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Organised Noise and Other Aesthetics
Nov. 12th, 2024 10:19 pmAbout a month ago, I decided to supplement my long-standing occasional activity as a music reviewer and critic (Metior, The Dwarf, Rocknerd) with actual practice. True, I touched the bass guitar when I was in my early teens, and four years ago, I started an online course from an Augsburg University lecturer. But these ventures were without much enthusiasm. This time however, I have practised daily and have completed the Duolingo Music course. Of course, I have reviewed the course on Rocknerd, doubling with a long-awaited review of Carbon Based Lifeform's studio album, "Seeker" (2023). Further, I have also joined the local Spanish choir "Sonidos del-Alma", courtesy of an old invitation from Liza D; partially because I have this mad idea in my head about taking an extended visit to South America in the latter part of 2025. Unsurprisingly, I've restarted the Augsburg course as well.
The inspiration for all this comes from my dear friend Mel S., who in a past life was the vocalist for the retro synth-pop band "The Greenmatics", with whom I'm forming a collaboration for a somewhat different sound and audience. To further help things on their way a couple of weeks back I attended two events from UniMelb's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, one evening after the other. The first was "The Glory of Venice" with Erica, which covered the Venetian school's polychoral compositions of the late sixteenth century. The second event was "A Touch of the Sacred" with Kayo, which included choral numbers by Bach, Puccini, Mascagni, Schubert, Mozart (Requiem, of course), along with several newer pieces. To add to the story, a few days later Nitul and I attended a performance of Reservoir Dogs in the style of Shakespeare; a clever musical of sorts and in Melbourne's historic Little Theatre.
Apropos, on Saturday, Mel, Erica, and I attended the opening of the City of Merri-Bek's annual Summer Show exhibition, which featured over one hundred visual artists at the Counihan Gallery, and what seemed to be at least five hundred people in attendance. I am unsurprised that at least two people I know (Elif Sezen and Diana Videka) had works displayed, so congratulations to both of you! I know that spending the time to convert a concept to an actual completed piece of work can (and should) take weeks of concerted effort. I am not quite in the right mind to pick up the brush just yet, let alone start a master's in fine arts, but neither is beyond my horizon. In the meantime, it is that famous month for novel writing and I have something quite different brewing in my mind. Dare I write a socially up-to-date version of a second-person multiple storyline romantasy? Of course, I do.
The inspiration for all this comes from my dear friend Mel S., who in a past life was the vocalist for the retro synth-pop band "The Greenmatics", with whom I'm forming a collaboration for a somewhat different sound and audience. To further help things on their way a couple of weeks back I attended two events from UniMelb's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, one evening after the other. The first was "The Glory of Venice" with Erica, which covered the Venetian school's polychoral compositions of the late sixteenth century. The second event was "A Touch of the Sacred" with Kayo, which included choral numbers by Bach, Puccini, Mascagni, Schubert, Mozart (Requiem, of course), along with several newer pieces. To add to the story, a few days later Nitul and I attended a performance of Reservoir Dogs in the style of Shakespeare; a clever musical of sorts and in Melbourne's historic Little Theatre.
Apropos, on Saturday, Mel, Erica, and I attended the opening of the City of Merri-Bek's annual Summer Show exhibition, which featured over one hundred visual artists at the Counihan Gallery, and what seemed to be at least five hundred people in attendance. I am unsurprised that at least two people I know (Elif Sezen and Diana Videka) had works displayed, so congratulations to both of you! I know that spending the time to convert a concept to an actual completed piece of work can (and should) take weeks of concerted effort. I am not quite in the right mind to pick up the brush just yet, let alone start a master's in fine arts, but neither is beyond my horizon. In the meantime, it is that famous month for novel writing and I have something quite different brewing in my mind. Dare I write a socially up-to-date version of a second-person multiple storyline romantasy? Of course, I do.
