There is a piano restorer in Uferhallen. Once a week or so the forecourt fills with many cars not from …
May 16, 2011 – 7:41 pm
Nein! Nein! Nicht die Wunde ist es.
I heard it slightly wrong. Parsifal, struck with awareness of Amfortas and the wound is physically overwrought. “Sie brennt in …
May 12, 2011 – 8:16 pm
parsifal in film
I arrive in Brussels this morning, curiously with Anuschka sitting next to me the whole way. We stay up the …
May 1, 2011 – 11:44 am
temperance 16mm film
With all the adding of video and making newness on francesdath.info, I started looking at the footage of temperance again. …
March 24, 2011 – 2:52 pm
stuttgart calixto bieito parsifal (+ andrew)
It seems the nature of seeing a performance in another city also involves lengthy missed trains on the return for …
March 19, 2011 – 10:25 pm
die singende stadt — parsifal and calixto bieito
The last day screening, Dasniya and I climbed the stairs of Hackesche Höfe Kino for 90 more minutes of the …
February 7, 2011 – 2:17 pm
castellucci is a criminal
After the fourth performance, an emotionally tough night for us, we stand outside the stage door. A woman in beret, …
January 27, 2011 – 12:35 am
parsifotos
Once we got into the theatre to rehearse, I decided to not show all the photos, and wait until Parsifal …
January 25, 2011 – 12:08 am
Reading: Laurence Dreyfus: Wagner and the Erotic Impulse
Laurence Dreyfus: Wagner and the Erotic Impulse
January 23, 2011 – 8:50 pm
a day off and still in la monnaie
I am writing out of order. We thought to go to Gare du Midi markets around lunchtime, giving us a …
December 3, 2010 – 7:45 am
Burka Bondage
The past couple of months Dasniya has been rehearsing with Helena Waldmann, in a piece she helped with last year …
November 27, 2010 – 11:40 am
Reading: Edward Allworth (ed.) – Central Asia – 120 Years of Russian Rule
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November 27, 2010 – 11:37 am
Reading: James R. Brandon – Theatre in Southeast Asia
james r. brandon – theatre in southeast asia
November 27, 2010 – 11:13 am
blacker…
China Miéville’s rejectamentalist manifesto has been one of my favourite daily-ish reads since I stumbled into it after wondering where …
October 25, 2010 – 5:51 am
einstürzende neubauten 30
Between U- and S-Bahn returning home, Dy said, “Why don’t you write about this? After all, it’s a performance and …
August 10, 2010 – 1:30 am
reading: jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
April 29, 2010 – 6:15 am
sydney’s siberia and other digital creatures
No, I don’t actually remember which Mac forum I discovered Jason Nelson and secrettechnology on. I do though highly enjoy …
March 15, 2010 – 2:07 am
enough from daniel
Something to celebrate because I lost all track of time. Adelaide’s Fringe Festival is over, which I’ve only ever experience …
October 8, 2009 – 4:39 am
SOIT – We Was Them
To start at the end. Or, an ending. Somewhere past an hour, Ivan and Harold (I think) sit on the …
September 21, 2009 – 9:24 am
soit – we was them
A good a reason as any to return to Bruxelles, or better than most. The delightful Hans, along with Anuschka, …
August 17, 2009 – 10:27 am
save the vca
It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …
July 23, 2008 – 5:36 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 7)
I think a stop to yoga soon, or maybe exchange for snoozing or lying on the floor pretending to warm …
February 27, 2007 – 1:07 pm
venus flytrap – visa for love
It’s been about three months since I first mentioned Venus Flytrap, the ultra-tranny manufactured pop group from Thailand, signed to …
January 13, 2007 – 2:46 pm
