Yellow House, Sydney 7/10 It was hard to know where to look, what with a stark naked composer disporting himself, a significant artist sketching him on a wall, and a string quartet sawing away. To cap it off, Clementine Robertson was lying on a plinth the height of an upright…
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FLUID TO THE INFLUENCE (Room40) 8/10 Chris Abrahams’ new solo opus not only offers more of his darkly brooding sound worlds, it contains the sonic equivalent of a horror movie. On One-Liter Cold Laptop sounds spear at you with such venom as might be the soundtrack to the apocalypse, or…
505, August 4 9.5/10 Wisely it came last, because it couldn’t be trumped. The late Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman is one of the 20th century’s masterpieces; a sonic equivalent of the shattering sadness of Picasso’s Weeping Woman. Here it was played with almost frightening intensity, spawning a dialogue between Peter…