Following on from the 'Prima Donna Podcast' win at the 2022 Victorian Community History awards, composer and producer Nat Grant speaks with ABC host David Astle about the importance of preserving oral histories, especially of those whose voices we don't hear regularly enough. 

http://primadonnapodcast.com

https://oralhistoryvictoria.org.au/shortlist-for-the-2022-victorian-community-history-oral-history-award/

Nat Grant interview with David Astle on ABC Evenings 081222

A short excerpt from Nat Grant's 4 hour long sound art work 'Momentum'.

Momentum excerpt

Three sound works by Nat Grant, part of the 'Broken Bodies' exhibition at the Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, 2017.

The exhibition is a based-on research led by Dr Jennifer Ayton from the University of Tasmania (UTAS) School of Medicine-Public Health, and her desire to return the research to the community in a very different way.

This is a collaboration with the  School of Creative Arts, The Plimsoll Gallery, local and interstate artists, the Institute for the Study of Social Change and School of Social Sciences.

The Broken Bodies project reinterprets over 120 Tasmanian mothers narratives collected as part of the TAS Infant Feeding Study (2012) into expressive art forms each responding to the women’s powerful experiences and sense of loss around feeding their babies.

i Feeding

Nat Grant (melb), Sarah Galdes (NY) & Mat Watson (melb) triple drum set improvisation at the Make it Up Club (Bar Open) in Melbourne, 9th January 2018.

Recorded by Stevie Richards.

Nat Grant, Sarah Galdes & Mat Watson MIUC 090118

Live performance recording of 'Aivette' for piano trio with digital integration, commissioned by the Solstice piano trio. Melbourne Recital Centre, 25 October 2017.

Aviette

Improvised percussion and voice performance at Blindside, Melbourne - June 2018. Part of Gerard Crewson's exhibition, supported by Liquid Architecture. Recorded by Jeff Henderson. https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/gerard-crewdson-performance-3

Nat Grant, Jenny Ruth Barnes, Sean Baxter at Blindside 2018

Portrait of two artists at the 360 Xochi Quetzal residency in Chapala, Mexico: January 2019.

Chanelle Gallant is a non-fiction writer and activist from Toronto, Canada. https://chanellegallant.com/ 

Sunny Drake is an Australian born, Canadian residing playwright and performer. https://www.sunnydrake.com/

Photo by Sunny Drake.

Interview with Sunny and Chanelle, and field recordings from under the water in Lake Chapala, kids on skateboards by the lake, and person street sweeping made and mixed by Nat Grant http://natgrantmusic.com

Sunny and Chanelle

Portrait of an artist at the 360 Xochi Quetzal residency in Chapala, Mexico: January 2019.

Janis Morgan is a textile artist and art therapist from Melbourne, Australia.

www.creativewellnessaustralia.com.au/about-…organ/

Photo by Janis Morgan.

Interview with Janis and field recordings of horses on cobblestones, church bells in Chapala, fountain in Riberas, New Years Even band and fireworks made and mixed by Nat Grant natgrantmusic.com

Janis

Portrait of an artist at the 360 Xochi Quetzal residency in Chapala, Mexico: January 2019.

Danielle Wolffe is a writer, ghostwriter, novelist, and poet from New York.

https://www.thenation.com/article/women-without-parole/

Photo by Danielle Wolffe. 

Interview with Danielle, recordings of percussion instruments and agua (water) truck in Chapala, and hydrophone recordings in Lake Chapala made and mixed by Nat Grant natgrantmusic.com

Danielle

Performer, sound artist, composer from Melbourne Australia.

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