Episodes
Episode 17 is a live recording from the first Fountain of Knowledge industry panel at the Song Writing Open Day at The University of Tasmania. The panel, chaired by Keith Deverell, features local artist Emma Waters (EWAH), Tim Eilenberg from APRA AMOC, Mark Bain from Performance Under Pressure and the TSO, and Maru Mani from The University of Tasmania, who discuss performance techniques and methods for working through anxiety and health and well-being.
Published 10/10/23
Episode 18 is a live recording from the first Fountain of Knowledge industry panel at the Songwriting Open Day at The University of Tasmania. The panel, chaired by Keith Deverell, features local artist Emma Waters (EWAH), Tim Eilenberg from APRA AMCOS, and local music technologist Grace McCallum, who discuss licensing, royalties, and artist representation.
Published 10/10/23
This episode is a live recording from our third Fountain of Knowledge skills and development workshops. The panel, chaired by Keith Deverell, features local artist Julia Wilson (Brain Drain, Rice Is Nice), Lucinda Shannon (Slag Queens), and Chloe Alison Escott (The Native Cats), who discuss demystifying agencies, labels and all things PR, and what it looks like to self-manage as an independent artist.
Published 07/25/23
Published 07/25/23
This episode is a live recording from our second Fountain of Knowledge skills and development workshops. The panel, chaired by Priya Vunaki, features local artist Grace Chia and Aarti Desai from The Push, who discuss building audiences and being authentic when developing your music career.
Published 07/25/23
This episode is a live recording from our first Fountain of Knowledge skills and development workshops. The panel, chaired by Priya Vunaki, features Lucy Cutting, Laura Imbruglia, and Elliot, who discuss biography writing, interview techniques, and approaching different media outlets.
Published 05/12/23
Nipaluna/Hobart's Little Bands is a unique source of creativity, expression, and new music that has carried on a Melbourne legacy of improvisation and being rubbish that started in the early 1980s. In this podcast, Keith chats with little band organiser and art music extraordinaire Georgia Lucy about the beauty, anarchy, and legacy of Little Bands. This podcast is supported by Arts Tasmania
Published 01/27/23
Dancer, writer, DJ, and radio presenter Elwyn discusses the beauty and freedom of late-night queer spaces and why they needed to document Hobart's party scene. The conversation with Keith Deverell also discusses the reliance on alcohol to fuel the late-night music economy and how drug law reform could help create safe and inclusive places for self-expression.
Published 12/25/22
Bec Tilley, singer and vocal coach, discusses the personal and social benefits of signing. Her aim is to help you become better friends with your voice through different techniques and finding secret places to sing. She says, 'her role is to help you to become better friends with your voice (and perhaps by association, better friends with yourself).'
Published 12/15/22
The Festival of Voices director, Peter Choraziak, and Musician Scott Targett respond to the question: why did you start the Tasmanian Songbook? The Tasmanian Song Book is a program of music presented through Festival of Voices that speak directly to the heart and identity of the island and its people.
Published 06/09/22
Miah Aplin, Esther Outram, Clarence Jazz Festival 2022 Scholars, and mentor Katy Raucher, discuss the value of scholarship programs such as the Clarence Jazz Festival Scholarship, and the value of mentors to young emerging talent. This episode was hosted by Helen Shields, and recorded live during the Clarence Jazz Festival at the Rosny Barn in February 2022.
Published 05/25/22
In this episode Michelle Nicolle and Louise Denson, highly respected Jazz musicians who have been playing on the international stage for many years, discuss how the Jazz scene enables women to have longer musical careers than in other musical genres. The pair also discuss the value and process of collaboration and the joy of playing with others. This episode was hosted by Helen Shields, and recorded live during the Clarence Jazz Festival at the Rosny Barn in February 2022.
Published 05/24/22
In this episode Stephanie Eslake editor of cut common speaks to Jazz musician, educator and music producer Matthew Boden. Stephanie asks Matthew about his perspectives on music‘s infatuation with excellence, and the positive and negative impact this has on the industry. They also discuss making music education applicable, and adaptive to provide context and opportunities in a fast moving industry, and discuss how through education students can experience real life industry situations....
Published 11/30/21
In this episode, we hear from the Sisters Akousmatica. Their expanded radio projects explore radical transmission possibilities through voice, radio receivers and transmitters, amplified mineral samples, re-kindled transistor parts, pulsar, wind, waves, and words. Recently they drove their Broom Broom vehicle of transmission at Junction Festival in various public spaces, where audiences could draw on the car and take control of hyperlocal airwaves. They also have a Borderadio artwork...
Published 10/31/21
In this episode Stephanie Eslake, arts journalist, and founding editor of national music magazine Cut Common talks with Hobart based singer songwriter and vocal tutor Hannah May. Hannah talks about her own career as a musician and teacher, and how she uses music to address mental health in her own life and in the lives of her students.
Published 09/17/21
n this episode Julia Fredersdorff, Claire Johnston, and Sam Dowson discuss the positives and negatives of record labels. Speaking from their own personal experiences the three discuss how record labels are curators of music, and documenters of culture. They discuss the aesthetics of vinyl and the joy of playing records, and reflect on how record labels can also work against the artist. This conversation was facilitated by Ursula Woods, and recorded at our In Conversation event at the Rosny...
Published 09/05/21
This episode is a recording of a conversation between Alan Gogoll and Matthew Boden, who discuss their different approaches to reaching audiences through social networking and live streaming platforms, and strategies they use for generating passive incomes from their music. This conversation was facilitated by Ursula Woods, and recorded at our In Conversation event at the Rosny Barn in August 2021. We would like to thank Clarence Council Arts and Events for their support. Enjoy. The Music...
Published 09/05/21
In this first episode of the Music Tas Podcast we hear from Tasmanian band The Brothers of Country, a band of brothers from across Tasmania, Australia, and the World. The Brothers of Country draw from aboriginal practices and connection to country as the conduit to bring diverse cultural groups into a shared, safe and creative space.
Published 08/22/21
Introducing the Music Tasmania podcast. In this episode we take a short journey around Tasmania hearing a few tales of the sounds and the places that influenced and make this island the island it is.
Published 08/01/21