Sounds Australian No.65

Sounds Australian, Journal of the Australian Music Centre, No. 65 2005

New Music Performance: Struggle and Survival
Edited by Daryl Buckley and James Nightingale

Retail price: $7.70

This edition focuses on new music activity in Australia, providing insight into the current trends and new directions in music creation.

Editorial - New music performance: struggle and survival [Daryl Buckley and James Nightingale]
The politics of survival [Damien Ricketson and Alison Morgan]
In conversation with Daryl Buckley [Daryl Buckley, interviewed by James Nightingale]
The evolving technology of performance in the work of austraLYSIS [Roger Dean and Hazel Smith]
Sustaining flexibility [David Young]
Clocked Out Duo [Vanessa Tomlinson and Erik Griswold]
Diversity as a strategy [Timothy O'Dwyer]
Electrofringe: mutant models and emergent behaviours [Gail Priest]
Sounds in social space: Topology and their audience as a subculture [Jean Burgess]
The 21st Century Performer [Sandy Evans, Daryl Pratt and Margery Smith]
Making ideas into musical form [Martin Kay and James Nightingale]
Mixed salad with anchovies, a perfect ensemble [David Chesworth]
Full transcript of interviews, by James Nightingale, with Sandy Evans, Daryl Pratt and Margery Smith

Red Earth, Tall Poppies TP133. Tall Poppies Ensemble conducted by David Stanhope [reviewed by Adrian Thomas]
Mirrors of Fire, Tall Poppies TP169. Tim Kain - guitar [reviewed by Adrian Walter]
Rabid Bay, Move Records MD3288. Michael Kieran Harvey (piano) [reviewed by Sally Mays]

Sitsky: Conversations with the composer, Jim Cotter. National Library of Australia, 2004 [reviewed by Michael Hooper]
Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia, Peter Dunball-Hall and Chris Gibson. University of NSW Press, 2004 [reviewed by Ian Maxwell]