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Australia’s First Nations people and Australian Diggers stand together this Remembrance Day with the release of a moving new arrangement of The Last Post titled The Last Post (Winds of Change).
Elysian Fields Releases A New Album
Elysian Fields, Australia’s only electric viola da gamba band, has released its debut album What Should I Say? – a heady blend of jazz, world, folk, and early music. Founded in 2015, as the brainchild of Australia’s only electronic gambist, Jenny Eriksson, in partnership with leading jazz musicians, saxophonist Matt Keegan and pianist under Melbourne’s…
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Natalie Aroyan Wins 2019 Harding Miller Foundation Opera Scholarship
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prepared soundscapes, ‘granulation’, and montages – the artistry of sound in Halcyon’s ‘From Afar’
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