Danger Magic: dark soundings

Keith Gallasch

Keith Gallasch feels the danger in daunting performances by Andrew Harper and Geoffrey Gartner in Liquid Architecture’s Danger Magic at Sydney’s Firstdraft.

Triple J & arts criticism in crisis

Cameron Williams

The controversial competition for a new screen critic at Triple J reveals a deeper problem: a deprofessionalisation and devaluation of criticism in Australia at the national youth broadcaster and beyond, argues Cameron Williams.

Is birdsong music? Ask the butcherbird

Chris Reid

Zoömusicologist Hollis Taylor reveals the cultural life and compositional skills of birds in a wonderful new book with two CDs on which humans join in the music-making. Listen to fascinating excerpts.

Philip Samartzis: Antarctica

Critical Audio

Feel the sheer force of Antarctic wind activating the symphonic potential of wire and sheet metal in an excerpt from Samartzis’ Antarctica, An Absent Presence.

GIVEAWAY: Hollis Taylor, Absolute Bird, double CD

A very special double CD by Hollis Taylor features a magical coming together of Australian musicians — avian and human.

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Jodie McNeilly

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Dancer, research academic and writer Jodie McNeilly likes that writing “lets [her] turn towards the world with acute attention.” Read Jodie’s profile here.

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Erin Brannigan

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Writer and teacher Erin Brannigan’s passionate “motivation in writing about dance and choreography in its many forms is to help it persist into the future.”

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Cleo Mees

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Writer, teacher and video-maker Cleo Mees reflects on music and dance, Bodyweather and writing “that makes surprising associations and confessions…”