
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1st July (2019) - Space is the Place project launch @ Cities and Memory, Oxford, UK.
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16th-23rd June (2019) - New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival & International Computer Music Conference - Audiovisual Installation work 'Complementary Halves' shown at NYU, New York City, United States.
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9th May (2019) - How it Plays: Innovations in Percussion - exhibition opening. Exhibition continues at the Grainger Museum until Dec. 2019, Melbourne, Australia.
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27th November (2018) - Porto/Post/Doc Film & Media Festival screenings of the audiovisual work Dreams of Plants (Lyons/Fletcher), Porto Planetarium, Porto, Portugal.
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26th November (2018) - Sounding Nature - launch of Cities and Memory project of recorded and re-imagined sounds of the natural world including Traces, Patterns, Calls (A.Lyons). Oxford, UK.
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14th November (2018) - IMPA TV - Anthony Lyons & Emily Williams - Live at Islington Mill Attic video recording released. Watch here.
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26th September (2018) iMPA TV - live video performance Anthony Lyons and Emily Williams, Manchester, UK.
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10th September (2018) iC Sing on the Cake - new work & performance, buchla easel and electronics, Melba Hall, University of Melbourne.
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9th September (2018) Monuments - synth performance with the New Music Studio, Melba Hall, University of Melbourne.
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5th July (2018) Narratives of Climate Change Short Film Exhibition, Newcastle, Australia.
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4th July (2018) Jibber Jabber Sound Club, CASPA Castlemaine - performance on Buchla Music Easel.
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24th May (2018) 12th FullDome Festival, Zeiss-Planetarium, Jenna, Germany.
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16th May (2018) Synthi 100 Live - globally streamed performance on the EMS Synthi 100, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
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10th May (2018) Pagan Dances - with Syzygy Ensemble - Melbourne Recital Centre.
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28th April (2018) Small and Loud - The Channel, The Arts Centre, Melbourne.
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1st-6th Dec. (2017) Matera Intermedia Festival - audiovisual, electroacoustic and digital arts festival, Matera, Italy.
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29th Nov. (2017) Abstract Heterotopias - Melbourne Planetarium, Spotswood.
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10th-12th Nov. (2017) Sound-Image Colloquium: Exploring Audiovisual Practice, University of Greenwich, London.
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28th Oct. (2017) Resonating Spaces: Rarotonga Reimagined - performance and installation at Punanga Nui, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
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7th Oct. (2017) Node 0: Lounge Beats - performance event at Grant Street Theatre, Melbourne.
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7th & 8th September (2017) Reconfiguring Orpheus - performance at the Meat Market, North Melbourne.
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18th August (2017) Sound and Image of Future Landscape - An installation exhibition, opening at the On-Air Gallery, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.
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17th August (2017) Sound, Design and Animation - a talk given at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.
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2nd August (2017) Synthi 100 - In Concert, performance at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank, Melbourne.
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27th July (2017) Percy Grainger: Freedom as_, with Liquid Architecture, sound sculpture installation @ Grainger Museum, Melbourne.
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9th June (2017) Sounding Out Love: Art of Emotion - published in the Australian Research Council's Blog for the Histories of Emotion.
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27th May (2017) Love Remixed - Grant Street Theatre, Southbank, Melbourne
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30th April (2017) Elbow Room Concert - Wesley Anne, Melbourne.
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26th April (2017) Melbourne Masterclass: Objects, Sounds and Stories of Love. Forum Theatre, University of Melbourne.
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8th March (2017) Sacred Spaces Album Launch. Album available here
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13th February (2017) Sacred Spaces Project Launch @ Cities and Memory. Oxford, UK.
http://citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces/
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14th September (2016) CO+LAB performance @ Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.
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9th June (2016) CHE blog: 'An Engagement with the Emotional Life of Objects exhibition', published here.
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26th May (2016) Node 0: The Beats Project, performance @ Lionel's Lounge / Grant Street Theatre, Southbank.
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11-14 May (2016) The Emotional Life of Objects, exhibition & new audio works. George Paton Gallery. Melbourne.
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30th April (2016) Resonance FM 104.4 (UK) broadcast of the Prison Songs project. London.
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25th April (2016) Prison Songs launch with Cities and Memory. Oxford, UK.
www.citiesandmemory.com/projects/prisonsongs/
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28th Feb. (2016) Move Records CD Launch, with Michael Kieran Harvey. Eaglemont, Melbourne.
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5th Feb. (2016) Cities and Memory: Dada Sounds launch. Oxford, UK.
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23-24th Jan. (2016) Tilde New Music Festival - performance and installation, Arts Centre, Testing Grounds, AIM, Melbourne.
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21st Nov. (2015) Elbow Room Concert, Wesley Anne, Melbourne.
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17th Oct. (2015) Zèppelin Festival. Electroacoustic Concert, Ravel Hall - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.
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17th Oct. (2015) Punanga Nui Market installation & performance. Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
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16th Oct. (2015) Zèppelin Festival. Exposició Sonora, Theatre Hall - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.
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25th July (2015) Melbourne Composers Concert Series, Victorian Flute Guild, MLC, Kew.
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22nd May (2015) Node Zero (0.1) Concert, The HUB, VCA, University of Melbourne.
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12th April (2015) Elbow Room Concert, MCL, Montslavat.
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20th March (2015) DDCA Symposium. The Outstanding Field: Artistic Research. Federation Hall, Melbourne.
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24th Jan. (2015) Tilde New Music Festival.
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16th Nov. Songs from my Suitcase. Kew Court House concert.
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2nd Nov. Bleedthrough Concert. Oratory, Abbotsford.
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17th Oct. NODE Zero concert, Southbank, Melbourne
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9th-11th July. ACMC 60x60 Concert. VCA Federation Hall, Melbourne.
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17th Nov. 4ZZZ Brisbane. Broadcast of Amy Tinderbox's radio piece exploring collaborative processes behind the Pure Poetry Project
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9th Nov. Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC. Pure Poetry Project concert
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13th Oct. osh10 CD launch at the Empress, Melbourne
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12th Aug. Performance of Trace Elements I-II for piano/electronics with Michael Kieran Harvey at the State Theatre Centre, Perth, WA (ICMC/Totally Huge New Music Festival)
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28th Feb. Tinderbox Radio - live to air Ballarat
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24th Jan. Strings recording with osh10 at Atlantis Sound
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1-8 Dec. Bach/Lyons recording, Copenhagen, Denmark
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29 Nov. Performance of solo cello works at the Malaysian Composers Concert Series, Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, Malaysia
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8-30 Nov. Residency at La Muse, Labastide, France
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30 Sept. Astra Spring Piano Series, Concert #1, Fitzroy, Melbourne
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6-17 Sept. Japan Tour
7th Sept. Headpower, Shinjuku, Tokyo
8th Sept. Waver, Nishi-Ogikubo, Tokyo
9th Sept. Fushimi, Nagoya
12th Sept. Urbanguild, Kyoto
13th Sept. Vi-code, Osaka
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19-23 July. W.A Tour with osh10
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29 March. Atlantis Studios. String Quartet recording
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23-27 Feb. Lifschitz/Lyons piano recording
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16th Jan. Featured composer on the the 'Australian Sounds' program on Radio 3MBS FM
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26th Sept. The Bach/Lyons Project perform @ Literaturhaus, Copenhagen
Compositions and collaborations between Anthony Lyons and Anders Bach were performed beautifully by the musicians of the Bach/Lyons Project at Literaturhaus, Copenhagen - a very special evening!
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19th Sept. @ Melbourne Recital Centre new work for orchestra premiered
The premiere of Quelques Cercles for orchestra went really well at the Melbourne Recital Centre. Conductor Michael Thomas did a great job preparing the orchestra for the night which also included works by Bartok and de Falla.
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