Ben Carey is a Sydney-based saxophonist, composer and technologist with interests in contemporary classical, interactive, improvised and electro-acoustic music. Ben’s recent research and practice incorporates equal parts performance, composition and the development of musical software systems. Ben’s work has been featured at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2016), the Metropolis New Music Festival (2015), The Totally Huge New Music Festival (2015), the International Conference of Computational Creativity (2015), the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (2012, 2014), the International Computer Music Conference (2013), the Sound and Music Computing Conference (2012), the dBâle festival of electronic music (2012), IRCAM Live @ La Gaité Lyrique (2012). Ben completed a PhD at the University of Technology, Sydney in 2016, and has lectured in music technology and contemporary music at the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of New South Wales. In 2017 he begins a new role as Scholarly Teaching Fellow in Composition and Music Technology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Improvisation
Photo- Heidrun Lohr (Mouth Festival, Carriage Works, Redfern, NSW, Australia, May 2023)

Beats and basslines are my thing

Catch my music on Extra Spicy, Detrimental Audio, and Soul Rebel Recordings. 

One half of 8 Diagram alongside Capro

Proud Double Up fam

Shouts to all the lovers

Once described by the ABC as a "A modern day renaissance man", Cor is a Sydney based improviser, composer, instrument builder, visual artist, scholar and inventor. His practice is an interdisciplinary one crossing into installation, dance, puppetry, comic strip and site-specific performance. Aside piano, Cor performs on an array of different instruments and his own invention, the keyolin. You can find info and his contact on his website:

“In equal measures intelligent, playful, ambitious and moving” (New York Times)—Resonant Bodies presents festivals of contemporary vocal music around the world. The Festival showcases "today’s most talented singers... seamlessly blend[ing] classical, avant-garde and indie-folk” (Feast of Music). Vocalists are invited to curate and perform in their own set, with no restrictions on repertoire, format, or style. This freedom gives each show a "happy zealousness, where the singers’ enthusiasm for their repertoire [is] contagious” (Sequenza 21).

Founded in 2013 and having "already made a valuable contribution to the city’s music scene” (New York Times), the Resonant Bodies Festival is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to hear virtuosic contemporary music vocalists perform cutting-edge repertoire. Thus far the festival has presented in NYC, Chicago, Melbourne, Sydney, and at Banff Centre (Canada) with future festivals in Los Angeles and beyond.

Our Mission

Resonant Bodies Festival supports the growth and evolution of contemporary vocal music and vocal artists. Our goals are to: 

Produce festivals of the highest caliber that are thrilling to artists and audience
Catalyze the creation of new vocal music 
Expand the audience for contemporary vocal music
Challenge and transform the role of the vocal recitalist
Bring together a global network of contemporary vocalists
Create and archive media resources to better connect contemporary vocal music audiences, performers, and composers.

ADSR ZINE is an artist collective comprised of James Hazel and Elia Bosshard, known for their award-winning publication ADSR Zine that features writing and media from contributors who are, or who work with contemporary practising artists. 

We value the process of reflection, translation, interpretation, critical response and active engagement with Australian art and performance.
 
We believe that the artist is not only an expert in their field, but offers an important voice beyond the scope of their primary discipline. Artists are welcomed to move beyond this scope to embrace naivety, presenting the sweep, the details, or a combination of both. We embrace experimentalism and failure as an integral part of artistic practice and view the zine as a testing ground for new ideas, as well as for fully formed works.
 
ADSR Zine is has a strong interdisciplinary focus, delivering written, sonic and visual resources to present, support and facilitate discourse between contemporary practising artists.

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