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Interview with Jeannie Lewis and Fiona Hill

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MBElectroacoustic experimentation is composer Fiona Hill’s specialty. Her collaborations with filmmakers, choreographers and instrumentalists such as recorder player Alicia Crossley have balanced high-tech production with emotive and organic evocations of the natural world. As she prepares a new score for Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed season with choreographer Lilian Steiner, Fiona stops by the music show to explain how she uses gestural controllers and a “blob tracker” to make music.

Jeannie Lewis has a career spanning over fifty years and probably as many genres. Perhaps best known for her 1970s protest-music infused album releases, she has worked with Peter Sculthorpe, Tully, and many great musicians of Central and South America, turning her considerable and distinctive vocal talents to jazz, cabaret, and tango. In her first interview for The Music Show, she shares her philosophy of music, the voice, and collaboration.

For our AusMusic Month series Postcards, some of our great musical émigrés are sending notes home and today James Cuddeford’s dispatch from Hong Kong hits The Music Show’s doorstep.

Duration: 54min 6sec
Broadcast: Sun 21 Nov 2021, 11:05am
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Music played at the start of the show:
Title: Leaking Light
Artist: Lachlan R. Dale
Album: Eclipsing // Orbs (with Joseph Rabjohns)
Label: Art As Catharsis

In the Fiona Hill interview:
Title: Imago
Composer: Fiona Hill
Artist: Lamorna Nightingale (flute), Jane Sheldon (voice), Fiona Hill (live electronics)
Album: Other Voices
Digital release

Title: Lost In The Darkness
Composer: Fiona Hill
Artist: Alicia Crossley (bass recorder) Fiona Hill (electronics)
Album: Bass Instincts
Label: Move MCD 624
Title: Circumstance 2020 (excerpt)
Composer: Fiona Hill
Artist: Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Fellows, Fiona Hill (piano, electronics)
From Circumstance 2020, by Sue Healey

In the interview with Jeannie Lewis:
Title: The Stars Turn from Love 200
Composer: Peter Sculthorpe
Artist: Jeannie Lewis, Tully
Album: Live at Sydney Town Hall 1969-70
Label: Chapter Music

Title: Whose Hand?
Composer: Margaret Kitamura
Artist: Jeannie Lewis
Recorded at the University of Sydney in 1967

Title: Fasten Your Wings With Love
Composer: Jamie McKinley/Jeannie Lewis
Artist: Jeannie Lewis
Album: Free Fall Through Featherless Flight
Label: EMI EMC 2505

Title: Pilgrimages
Composer: Jim Cotter/Jeannie Lewis
Artist: Jeannie Lewis
Album: Journeys: Australian Women in Mexico

Title: Motherless Child
Composer: Harry Burleigh
Artist: Jeannie Lewis
Album: Free Fall Through Featherless Flight
Label: EMI EMC 2505

Music in James’s Postcard:
Title: Triptych
Composer: James Cuddeford
Artist: Hong Kong Sinfonietta
Supplied by James Cuddeford & the Hong Kong Sinfonietta

Title: Sonata No. 3
Composer: George Enescu
Artist: James Cuddeford and Daniel Herscovitch
Supplied by James Cuddeford & the Hong Kong Sinfonietta

Producers: C Benedict and Ellie Parnell

Engineers: Simon Branthwaite, John Jacobs, and Jennifer Parsonage

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