End of year playlist from Making Waves:  this is a marathon collection of all Soundcloud tracks featured in playlists this year.  Your holiday listening sorted!

2017 Waves

Ode to Massive Obsession first track from the debut album 'In the Eyes of the Other' coming soon.

Music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzqpd5iHBJg

Ode To A Massive Obsession

'But it's getting harder to ignore'
Some things just aren't meant to last, and sometimes that is a good thing.

Ignore exposes the honest thoughts and doubts about the relationships you convince yourself are worth staying in only for the hope that things might get better, but they just never do. You can only ignore so many red flags before you find yourself buried beneath them and struggling to find your way out.

Ignore

Georgina Brett, David Grundy, Steve Beresford and Douglas Benford performing as Multiple Melodicas at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London, UK. June 2023.

Multiple Melodicas at Cafe Oto, June 2023

Q.E. Releases Haunting Love Letter 'To Tasmania' with New Single

Producer and songwriter Q.E. (Jacky Collyer) unveils 'To Tasmania', a stirring homage to her nipaluna/Hobart home that captures the momentum of a coastal drive, with swirling synthesizers and raw emotional storytelling.

Co-produced and engineered alongside iconic producer Stew Long (Psycroptic, Violent Femmes, Hey Mook and The Raccoons), 'To Tasmania' marks a bold step in Q.E.'s evolution. At its core, the track is driven by Damien Kingston's soaring, luminous guitar work intertwining with Collyer's crystalline synth textures, while Tom Robb (drums) and Hamish Houston (bass) provide a powerful rhythmic foundation that pushes the song forward like a car on an ocean road.

'To Tasmania' is available now on all major streaming platforms.

This song is about moving to nipaluna/Hobart.
It was something my friend Dante once said whilst on shift at the bakery.

This song was recorded on muwinina Country, in what is now known as nipaluna/Hobart. Colonial invasion and warfare deliberately eliminated the muwinina through genocide. In their absence, I acknowledge the palawa as the ongoing custodians of this land. They are the survivors, continuing the culture and stories of their old people and striving for rights and recognition.

As a white settler creating art about finding home and community on this stolen land, I acknowledge the profound contradiction in celebrating my connection to a place that represents such deep loss and ongoing trauma for its First Peoples. The very name "Tasmania" represents a colonial project that has caused and continues to cause deep harm, while Aboriginal people continue to face systemic injustice, including ongoing incarceration, child removal and dispossession.

I acknowledge the incredible determination and resilience of our palawa community, whose culture and identity have been intertwined with this land and sea for millennia. While this song speaks to personal healing found in this place, I recognise that true healing cannot occur without justice, reparations and the return of lands and children to First Nations communities across so called "Australia".

This acknowledgement is offered as part of an ongoing commitment to truth-telling and action towards justice. I acknowledge that we have much to learn from Aboriginal people and pay my deepest respects to Elders past and present and to all Aboriginal people living in and around nipaluna/Hobart today. 
lyrics
You move to Tasmania
What are you running from?
You move to Tasmania
When everything had just gone wrong

And now I am home
Not wondering no more
Bout that hurricane that blew open the door
Everything I wrote
Painful note for note
Like bricks that weigh me down to the ocean floor

You moved to Tasmania
What are you running from?
You moved to Tasmania
When everything had just gone wrong

I put a mountain between us
And an ocean too
God you’re so hateful
I still break down
I had nothing left to lose

You moved to Tasmania
What are you running from?
You moved to Tasmania
When everything had just gone wrong.
credits
released November 15, 2024
To Tasmania
Written by Jacky Collyer
Engineered / Produced by Jacky Collyer & Stew Long
Mixed by Stew Long
Mastered by King Willy Bowden

Vox/Keys/Synths - Jacky Collyer
Guitars - Damien Kingston
Drums - Tom Robb
Bass - Hamish Houston
license
all rights reserved

To Tasmania

Responsibility

A response to the lives lost in Paris, November 2015. The piece attempts to portray the confused but overwhelmingly energised inner workings of a young, fanaticised mind and give form to their misshapen and distorted reality.

Works by playwright Wole Soyinka influenced my choice of perspective when approaching this topic. 

… the shadowy one, the waiter-stalker, a youth
 Fed on dreams of sarabands of houris
 Doe-eyed virgins, wine and sweetmeats in the afterlife 
But to his paradise, a key - the plunging knife. 

an excerpt from Samarkand
by Wole Soyinka

The Fanatic or I Am Right You Are Dead

Commissioned by Samantha Wolf for International Women's Day 2016 concert: This Will Be Our Reply. First performed on 7th March 2016 by Tamara Kohler, Gemma Tomlinson, Aaron Klein, & Adam McMillan.

There is usually more complexity on the inside than what is initially seen.

"On the Inside" explores the many aspects of identity throughout a woman’s life, from growth to complexity, (as opposed to innocence to uselessness). It rejects the idea that women are to be seen as objects only, that a woman’s value lies in her physical attributes and functionality to another. 

Musically, this piece started with a single small motif that is heard about a third of the way in, which I then grew and developed continuously. Despite rejecting external ideals, aspects that might be perceived as "beauty" have been retained because, like all characteristics, beauty is not something to be ashamed of or feared.

