Upcoming performances – Melbourne & Taiwan tour

– Tuesday 12 December 2017, 9pm – Make It Up Club, Upstairs @ Bar Open, 317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy – duo with Barnaby Oliver. Facebook event.

MOE CHEE TAIWAN TOUR JANUARY 2018:

– Saturday 27 January 2018 – Aeso Studio, 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy – Launch for my upcoming solo CD Iliad (out soon on Frustration Jazz) – Facebook event.

– Saturday/Sunday 17-18 February 2018 – CURRENT (guest curated by myself and Michael McNab), Aeso Studio, 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy (details to come).

– Saturday 17 March 2018 – Quiet Noise VII, 15 Neil St, West Footscray. Facebook event.

Video from Moe Chee performance in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 10 July 2015

This video captures most of a Moe Chee performance given in Taiwan in July. We began in Ruh Café before migrating with our audience across the road to Birthday Park. Fang-Yi and Feng-Chen Hseih were subtle guest artists.

It’s a very long video, but if you are willing to sit with it I think it gives a good representation of the mood and feel of the performance. If it helps, there is a cute cat in it as well.

‘Listen’ workshop – Taipei, 12 July 2015 – reading and references

Photo: Kuan-Chiun Chuang
Photo: Kuan-Chiun Chuang

On Sunday night, I ran the ‘Listen’ workshop at the Murder Ink book store in Taipei. The workshop was specifically for the cast and crew of the upcoming Taipei Fringe Festival production Cold Case Club, but was also open to others who booked as well. Chun-liang Liu kindly translated to Mandarin for me. I really enjoyed the evening and think the participants did as well.

Photo: Kuan-Chiun Chuang
Photo: Kuan-Chiun Chuang

For participants, here are some references and further reading regarding some of the people and ideas we talked about:

Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice, iUniverse : 2005 – about Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening

Marc Weidenbaum “Sound Class, Week 1 of 15: An Introduction to Listening” in Disquiet 4 Feb 2015

Aviva Endean A Face Like Yours video, 2015 (thanks to Aviva for permission to use her video)

John Cage describes his experience in the anechoic chamber: