Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Autumn New Music in Canberra by Lisa Moore and Nicole Canham

This May the Canberra International Music Festival (CIMF) offers a spectacular and adventurous autumn program featuring new works by 20 visiting composers performed by over 50 musicians in 30 concerts spread across the city for 12 days...

Editorial: Nothing happens in isolation by Nicole Canham

This edition of the Resonate Journal is occupied with notions of sense of place. Music is essentially ephemeral in nature – live performance exists in the moment in which it is created. It may be recorded or captured on film, but as an undertaking music is markedly different from something like visual art, for example. Working in an art form where things are focused around the moments of a performance, we can sometimes lose sight of the fact that everything we do is placing us somewhere on a map, or continuum of activity. Nothing that we do exists in isolation. It is all connected to something else, be it a person, an idea, a space, a geographical location.

Harnessing a place by Nicole Canham

Caroline Stacey is the Artistic Director/CEO of Canberra's The Street Theatre. Before coming to Canberra to give a new life to this slightly tired and largely forgotten theatre venue ('like an old laundry, with white walls and grey carpet'), she was responsible for reinvigorating the Castlemaine State Festival in Victoria. She is also one of Australia’s leading opera directors. Nicole Canham asked her about the role a physical location can take in art.

An interview with Robert Davidson by Nicole Canham

'There is something very Brisbane about Topology', claims Robert Davidson. In this short interview, he talks to Nicole Canham about how Topology came to be, and what it means to be an ensemble in residence at the Brisbane Powerhouse.

#4: Sense of Place edited by Nicole Canham