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Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au
www.soundtravellers.com.au

Melbourne Festival

So it was off for a quick visit to the Melbourne Festival, meeting people to discuss Sound Travellers, which is really inspiring, plus great to catch up with friends.

Saw Merce Cunningham's Company in the heat in Federation Square . Then a performance by DBR, which for me was an interesting exercise in the blurring of musical genres.



Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au

Cat Empire, Short, Sweet and Dance

OK, so I took my 7 year to her first "stand up" concert today. We went to the all ages Cat Empire concert at the Metro.

Silly me, thinking because it was "all ages", and it was on at 2, didn't realise that it was going to be jam packed. So in we strolled at 3.15 to a see of people, most considerably older than 7! You can see from the video that we wouldn't have had a hope in hell of her seeing a thing if ...

Some very kind people shared some room near the steps and we had a good view. Arran said it was terrific, but after 50 minutes succumbed to hunger, thirst, tired legs, heat and a need to go to the bathroom.

Having said that we had a great time, band were good, I would definitely go again.



Also went to see Part 2 of Short, Sweet and Dance. 10 minute dance pieces, have to admit I was rather disappointed by the overall quality, but there was one stand out piece which was the Martin Del Amo.

Also furiously marketing my gig of Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra at the Factory
with Pascal Schumacher Quartet on 1st November. Should be a good concert, so if you have any interest, have a look.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au
www.placesandspaces.com.au

Wake up Everybody and Lets get it on

OK this song is an old favourite of mine by Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes.


As is this one from Marvin Gaye



Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au

Children's activities

A day in the life of children's activities starting with Buzz Dance Company performing Rabbit at the Opera House. Active and engaging performance of physical dance based on the Alice story.

Why does there seem to be so much more great children's theatre/performances being created outside of NSW?


Then onto Carriageworks for a ride on Babylove. We hope we get more of this kind of stuff.

Great fun, little teacup ride. There were also some presentations by resident companies. Here is a little clip of David and Max from Stalker with some fantastic movement. As David did say at the beginning, it isn't really a show, more just showing us what can be done, and certainly making us wish we could see a show! Have a look at their website for the performance angle.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au
www.placesandspaces.com.au

Big Sound

An interesting few days spent in Brisbane at a music conference, called Big Sound. Great to hear new ideas, meet people and see what is happening. I have a huge interest in the application of technology to support art forms that have not traditionally had big commercial reach.

There are so many possibilities existing now. It is all very exciting, as it opens up opportunities that previously you couldn't consider with small budgets.

I have been listening to a couple of albums from Lawrence English's, Room 40 label, worth listening to if you enjoy "other" types of music.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au
www.placesandspaces.com.au

Electrofringe, Newcastle and Lucian

Well an interesting weekend spent finding more about sound/art electronica at Electrofringe (largest sound/art festival in Australia) and getting to visit all those burnt out wrecks of buildings in downtown Newcastle.

I am immersing myself in the "foundling" musics that I am running a project for, called Sound Travellers, to organise some touring along with Performing Lines, courtesy of a grant from the Australia Council. So good to see for myself what is happening. Was very struck by the lack of females performing, though there were a healthy number at the talks.

Amazingly in all my other trips to Newcastle, I had never seen so many down and out buildings. Had only noticed the new building work going on.

Also managed to catch the Lucian Freud exhibition on men. Having seen lots of his female nudes this was a different take on the style.


Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au
www.placesandspaces.com.au