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An exciting, feminist sci- theatrical experience, Mara KORPER is set in a futuristic world where gender is obsolete and the flesh must remain whole.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.
La Mama Courthouse, 349 Drummond Street, Carlton, Melbourne, VIC
Mara KORPER is a sci-fi theatrical experience set in a futuristic world where gender is obsolete and the flesh must remain whole.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. Presented by Citizen Theatre Writer/Director: Jayde Kirchert Composer: Anthony Lyons Music Director: Imogen Cygler Cast includes: Citizen Theatre Company Members Willow Sizer, Freya Pragt, Jack Wunsch, Jordan Barr, Kayla Hamill Photography/Image credit: Stu Brown BOOKINGS: https://www.trybooking.com/book/sessions?eid=515860
$10
Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne, VIC
Turning Circles: In 2019 Syzygy Ensemble celebrates turning 10 and reflects on what it means to turn, grow and change. I'm very honoured to join Syzygy again to play electronics on Tansy Davies work Grind Show. Program details below.Bookings through the Melbourne Recital Centre:
Tansy Davies Grind Show (Electric) Liza Lim The Turning Dance of the Bee Sean Shepherd Lumens Andrew Byrne Ghost in the Machine (world premiere)
$29 (conc.) $39 (Full)
West Projections Festival: Kindred Studios, 3 Harris Street, Yarraville, Melbourne, VIC
A special live performance of improvised music and visuals with spoken word by Klare Lanson, Synth and Field Recordings performed by Anthony Lyons, Visuals and custom musical sink-guitar instrument Paul Fletcher. Also Features special guest " indoor plant" triggering visuals and sounds.
Paul Fletcher, Live generative visuals, video, photos and animation and live sound and noise from custom Sink-tar sound design and noise instrument.
Anthony Lyons, using field recordings gathered from Footscray and surround areas, Buchla synthesiser and other electronics
Klare Lanson, spoken word poetry recorded and processed voice
Two Indoor Plants- will have the last word and trigger their ‘choice’ of notes and generative visuals for the last part of the performance.
Free
Fabric Culture performance, Grainger Museum, Melbourne, VIC
To celebrate the opening of the new exhibition Fabric Culture, there is a special evening of exhibition performances within the galleries of the Grainger Museum. With works and performances by leading academics Anthony Lyons, Paul Fletcher from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne, and students from MCM Interactive Composition and VCA Animation, this event is certainly not to be missed. Performances will begin at 5:30 pm, with the event concluding at 7 pm. All are welcome, and no bookings are required.
Free
Fabric Culture installation, Grainger Museum, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC
Fabric Culture is an interdisciplinary collaboration project, between the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and the Grainger Museum. Through sound and vision, patterns and threads of cultural connection are traced in the exhibition, featuring work by academics and students from the Faculty. Major new commissioned works by Anthony Lyons and Paul Fletcher allow visitors to interact with and be immersed in an audiovisual sculptural space. The exhibition also showcases a new collaborative audiovisual work, "Pattern Loops" recently created by MCM Interactive Composition and VCA Animation students in response to the ideas, patterns and clothing designs of Percy and Ella Grainger.
Free
MainFM, MainFM, Castlemaine, VIC
Tune into MainFM 94.9 and the wonderful show My Own Private Soundtrack to hear about my musical voyage. You can tune in anywhere in the world: TUESDAY 5pm-7pm LISTEN: http://mainfm.net/listen-live/
ICMC-NYCEMF, NYU, New York City, New York
The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) and New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) run together in June 2019 at New York University in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. Thrilled that the audiovisual installation work Complimentary Halves by Anthony Lyons and Paul Fletcher runs throughout the week (June 17-23) as part of this major event!
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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