Free for All 4 - 5 pm this week. Hope you caught Spike’s ABC radio interview on Saturday morning. This will be the best Free for All ever!
Free for All 4 - 5 pm this week. Hope you caught Spike’s ABC radio interview on Saturday morning. This will be the best Free for All ever!
From 7.30pm mixing/mastering/vocal engineer, songwriter, producer Becki Whitton in an improvised live vocal looping set.
Aphir is the electronic choral project of engineer/songwriter/producer Becki Whitton. Her approach to music balances focus and ease, and centres on a thirst to find the most powerful expression of a song’s emotional core. Becki has received ARIA, AWMA and Music Victoria Award nominations for her sound work. Since 2016, Becki has released music through experimental label Provenance Records, founded by Stuart Buchanan (New Weird Australia) and, following Buchanan’s departure from the label, turned Provenance into an artist cooperative in 2021. Throughout 2020 - 2021 Becki embraced the challenges of pandemic lockdown through live-streaming on Twitch - first producing, recording, and mixing her 2020 LP, Republic of Paradise on livestream, and then pursuing marathon-length vocal improvisations on Twitch throughout 2021, culminating in a 12-hour performance on Boxing Day that year.
We can’t wait to hear her at Sawtooth!
From 6pm a performance by musician Frances Cameron at Sawtooth ARI’s 25th Birthday. Come along and hear Frances’ own compositions + improvisations in response to the 25 + 1 limited edition contributing visual artists’ prints on display.
All About Frances ( according to MONA) “Classically-trained pianist and composer blends romantic and impressionist influences with minimalistic elements. Serenity ensues. The full-time music thing is going so well she's even been able to give up selling drugs, which is nice.”
Happy birthday Sawtooth ARI! There’s a party and you and your mates are invited! For the 25th birthday Creative Australia are helping Sawtooth turn $25,000 into $50,000 through matched funding under the Plus1 program. Working with 25+1 artists doing 25+1 awesome artworks for limited edition prints of 25+1 unveiled at the gala. Alex Davern + Amber Koroluk-Stephenson + Angela Casey + Benjamin Baker + Bianca Templar + Bonnie Starick + Chee Yong + Clara Martin + Emily-Rose Wills + Emma Magnusson-Reid + Fernando Do Campo + Jo Chew + Joel Crosswell + Julie Gough + Katie Barron +Lex Palmer-Bull + Liam James + Neil Haddon + Olly Read + Rob O’Connor + Rod Gardner + Sarah Rhodes + Tony Curran + Tricky Walsh + Troy Ruffels + Zara Sully Sawtooth began 25 years ago to foster and enrich the visual arts culture of Lutruwita (Launceston, Tasmania). Ever since they’ve worked with emerging, early and mid-career practitioners to highlight their work and process through exhibitions, events, public programming and more. Sawtooth aims to continue to go for another 25 years through support from the community. RSVP today to register for the lucky door prizes from a pool of good and services worth over $500. Tickets are free but you have the option to donate $25 to come along and help us tick the donation count forward!
Postcards from Papua
Philip Swan and Spike Mason first met at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 1994, where they were studying drums and saxophone (respectively). They played together numerous times over the next ten years, including a gig at the original Free-For-All in Glebe, Sydney, where Philip remembers feeling both exhilarated and very uncomfortable. 20 years on, he’s ready to give FFA another try. Philip spent 2009-2019 in West Papua assisting an indigenous community with mother-tongue language-based community development and Bible translation. This performance will take the form of musical ‘postcards’ from Papua, as Philip and Spike improvise their way through scenes and experiences of life lived in different places.
Put your name in the chalice and join in creating a soundscape with others. Instruments provided, no experience necessary.
Ethan and Francis Azarian First Set Performance This will be our 3rd father / son First Set duo in 2 months! Visiting from Austin, Texas the family are hanging out in Launceston for a while. Bit of background from the interweb https://macshieldonline.com/55986/entertainment/azarian-awakens-artistry/ This will be a shortish first set, followed by Free for All music making in the moment, all are welcome to participate. No experience necessary, instruments provided.
Add your name to the chalice and creat some music in the moment. No experience necessary, instrument provided. See our Free for All page for more information.
Not the Von Trapp family, not the Jacksons, not Hanson, not the Bee Gees…. | this week we have an Addison Hall FFA take over | it will be great!
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Rosny Farm Arts Centre and Rosny Farm, Lot 2 Rosny Hill Road, Rosny Park TAS
Head South for Clarence Jazz Festival - join the LIMAs and friends for an amazing weekend of Jazz.
Listen to a first set performance then from 5pm an opportunity to make music in the moment with Free for All | add your name to the chalice and create a soundscape with a small group. Instruments provided | No experience necessary. All are welcome.
4pm First set |DOUBLE - DOUBLE - BASS - CLARINET What? Come along and find out who this ensemble of fabulous local musicians is.
5pm Free for All | add your name to the chalice, all welcome, no experience necessary, instruments provided. Get creative.
4pm Two short sets featuring 2 local duo collaborations.
Ian + Bruce + The WonderPole Bromance | Ian and Bruce show off their new hand crafted toys
Dave + Jon + What Rhymes with Oud? A brand new collaboration with a grand selection of things with strings. ( and probably other stuff)
5pm Free for All - no experience necessary, all welcome to participate.
Free for All returns for 2024! Let’s call it the Festivale Fringe…
Join us at Sawtooth for the first FFA for the year. The first set performers are presenting in the questionable time honoured tradition that happens every year on the first day of school by reporting on “ What I did on the Holidays” - improvised musical interpretations of the Summer break. LIMA regulars are welcome to contribute a first set piece, no longer than 5 minutes.
This will be followed by Free for All - music making in the moment for everyone to join in. No experience necessary, instruments provided.
Join us to celebrate World Wetlands Day 2024 for an extraordinary sound exploration within the Wetlands exhibition at the Museum at Inveresk, as composer and musician Karlin Love leads us through the different ecosystems of the wetlands. Water, mud, insects, birds, all animals and humans create a multilayered sound experience for those who enter the wetlands. Karlin will guide you through those sounds, share stories about wetlands' creatures. Karlin will respond to the continuous soundscape with musical instruments and may invite you to join in to experience to become one with the ecosystems. This is a FREE family event: children are welcome accompanied by an adults. Places are limited, please register your spot.
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Join us at 6pm to help plan our musical 2024. All ideas are welcome… suggestions for FFA first sets, other performances and activities, funding, how to make the World’s Smallest Improvised Music Festival even smaller. Send us an email if you have ideas to share but can’t make it to the meeting.
We will announce the start date for Sunday Free for All 2024 after this meeting.
Sounding the Bridge | A concert featuring LIMA musicians and compositions by Friend of LIMA pianist and composer Louise Denson.
World premiere of Bridge by Louise Denson (Campania), a new work for 6 musicians commemorating Richmond’s bicentennial year, featuring internationally celebrated Tasmanian vocalist Elly Hoyt. Also featuring mulaka milaythina (Denson/Sculthorpe-Green) for 10 musicians and narrator, telling the story of the Mumirimina people of the Oyster Bay Nation, original inhabitants of the Richmond area.
This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania.
$25 / $30