The New North Podcast

Part 4

A conversation between Catherine Lamb and Steven Socha. Part 4 of 4.

Recorded in May/June 2024.

Music:

01:23:57 - Muto Infinitas (2016)

https://www.sacredrealism.org/artists/catherine-lamb/

Spiral image from ‘The Harmonic Series as a Logarithmic Spiral’ by Erv Wilson (March 1, 1965).
Accessed from The Wilson Archives at https://www.anaphoria.com/harm-subharm.pdf.
Included, with gratitude, for non-commercial purposes.

New North’s activities are made possible by the generous support of Creative Australia and Arts Merri-Bek

Part 3

A conversation between Catherine Lamb and Steven Socha. Part 3 of 4.

Recorded in May/June 2024.

Music:

00:20:08 - Mirror (2006)

00:24:44 - Muto Infinitas (2016)

https://www.sacredrealism.org/artists/catherine-lamb/

Spiral image from ‘The Harmonic Series as a Logarithmic Spiral’ by Erv Wilson (March 1, 1965).
Accessed from The Wilson Archives at https://www.anaphoria.com/harm-subharm.pdf.
Included, with gratitude, for non-commercial purposes.

New North’s activities are made possible by the generous support of Creative Australia and Arts Merri-Bek

Part 2

A conversation between Catherine Lamb and Steven Socha. Part 2 of 4.

Recorded in May/June 2024.

Music:

00:48:00 - Shade/Gradient (2012)

01:02:13 - Divisio Spiralis - X (2019)

01:08:28 - Curva Triangulus (2018/2021)

01:11:38 - Point/Wave (2015)

https://www.sacredrealism.org/artists/catherine-lamb/

Spiral image from ‘The Harmonic Series as a Logarithmic Spiral’ by Erv Wilson (March 1, 1965).
Accessed from The Wilson Archives at https://www.anaphoria.com/harm-subharm.pdf.
Included, with gratitude, for non-commercial purposes.

New North’s activities are made possible by the generous support of Creative Australia and Arts Merri-Bek

Part 1

A conversation between Catherine Lamb and Steven Socha. Part 1 of 4.

Recorded in May/June 2024.

Music:

00:00:00 - Divisio Spiralis - X (2019)

https://www.sacredrealism.org/artists/catherine-lamb/

Spiral image from ‘The Harmonic Series as a Logarithmic Spiral’ by Erv Wilson (March 1, 1965).
Accessed from The Wilson Archives at https://www.anaphoria.com/harm-subharm.pdf.
Included, with gratitude, for non-commercial purposes.

New North’s activities are made possible by the generous support of Creative Australia and Arts Merri-Bek

This is Ep.19 of 'The New North Podcast', which does a deep dive into the unique ideas and approaches that make Melbourne's exploratory music scene so rich and varied.

In this episode, we share another fascinating artist talk, this time presented by James Rushford in June 2024. James is an artist with an expansive musical imagination and an incredible talent for creating evocative, surprising and atmospheric performances and recordings using electronic and acoustic means. As a composer and performer, his work draws on concrete, improvised, avant-garde and collagist musical languages.

The intro music to this episode is excerpted from ‘Fallaway Whisk” and the outro music is ‘Quire III’. Both works are released on Turzets (Blank Forms Editions, 2024):

https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/album/turzets

The first musical excerpt referred to in the talk was from a piece titled ‘Bluebeards' from the album Block Gifts (2022), a collection of works for portative organ composed between 2015 and 2018. 

https://jamesrushford.bandcamp.com/track/bluebeards

The second example discussed by James is from his piano work 'See the Welter', which was released in 2020 together with Federico Mompou’s Musica Callada, which Rushford’s work responds to. 

https://jamesrushford.bandcamp.com/album/m-sica-callada-see-the-welter

New North’s activities are made possible by the generous support of Creative Australia and Arts Merri-Bek.