live @ the soup kitchen – the next day
Gavin Clarke is something of a ummm … megalomaniac, performing in I think four of the ten works, curating the …
January 8, 2007 – 2:10 pm
live @ the soup kitchen
This Friday night, curated by Gavin Clarke and with choreographers including Adam Synott, Alison Currie and of course Gala Moody …
December 18, 2006 – 5:43 pm
我的小飛機場 my little airport
Walking to a bookshop, walking to East St Kilda, walking through Alma Park, listening to my iPod and I was …
November 29, 2006 – 10:14 pm
beyond the valley of the ultra-trannies
A while ago I was quite the fan of Lady, the Korean tranny pop sensation riding on the wave of …
November 1, 2006 – 3:26 pm
两块一个走 – 2 kuai a zou
One afternoon in, I guess late April, I took Emile and Paul for a stroll through my favourite part of …
October 13, 2006 – 11:00 am
Hell Is Invisible … Heaven Is Her/e
One of the only tattoos I ever seriously considered getting was the Psychick Cross of the Temple ov Psychick Youth, …
October 5, 2006 – 8:53 pm
china power station
Lawrence Li at Global Noise Online has been blogging regularly about the upcoming China Power Station, “A major exhibition of …
September 19, 2006 – 8:34 pm
she’s my man
I started the day with the Scissor Sisters new album, Ta-Dah, and it’s everything I said about the first album. …
September 19, 2006 – 8:02 pm
battersea power station, guangzhou
Unlike recent high-modernist industrial travelogues in which ailing former jewels-in-the-crown of the European heavy industry age are cut up and …
September 2, 2006 – 12:32 pm
what i read today
For a while I kept a del.ic.ious account (last updated almost two months ago). I also used to have one …
August 20, 2006 – 8:16 pm
Robin Fox at Footscray AV Social Club
I’ve been meaning to mention some of the things Emile is up to lately, but mostly whenever we get together, …
July 28, 2006 – 2:46 pm
创意广州十三行 creative canton
It was slightly unnerving, to be lying there above the swollen and turbulent Pearl River, undercutting the empty, but for …
June 15, 2006 – 10:11 pm
the world is a poorer place
Sometimes I feel as if everyone who made the world brilliant, whose lives and works simply took humanity to new …
May 22, 2006 – 11:08 am
extermination – soundscape movement fest
Darling Alexis, whom I met in Vienna in 2003 at DanceWEB has been busy in the past few days being …
May 17, 2006 – 5:38 pm
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – uber_lingua
Everyone has gone. Emile is back in Melbourne now, and tomorrow is making Guangzhou sounds at St Jerome’s. Remember, each …
April 30, 2006 – 3:21 pm
10 = marquido + itta
Before it all passes me by again and I’m still looking like an imbecile going … wuuuuh … ? this …
April 29, 2006 – 2:51 pm
taipei art-punk squats
One of my favourite blogs from Taiwan is Anarchy in Taiwan or gotmahmojo who recently wrote a big piece on …
April 28, 2006 – 1:02 pm
still lazy (but reading like a concubine at an orgy)
I just can’t seem to get focussed on blogging at the moment, I think because my schedule is a little …
April 24, 2006 – 10:15 pm
New Order’s Peter Hook Guangzhou Babyface DJ set
One of the most influential bands on me from when I first heard the pounding of Blue Monday, and I …
April 8, 2006 – 4:12 pm
welcome to japanese new music festival
I just want to lick something drenched in acid. That’s twice I’ve seen Acid Mothers Temple and my immediate response …
April 7, 2006 – 1:17 pm
art art art … noise
In a pathetic effort to make up for a few days of blaring silence, with 2am crawls to bed, hour …
April 1, 2006 – 3:29 pm
acid mothers temple! guangzhou!
