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THE ART OF PERCEPTUAL PLAY Lisa Gye applauds Experimenta: Make Sense for keeping Australia’s rich media arts legacy alive and showcasing artists who, in their play with ideas and perception, help us make sense of what is an increasingly fragile and chaotic world. |
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A TIME FOR NEW MUSIC Perth’s Totally Huge New Music Festival features artists from Japan, the US and Australia performing visually striking works, introducing an algorithmic album generator and placing the audience inside a percussion work for 100 musicians. |
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SOFT CENTRE: A NICHE UTOPIA Gail Priest welcomes Soft Centre, an experimental electronic music festival of scale in Sydney's west, featuring an impressive selection of Australian and international artists and with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary collaboration and multi-sensory stimulation. |
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OZASIA FESTIVAL: THE CULTURAL DEEP-END Ben Brooker embraces performances by Hot Brown Honey, Joelistics & James Mangohig, Darlane Littay & Tian Rotteveel and Aakash Odedra that reveal the complexities of cultural heritage and exchange. |
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OZASIA: THE END, ALMOST HUMAN Keith Gallasch is moved by Keiichiro Shibuya's spectacular multi-screen opera in which a virtual pop star faces mortality, her vivid world glitching and a naked skull-faced doppelganger confronting her with the smell of death. |
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OZASIA MUSIC: BOLD SYNTHESES GayBird's stunning combination of electronic music and dazzling visuals, an engaging multimedia portrait of a great painter, Ian Fairweather and a revival, with guzheng, of a classic 1960s rock album, thrill Chris Reid. |
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