RealTime E-dition 1 August 2018

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The utterly distinctive artist and radically dissenting thinker Philip Brophy, pictured above, is one of RealTime’s most popular writers, his words spilling from our pages over the decades, demanding to be read aloud given their inherent rhythms and oratorical drive. In the 1990s and early 2000s his RealTime column Cinesonic (which triggered the 2004 book 100 Modern Film Soundtracks for the British Film Institute) was a virtuosic exploration of the relationship between film image, score and sound design. Brophy will reflect on writing Cinesonic in a coming edition. In this one he reflects on writing the Audiovision column this decade “close to the body,” advancing “illiterature” and embracing “randomised uncontrolled occurrences.”

In our 18 July edition, Vivienne Inch, a 1990s RealTime columnist, returned to our pages with two of her best pieces (more are coming) from TEE OFF with Vivienne Inch. In this edition, fellow columnist, Jack Rufus of TOOTH & CLAW, announces his return with two of his best in which the world of sport takes on a disturbing postmodern hue.

The Create NSW Round 2 project grants debacle — unapologetically delayed results, meagre funds — and the ongoing effects of the Coalition government’s Excellence in Arts and Catalyst — demand that art policy and funding take centrestage in the coming NSW state and federal elections. Will the Myer Foundation/ Tim Fairfax/Keir Foundation’s promised arts think tank finally emerge to give artists of the small to medium sector the support they desperately and urgently need? The time is ripe, the situation stinks. Keith & Virginia

MOVE FAST & HEAR THINGS: WRITING AUDIOVISION Reflecting on the random and contradictory perceptual impulses in works that drive his passion for audiovisuality, and the driven writing that flows from it, Philip Brophy surveys his output for his Audiovision column 2012-2017.

SONGS OF PAIN & HOPE Composer Andrée Greenwell's new digital album, Listen to Me, addresses the subject of gendered violence with intensely lyrical and dramatic songs framed by musically underscored personal statements that lend this timely project documentary immediacy.

THE COMEBACK: TOOTH & CLAW WITH JACK RUFUS A resurrected Jack Rufus selects the best of Tooth & Claw, his column for RealTime in the 1990s, lamenting the sacking of Theatre of Cruelty footballer Eric Cantona and the flight from the stage by chess superstar Garry Kasparov after losing to the Deep Blue computer. More Jack, and Vivienne Inch, soon.

NSW ARTS-FUNDING: DISGRACE & DISRESPECT Small to medium sector artists in NSW anxiously awaited Round 2 grant application results in April. Nothing. For months. They complained, despaired and now, en masse, are protesting not just the intolerable, art-wrecking delay but also the cruelly meagre 2.7% success rate outcome — six successful applicants.

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