Playlist 4: Visual Waves

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This month we’re thrilled to present you with our very first audiovisual playlist hosted on YouTube. Featuring a prestigious lineup of Australian composers, all compositions are supported by live performance or studio recording footage. We are also treated to works incorporating choreographed visual elements, including some intriguing multimedia work. Mixing it up this month, we are pleased to feature artists of various ages/stages, bringing in the music of some of our revered mentors and role models. Enjoy this specially gathered concert of new music in the comfort of your own home! Continue reading →

Playlist 3: Boundary-Crossing Waves

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This month Making Waves celebrates musical diversity with an exciting and enthralling hour of new music from Australian composers working at the forefront of their creative fields. A veritable musical melting pot, our March playlist brings together compositions that represent a variety of genres, exhibit cross-cultural influences, verge in to hybrid art forms or collaboration, and reference extra-musical themes.

Some of the ingredients in our musical melting pot this month: food, origami, poetry, literature, science, minimalism, rock, dance, folk, Macedonian music, Arabic and Near Eastern music, jazz, prepared piano, electro-acoustic and sound design.

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Limelight magazine blog

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Can new music make waves?
Lisa and Peggy blog about Making Waves: how the project is unfolding so far, and a little about the process of collaborating interstate.

Playlist 2: Other-Worldly Waves

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Welcome to new and returning listeners in the second month of Making Waves. In this month’s playlist we have brought together compositions that visit ethereal, sublime and sometimes eerie themes and sounds. Forces range from solo piano to string quartet to orchestra, with some soundscape and voices thrown into the mix. This month’s featured composers are from QLD, VIC, NSW & WA, with several now studying and/or working overseas.

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On the Airwaves: 3MBS Radio Interview, 10PM 20.2.2015

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Tune in to 3MBS 103.5 FM tonight, 10PM Melbourne time, or live stream online, to catch Making Waves Co-director and Curator Lisa Cheney talking about the project with presenter Laila Engle. There will be some music!

Image credit: “The PVR” by Duncan Rawlinson – Flickr.com – image description page. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Playlist 1: Chamber Waves

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This is the debut playlist from Making Waves, welcome! A selection of chamber music from QLD, NSW, ACT, VIC & WA. Sit back and enjoy one-diverse-hour of recently composed music by seven of Australia’s finest early-career composers.

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Introducing…

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We’re delighted to announce Making Waves, a curated series of playlists streaming one hour of quality new composed music. In 2015 we shine the spotlight on Australian composers. A fresh playlist is released on the last day of every month, with our very first listening-adventure to be released on Saturday 31/1/2015. For more information see our About page. Follow us via email, WordPress, RSS, Facebook, or Twitter if you’d like a little surprise audio each month.

If you are an Australian composer who would like to have works featured in playlist, please send us the direct links to 1-3 of your favourite compositions (Soundcloud, YouTube and other streamable links), a short bio and your website address via the Contact page on our website. All submissions welcome, and we don’t send rejection letters! Non-Australian composers are also welcome to apply and will be kept on file for any special edition playlists. Regards, Lisa & Peggy