A call to aspiring and emerging vocalists and instrumentalists to participate in The Ground Beneath Us Festival improvisation concert series Waves – Transcendental Improvisations at BEMAC on Sunday 28 May 2023. ABOUT WAVES Waves is a rare concert experience featuring master improvisers from diverse cultures and traditions...
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Join our community of supporters to help bring The Ground Beneath Us to life! The Ground Beneath Us (TGBU) is a project that supports the holistic integration of improvised music-making, intercultural collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, meditation and mindful arts practice, community engagement & participation and research advocacy...
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BrisAsia LIVE, Brisbane’s premier intercultural creative residency, explores dynamic perspectives on interdisciplinary art-making, creative expression and cultural knowledge sharing. This year’s residency explores the traditional Japanese philosophy of aesthetics known as Wabi-Sabi - a creative world view centred in the acceptance of transience and imperfection. Artists will...
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Creative Fusions returned to QPAC for the first time since 2019, and what a wonderful weekend workshop it was! Musicians and singers of all ages and all levels of experience came together 7 - 8 May 2022, with professional mentors to share their passion for music,...
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Sounds Across Oceans is super proud to have produced the 2022 BrisAsia Festival presented by Brisbane City Council. With more than 50 events across Brisbane, record attendance and the most culturally, artistically and creatively diverse festival to date we are excited to have launched a new...
Continue ReadingWe are proud to be launching a new seniors music and movement program The Tree of Life. This innovative and creative program is designed especially for seniors to explore in a fun and caring environment the joy of music & movement. We invite you...
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An invocation of the Celtic spirit this special concert features the soulful artistry of Scottish fiddle expert Emma Nixon in concert with guitarist/composer Anthony Garcia. The program will include a selection of haunting Scottish and Irish tunes arranged for violin and guitar alongside original works...
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Moving beyond the dualistic paradigm of top-down student focused education toward a more creative collaborative learning approach requires us to think a little differently about the role of the musician in schools, tertiary institutions and the broader community—particularly when the music teacher is a passionate...
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A wonderful week at the Heinrich Boel Schuller in Roden, Germany saw Dr. Garcia collaborating with Nyckelharpa player/teacher Sue Ferrers. Over 60 students from the year 5 and 6 instrumental music classes participated in a series of improvisation workshops, composed new music together and presented...
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A successful visit to Geneva, Switzerland for the inaugural Multi-Mod Festival saw Anthony Garcia present new compositions inspired by the Australian landscape, people and culture. The conference was centered in the notion of multi-modernities, a term borrowed from the social sciences, as a way of...
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