Damien
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Composer and academic at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. www.curiousnoise.com
What do you get when you mix up final-year students from classical, contemporary, composition, jazz & digital music degrees and give them free rein to make whatever they want? Come find out this weekend in a festival of diverse new music at the Syd Con
boxoffice-music.sydney.edu.au/tiny/NewCrea...
11 days ago
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Installation created with Diana Chester and Fausto Brusamolino open 10am-5pm for the next 10 days in a shipping container as part of the New Annual festival in Newcastle.
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Listen to a Starfish : Diana Chester & Damien Ricketson
Step into another world - lie down, close your eyes and listen to a starfish. Using field recordings from Newcastleās shore and rock pools, this sensory sound installation will help you hear and feel ...
https://newannual.com/explore/events/listen-to-a-starfish
about 1 month ago
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Seismograf has just released an interesting batch of audio-papers on āSound and the More-Than-Human Worldsā including something from Diana Chester and I. Listen below.
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Sound and the More-Than-Human Worlds
19 audio papers on sound, technology, and listening beyond the human
https://seismograf.org/fokus/sound-and-more-human-worlds
about 1 month ago
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New Music Ensemble tomorrow (Fri 19 Sept). Works by Paul Stanhope, Bree van Reyk, Liza Lim, Alex Maltas & Matthew Hindson, conducted by Sam Weller. Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium. Info & tickets:
bit.ly/scmnmeperfor...
about 1 month ago
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30 years ago today, a bunch of music students took to stage as part of the Sydney Spring Festival in what was to become Ensemble Offspring. At the 25-year mark I wrote an extended piece about the organisationās history and the environment that shaped it. Still going strong 30 years on.
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Ensemble Offspring: Twenty-Five Years of Making New Music in Australia ā Curious Noise - Damien Ricketson
The following article was written in 2020 on the 25th anniversary of Ensemble Offspring. Introduction Ensemble Offspring: Twenty-Five Years of Making New Music in Australia outlines the contrib...
https://curiousnoise.com/words/2023/1/17/ensemble-offspring-twenty-five-years-of-making-new-music-in-australia
about 2 months ago
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Presenting a sensory sound installation and paper at the Colloquium on Artistic Research in the Performing Arts in Helsinki. Deep listening room with surround sound and vibrating benches opening today.
www.uniarts.fi/en/colloquiu...
2 months ago
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Mid creative development
2 months ago
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Surrounded by composers following Syd Symph Fellows gig at the Con. [Photo: Liza Lim]
4 months ago
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New work 'Castles Made of Sand' premiering with the SSO Fellows 7pm 4th July. Imagine a mash of Ravel, Hendrix and a field recording of the ocean. In a program celebrating the Syd Con curated by Liza Lim. Info & tix:Ā
bit.ly/ssofellowssc...
4 months ago
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Lovely story about Nancy Bates heading into Syd Conservatorium New Music Ensemble performance this Thu 7pm
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Nancy Bates: Healing Spirit
We all have healing to do, says Indigenous composer and songwriter Nancy Bates ā and music gives us the means and the method.
https://limelight-arts.com.au/features/nancy-bates-healing-spirit/
7 months ago
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āSongs of Healingā featuring music by Nancy Bates & Tim Gray. 7pm Thu 17 April @ Syd Con. Culmination of Indigenous Artists-in-Residence project involving Nancy, Tim & students across the Conās composition, classical performance, contemporary & jazz degrees. Info & tickets:
bit.ly/SCMEME2-170425
7 months ago
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The creative team from Nazri after gifting their audience with wondrous sounds. Another intriguing show from Shervin Mirzeinali.
9 months ago
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Energetic, intimate, uplifting & fun. Aurora at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney.
9 months ago
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A day of collaborative songwriting with Nancy Bates & Tim Gray as part of their residency at the Syd Con.
9 months ago
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Recent family timeout for two significant bdays and an anniversary.
9 months ago
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Migrating from Facebook to Bluesky in hope of a more positive social media experience. Looking for music, art, culture, quality news and a bit of satire to fill my feed in case anyone has recommendations.
9 months ago
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