'Bokeh' by Sage Rogan
Music & Lyrics by Sage Rogan
Produced by Troy Rogan & Sage Rogan
Mixed by Hayden Francis
Mastered by Matthew Gray at Matthew Gray Mastering

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LYRICS:

Shortbread houses, silver tinsel
Holly wreaths and handmade angels 
Perfect like it was when you were nine
Been a while, I miss your shy smile
Don’t know why all your plans are
Still wrapped tight in brown paper and twine

I think we’ll be okay 
Fragmented like bokeh 
Beautiful diffusion left behind
Framing open doorways
Lining every hallway
In the shadows chasing our own light

Still afraid to fall asleep
On dreams that might not wake up with me 
Flickering, never meant to be
Sleep soundly

I think we’ll be okay 
Fragmented like bokeh 
Beautiful diffusion left behind
Framing open doorways
Lining every hallway
In the shadows chasing our own light

The cold is creeping in
I wear my winter skin
The city’s quiet now
Our thoughts are way too loud
Fumble to find your keys 
We wonder where we’ll be 
This time next year

I know we’ll be okay 
Fragmented like bokeh 
Beautiful diffusion left behind
Framing open doorways
Lining every hallway
In the shadows chasing our own light 
Beautiful diffusion left behind

Bokeh

Labels. Artists generally utilise labels (e.g., freelance musician and educator) as a one-sentence elevator pitch of what they do in the industry. It's commonly seen at the start of biographies,  advertisements and social media. Nowadays, labels can be extended to express the details of one's gender, nationality, sexuality and much more. It is no longer just a one-sentence elevator pitch, but rather a way of positioning ourselves in the world by choosing to be identified by these 'labels'. It may just be a few extra words to say or write, but it can create a big impact to the world. What are your thoughts about labels? Leave a comment or e-mail us at musiciansumuted@gmail.com. You can also visit our website at www.musiciansunmuted.weebly.com

Music Credits 
Opening Theme by Daniel Kassulke 
Closing Theme by Anna Kho

Episode 41: Labels

Chris Perren
Fibreglass Forestry 						
2016 	
19:00
For Piano, 3 Violins, 3 Violas, 3 Cellos, Drums, Bass Synthesizer

Program Notes
Fibreglass Forestry is a large single-movement work that crystallizes spontaneous and fleeting gestures in the frozen form of fixed notation. In my work I am often caught between two competing interests: a Zen-influenced desire to leave my compositions loosely defined, dynamic, open to chaos; and a perfectionist compulsion to control every detail. Fibreglass Forestry mimics the spontaneity of improvisation within the contrived medium of notated music.

Where my previous compositions have been rather mechanical and procedural in their development, this work was much more intuitive. Its journey is more winding mountain path than machine conveyor belt. Perhaps the influence of having recently become a parent has led me to embrace mess and chaos in both life and art - this work is certainly the most deliberately untidy of my compositions to date. Much of it is the result of a kind of mental improvisation, to which the medium of notation grants powers of alignment and coherence unavailable to true improvisation. 

The title is a play on this tension between the dynamic and the static: a forest constructed with fibreglass could have every leaf perfectly placed, but does not grow; it is a beautiful dead thing. But the metaphor is loose, because regardless of how strictly one tries to dictate a musical work, there is an abundance of life and chaos to be found in the very act of performance. The players, the audience, the space, and the wood and metal of the instruments are alive and organic. They are the true life-givers to a piece of music.

Commissioned by Dots+Loops & premiered by Nonsemble and friends at Dots+Loops Recomposed concert, GoMA, July 2, 2016.

Fibreglass Forestry - Live At GoMA, 02/06/2016

Opening with a melancholic interplay between samples, guitar harmonies and soft flutes, the track soon swells with distorted voices, shimmering percussion and plaintive orchestral sweeps. For producer George Cloke, the meditative ebb and flow of the soundscapes incite the indefinable and unreliable process of remembering. 

Themes of memory, community and nature are explored throughout Spring In A Small Town’s self titled debut album, which releases on Flau 15th May.

Spring In A Small Town - Memoria

A private test recording - the basis of my performance at Oscillo Scape 13 (May 10th 2019).

Untitled

Hallelujah Junction— John Adams (Sam Mitchell— two pianos)

Float in a dreamworld with the one and only @peterbroderick. In his latest, Earnest Leslye, a radiant piano melody glides above a bed of bubbling synths, feeding our minds with inspiration and our ears with an air of calm.

🎧 orcd.co/pb-earnestleslye
🎬 youtu.be/cNXM5ucnJlw

Entry no 4 in our summer single series. Artwork by Mikhail Mishin.

Earnest Leslye

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Peter Broderick - Earnest Leslye

Australian Composer & Video Artist. 
Father of two, Social Media Defector, Monotasker.
PhD in composition from UQ under Rob Davidson.
Mr. Maps (math-rock)
Nonsemble (chamber/indie-classical)
Software of Seagulls (electronica)
Artless Pursuit (pop)
Various other audiovisual work, notated compositions, and one-off projects.

Fibreglass Forestry - Live At GoMA, 02/06/2016

Chrisperren