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The Orpheus Remix Awards

The Orpheus Remix Awards are awards for new 4-minute musico-dramatic works for radio to be launched on-air and online on 1 & 2 December on both ABC Radio National’s The Night Air (Sundays, 8.35pm) and ABC Classic FM’s New Music Up Late (Saturdays, 10.30pm).

It is 400 years since the premiere of the world’s first acknowledged opera, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. To celebrate, the ABC is inviting works that respond to both the Orpheus myth and the notion of ‘opera’, in the form of original 4-minute works for radio. If successful, the compositions will be heard on ABC Radio National and ABC Classic FM, and available for download from ABC Online.

This is a chance to explore the idea of opera within the musically and sonically diverse context of contemporary radio and audio technology in a shockingly succinct 4 minutes. It’s a chance to delve into the Orpheus myth, with all its resonances regarding the power of music, love, and a journey into the underworld.

As a starting point, the ABC is providing five samples from the original L’Orfeo by Monteverdi (sampled with permission from the ABC Classics recording of Pinchgut Opera’s 2004 performances in Sydney*). These are available for re-mix as part of the creation of the new works. Each entrant must use at least one of these samples.

The ABC has commissioned 6 experienced artists: Damien Barbeler, Constantine Koukias, Dave Noyze & Sarah Last, Pateras & Fox, Gail Priest, and Amanda Stewart to make their own 4-minute Orpheus Remixes as a stimulus. These 6 works are available on the Orpheus Remix website for download.

There are 3 Orpheus Remix Awards on offer:

• The Night Air Choice Award
• The New Music Up Late Choice Award
• The Listeners’ Choice Award (chosen through online voting)

The Award-winning entrants will each receive a paid commission to make a longer musico-dramatic work for radio in consultation with ABC Radio producers.

From 1 December visit www.abc.net.au/orpheus for more information and to upload entries.

Entries for the awards close on 31 January 2008.

Presented by Jon Rose
“Listening to history: some proposals for reclaiming the practice of music”
Presented by New Music Network

Date: Monday 3 December, 6pm
Where: THE MINT, 10 Macquarie St Sydney
FREE. Bookings essential ph: T 02 8239 2211 (limited numbers)
Performance by improviser Dale Gorfinkel

For over 30 years, Jon Rose has been at the sharp end of experimental, new and improvised music. The 2007 address will look for positive models, forgotten notions, and unorthodox praxis that have entertained and given meaning to the lives of Australians over the last 200 years but which have never entered, or been allowed to enter, the canon of imported mainstream music making. Jon will suggest that only when we start to investigate and value our own extraordinary musical culture, will the cultural cringe stop defining what constitutes music on this continent.

The Address will also include a Book/DVD Launch of Post Impressions: A Travel Guide for Tragic Intellectuals by Hollis Taylor. Hollis is Jon’s wife and collaborator.

The New Music Network established the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address in 1999 in honour of one of Australia’s great international composers. It is an annual forum for ideas relating to the creation and performance of Australian music. In the spirit of the great Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, an outstanding advocate of Australian music delivers the address each year, challenging the status quo and raising issues of importance in new music.

Supported by Historic Houses Trust, Arts NSW, ABC Radio National and ABC Classic FM.

www.newmmusicnetwork.com.au

Launching LPs by xNoBBQx , The
Spiders, + a 7″ by Ultra Violet MC (although not out
yet)

xNoBBQx
The Spiders (B Mtns)
Ultra Violet MC (Melb)
UnAustralians (Melb)
Sun of the Seventh Sister (B Mtns)
DJ Beefcurtains

@the MAndarin Club
cnr of Pitt and Goulburn st, city
8pm $10

http://pulledout.org

“Sphere of Influence�
an interactive ball game by
Jon Rose

Aku Kadogo – the human ball video
Robin Fox – Max MSP/Jitter
Hollis Taylor – violin obligato
The Song Company – sung samples
Katia Molino – ball performer
Victoria Hunt – ball performer
Jon Rose – interactive 2.4 meter ball design & concept

Performances
Wednesday 21 November at 19.15
Fri 23, Sat 24, & Sun 25 at 14.00 and 16.00

Installation (come and play ball)
21-25 November

entrance free

more info

http://www.jonroseweb.com/f_projects_ball.html

 Maroubra Bunkers. starts 3pm. free!

Since the 2^nd World War the army bunkers at Maroubra/Malabar Headlands have been abandoned and left largely for the graffiti artists and casual walkers. The complex of concrete rooms, underground tunnels and stairways has an eerie and mysterious quality. Silence and darkness takes the place of what would have been a well-occupied defence base during the war. The site will no doubt form an exciting setting for the Splinter Orchestra. The group will spread themselves throughout the building and explore its reverberant qualities. Listener is encouraged to explore the music as well the fascinating surroundings at their own leisure.