This is Ep.18 of 'The New North Podcast', which does a deep dive into the unique ideas and approaches that make Melbourne's exploratory music scene so rich and varied.

In this episode, we share an artist talk presented in April 2024 by Narrm raised double bassist, composer and keyboardist Jon Heilbron. Jon unpacks the role of microtonality and non-tempered tuning systems in various phrases of his musical output. Throughout the presentation, Jon refers to musical examples, some of which can be accessed at the links below. 

 

Alvin Lucier - Still Lives: V. Two Floor Tiles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFAYR1msB6A

 

Arches: Fredrik Rasten/Jon Heilbron

https://inexhaustibleeditions.bandcamp.com/album/with-all-your-mysteries-in-the-open-air

 

Muto Infinitas - Catherine Lamb (performed by Rebecca Land and Jon Heilbron)

https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/muto-infinitas

 

New North’s activities are made possible by the generous support of Creative Australia and Arts Merri-Bek

This is Ep.17 of 'The New North Podcast', which does a deep dive into the unique ideas and approaches that make Melbourne's exploratory music scene so rich and varied.

In this episode, Dale Gorfinkel and Aviva Endean discuss their duo collaboration with a focus on their performance at New North's Concert 6 in August 2022. They describe their unique instrumentation of air drums and extended contrabass clarinet and the subtle amalgamation of low frequencies made possible by this unique combination. Watch their performance here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI2gxRYPW3o

New North’s activities are made possible by the generous support of Creative Australia and Arts Merri-Bek

This is Ep.16 of 'The New North Podcast', which does a deep dive into the unique ideas and approaches that make Melbourne's exploratory music scene so rich and varied.

In this episode, Jack Palmer talks about Bad Ambulance, his long-standing electronic music project that was featured in New North 7: Another Solstice. Follow the YouTube link below to discover a multilayered fever dream of 808 bass, beats and drones set to a video collage of retro VHS Japanese street drifting, cursed hypnagogic imagery, vintage occultism, and cartoon witches. Watch it here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl52JmFneeI

Jack also discussed his forthcoming release on Nice Music, called Intel 95, and the whimsical ring tones project he has with his partner Annelise Roberts. Get your Diamond Rings here:

diamondringsboutique.bandcamp.com/album/diamond-rings-vol-1

New North’s activities are made possible by the generous support of Creative Australia and Arts Merri-Bek

 

This is Ep.15 of 'The New North Podcast', which does a deep dive into the unique ideas and approaches that make Melbourne's exploratory music scene so rich and varied.

Aditya talks about fixed/fleeting, which he created with support from the 2022 New North Emerging Artist Commission. The work combines hydrophone recordings from various bodies of water with restrained acoustic sounds performed by Aditya on percussion and Justinn Lu on Saxophone.

Discover ideas that informed Aditya's composition and how his work engages with legacies of colonialism that manifest in the relationship between people and ecologies.

Watch the premier performance here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JebmnBXsI&ab_channel=NewNorth

More information about the New North Emerging Artist Commission:

https://www.newnorthmusic.online/emerging-artist-commission

New North’s activities are made possible by the generous support of Creative Australia and Arts Merri-Bek

This is Ep.14 of 'The New North Podcast' that investigates the unique sounds and perspectives of exploratory musicians.

In this episode, pianist, composer and electronic musician Anthony Pateras talks with Francis Plagne about his current musical interests, formative influences and the collection of works presented at NN8: ‘Dread of Voids’ in February, 2023. This pre-concert talk was recorded by Byron Scullin on Feb 17, 2023.

Intro music excerpted from ‘Thinning,’ performed by Sam Dunscombe

Outro music excerpted from ‘A Happy Sacrifice,’ performed by Jonathan Heilbron

Both works are released on ‘ Collected Works Vol. II 2005-2018, Anthony Pateras (Immediata, 2019)’

Find out more at https://www.anthonypateras.com

New North’s activities are made possible by the generous support of Creative Australia and Arts Merri-Bek