Damien

What do you get when you mix up final-year students from classical, contemporary, composition, jazz & digital music degrees and give them free rein to make whatever they want?
Come find out this weekend in a festival of diverse new music at the Syd Con
boxoffice-music.sydney.edu.au/tiny/NewCrea...

Listen to a Starfish : Diana Chester & Damien Ricketson Step into another world - lie down, close your eyes and listen to a starfish. Using field recordings from Newcastle’s shore and rock pools, this sensory sound installation will help you hear and feel ...

Installation created with Diana Chester and Fausto Brusamolino open 10am-5pm for the next 10 days in a shipping container as part of the New Annual festival in Newcastle.

Sound and the More-Than-Human Worlds 19 audio papers on sound, technology, and listening beyond the human

Seismograf has just released an interesting batch of audio-papers on ‘Sound and the More-Than-Human Worlds’ including something from Diana Chester and I. Listen below.

New Music Ensemble tomorrow (Fri 19 Sept).
Works by Paul Stanhope, Bree van Reyk, Liza Lim, Alex Maltas & Matthew Hindson, conducted by Sam Weller.
Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium.
Info & tickets: bit.ly/scmnmeperfor...

Created in collaboration with Diana Chester, Fausto Brusamolino (video) & Earth! Supported by the Sydney Environment Institute.

Decapitating web preview

Ensemble Offspring: Twenty-Five Years of Making New Music in Australia — Curious Noise - Damien Ricketson The following article was written in 2020 on the 25th anniversary of Ensemble Offspring. Introduction Ensemble Offspring: Twenty-Five Years of Making New Music in Australia outlines the contrib...

30 years ago today, a bunch of music students took to stage as part of the Sydney Spring Festival in what was to become Ensemble Offspring.
At the 25-year mark I wrote an extended piece about the organisation’s history and the environment that shaped it.
Still going strong 30 years on.

Presenting a sensory sound installation and paper at the Colloquium on Artistic Research in the Performing Arts in Helsinki.
Deep listening room with surround sound and vibrating benches opening today.
www.uniarts.fi/en/colloquiu...

Mid creative development

Surrounded by composers following Syd Symph Fellows gig at the Con. [Photo: Liza Lim]

New work 'Castles Made of Sand' premiering with the SSO Fellows 7pm 4th July. Imagine a mash of Ravel, Hendrix and a field recording of the ocean. In a program celebrating the Syd Con curated by Liza Lim.
Info & tix: bit.ly/ssofellowssc...

Nancy Bates: Healing Spirit We all have healing to do, says Indigenous composer and songwriter Nancy Bates — and music gives us the means and the method.

Lovely story about Nancy Bates heading into Syd Conservatorium New Music Ensemble performance this Thu 7pm

‘Songs of Healing’ featuring music by Nancy Bates & Tim Gray. 7pm Thu 17 April @ Syd Con.
Culmination of Indigenous Artists-in-Residence project involving Nancy, Tim & students across the Con’s composition, classical performance, contemporary & jazz degrees.
Info & tickets: bit.ly/SCMEME2-170425

The creative team from Nazri after gifting their audience with wondrous sounds. Another intriguing show from Shervin Mirzeinali.

Energetic, intimate, uplifting & fun. Aurora at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney.

A day of collaborative songwriting with Nancy Bates & Tim Gray as part of their residency at the Syd Con.

Recent family timeout for two significant bdays and an anniversary.

Migrating from Facebook to Bluesky in hope of a more positive social media experience. Looking for music, art, culture, quality news and a bit of satire to fill my feed in case anyone has recommendations.