On The Inside

[text by Rhys Nixon, composed && performed by Dan Thorpe].

going wild here on the footpath

a dog looked at me, walked away

going to buy a dog off amazon after getting something to eat

send pictures of dogs to strangers

no one sends any back

windows fogged up 

cant see inside

 

what am i doing between tabs i’m not looking at

another day, another empty mail box

no we don’t want to subscribe to your newsletter

no we are happy with our bandwidth 

no we don’t care about your coupons

no this letter isn’t meant for us


been waiting outside way too long

yes, it’s exactly what it looks like, more than one train approaching

walk down the street in pajamas, will people even look 

they glance and mutter

they really do need to subscribe

looks like their bandwidth is low

probably uses coupons

 

walking on footpaths, broken rubbish bag

empty milk bottles rolling into gutters

think of picking them up

we don’t, look at the bus drive past

everyone waiting

 

i can use this, open a store, sell my ideas

watches don’t tell the time, coffee tastes like water

inbuilt spelling mistake maker

automatic Facebook liker

app that answers the door

service that compares all the dogs in your area

white noise dream catcher

 

if i tackled a police officer would people stop me

or will the police officer step aside

consider this while waiting for a coffee

consider this while you exit the train station

consider that the police officer 

didn’t look at you

 

i walked into traffic and all the cars stopped politely, 

the drivers weren't watching me

if you were waiting for me

i’m sorry about that

it must be the water

can i get a drink

 

i’ll look at a sad picture and not feel the need to cry

until someone says ‘wow that made me cry a lot’

we’ll walk to the bank

take all our money

throw it on the road

watch cars drive over it

pick it up and deposit it again

 

don’t worry about it, honestly, 

i’ll make sure to stand up straighter

and meet up with friends

we’ll be the friendliest people

on the end of our street

in our complex

in our combined bank account

linked to our insurance company

 

bury my face in funny videos

don’t want to know anymore

turn the volume down here so i wont be noticed

give up sleeping

stay up every day

everything feels blue

we won’t be photographed

Considerate

What can we do, there's nothing to do,
about sickness and hunger and dying.
What can we do, there's nothing to do,
nothing but cursing and crying.

Find something to burn.
Let it go up in smoke.
burn your troubles away.

Sometimes it's witches or what will you choose?
Sometimes it's lunatics, shut them away.
It's blacks and it's women and often it's Jews.
We's all be quite happy if they'd go away.

Find something to burn.
Let it go up in smoke.
burn your troubles away.

The lyrics of Caryl Churchill from her play 'Vinegar Tom'. Performed and composed by ALPHAMALE (https://soundcloud.com/dad-dreams) and Marlene Claudine Radice. This piece premiered in COUP Canberra's 2016 production of Vinegar Tom.
http://www.agac.com.au/2016/12/the-musicians-of-vinegar-tom/

Cut Common interview with Hannah and Marlene: http://www.cutcommonmag.com/how-can-we-use-music-to-achieve-social-change/

Something To Burn

Recording of the Australian premiere of Pauline Oliveros' 13 Changes - for Malcolm Goldstein. Performed at a venue in Brisbane, Australia, 2015.

Adam Cadell - Pauline Oliveros 13 Changes Aus Premiere 2015

This is an experimental performance/recording/improvisation based on recordings and samples from the "Ramallah Syndrome" project.

 هذا تسجيل/عرض/ارتجال تجريبي من تسجيلات لمحادثات من مشروع "متلازمة رام الله".

"Ramallah Syndrome is a collective that examines the side effect of the new spatial and social order that emerged after the collapse of the Oslo ‘peace process’ that was manifested in an urban psychology of ‘hallucination of normality’, the fantasy of a co-existence of occupation and liberty. " 
متلازمة رام الله"
هو عمل جماعي يتحرى الآثار الجانبية للنظام الاجتماعي والحيزي الجديد الذي ظهر بعد انهيار عملية أوسلو للسلام، وما تجلى عنها من سيكولوجيا حضرية "بتوهم الوضع الطبيعي"، خيال التعايش المشترك مع الاحتلال والحرية. يميل العمل الجماعي إلى التشكيك في قضايا مثل الأوهام والواقع بخصوص تأسيس دولة فلسطينية ذات سيادة، وبنفس الطريقة، تبعات تواصل النظام الكولونيالي "وأثره على الهوية الوطنية الفلسطينية. 


Thank you to the A.M Qattan Foundation for providing me with the recordings.
 شكر خاص لمؤسسة القطان لتوفير التسجيلات الصوتية. .

Ramallah Syndrome - متلازمة رام الله -Experimental Performance/Recording

taken from our new album 'Kill the Lights'

Kill the lights 

Shadow and Dust

モバイル音ゲーTone Sphereエピソード「6秒後の砂の城」書き下ろし曲

Original song for the mobile rhythm game Tone Sphere episode "Six Seconds Later"

Tone Sphere

Q.E.

Marco Lucchi : toy harp and Juno synthesizer

1 dicembre 2020

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Our share of night to bear -
Our share of morning -
Our blank in bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning -

Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way!
Here a mist - and there a mist -
Afterwards - Day!

Emily Dickinson

toy harp n°20 (+ Juno koto)

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