“Welcome to Japanese New Music Festival” I am officially a groupie, and I’m so excited I can’t even type properly. …
March 7, 2006 – 5:47 pm
dancing robot umbrellas = unemployed dancing humans
As if the slime mould robot wasn’t enough to convince both dancers and choreographers in the Contemporary Dance game that …
February 25, 2006 – 1:37 pm
p.k.14 – a tour of the public kingdom
It’s time to think about China and Guangzhou again as I’ll be in Hong Kong in two weeks and spending …
December 3, 2005 – 2:10 pm
a night at loft 345
Last night I went down to Loft345, which used to be Park19 (because it was number 19 whatever lane and …
November 29, 2005 – 10:28 am
lady – the blog
Lady, the hot trash Korean transgender manufactured pop band noone has listened to but everyone has seen pictures of, now …
November 25, 2005 – 1:34 am
life
It’s been five months, an unexpected length of time for me to be in one place, almost long enough to …
November 19, 2005 – 5:31 pm
absolutely freak out
Acid Mothers Temple!!! Zubi Zuva X, Akaten, Ruins Alone, Zoffy, Shrinp Wark, Seikazoku!!! Welcome to Japan New Music Festival!!! Three …
October 26, 2005 – 5:49 pm
濁水溪公社 ltk commune is gonna rock you
During my months in Taipei, hanging out at The Wall, and pretty much constantly amazed at what a cool arts …
October 26, 2005 – 5:38 pm
lady ride the shemale bubble
Rounding off the month’s stories of chick-with-dicks even The Independent finds Lady irresistible, but being news need some controversy, so …
October 26, 2005 – 5:25 pm
dana euro-trash
mmm … eurovision … it celebrated 50 years of costume and aural genius on the weekend, and some crap foursome …
October 26, 2005 – 1:22 am
some more stuff i’ve been reading
Serious pruning of my temporary bookmarks folder(s) is needed. The stuff on 太石村 Tai Shi Village is already out of …
October 7, 2005 – 3:50 am
acid mothers temple in zurich
There’s nothing more to say. Acid Mothers Temple are the closest thing I’ve ever heard to sucking on a blotter-sheet …
October 2, 2005 – 9:34 pm
scraping tai-gu off the wheel
It must be the time for old things to be revisited, and as always through whatever is going on around …
October 2, 2005 – 9:16 pm
all of china at the kennedy centre
There’s a fairly huge mega-company type cultural celebration of China going on at the moment at both the Kennedy Centre …
August 21, 2005 – 5:54 pm
le bal des vampyres
There’s an outpost of Little Australia in Vevey, beside the lake which is where I spent my first week in …
June 15, 2005 – 7:13 pm
all-naked lady
Giving Harisu a run for her money in the Korean Trannie Superstars Awards, my favourite band of the moment, Lady …
June 15, 2005 – 6:12 pm
splash life
Maybe it was last year, or very early this year, when we sat around the outside table at Sleepywood, mesmerised …
May 7, 2005 – 3:24 pm
SoUndScaPe PErformaNcE!
I was just thinking noone seemed to be doing anything and thought I’d had to write even more crap about …
May 5, 2005 – 3:50 pm
Sonar 2005
When I was at a very impressionable age my downward spiral away from god and into the arms of hedonism …
April 30, 2005 – 8:30 pm
when art goes bad
Last night was not quite the beginning of the week of dance at the 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival, but was …
March 31, 2005 – 9:55 pm
we are lady
Forget about Sylvester and Divine, and even Harisu, the new face of shemale pop is Korea’s own Lady. In the …
March 18, 2005 – 9:07 pm
all about genesis
One evening in Taipei, drinking at some bar I met my evil twin. It’s not often I meet someone who …
March 5, 2005 – 6:32 pm
干花乐队 dead flowers at park19
Having blown my remaining change of DVDs again, including weird old documentaries on the history of Hong Kong filmmaking, I …
February 28, 2005 – 6:00 pm
19-T somewhere south of the river
Besides the main Park-19 where all the artists have studios, there’s another one, a bit further west of the University …
February 23, 2005 – 2:19 pm
park 19, 19-T and shanshui records
This Friday night at Park 19, Shanshui Records and a bunch of others have the Guangzhou part of their tour. …
February 21, 2005 – 3:02 pm
taiwan punk fucks the shit up
I missed The Deported play at 這牆 The Wall a few weeks ago, but this piece by band-member AndyO on …
February 13, 2005 – 8:38 pm
gangstalean and beijing bookworm
So I go away for a couple of weeks, and look at all these new websites. Bloody hell, I’m glad …
January 21, 2005 – 3:31 pm
aakzb – channel_a
The last couple of nights a big bunch of guys from Burkina Faso have been playing long into the evening …
January 17, 2005 – 3:32 pm
小白兔唱片 white wabbit records
Downstairs in the underground alleys next to The Wall is a world of Taiwan and Asian music purgatory. No Kenny …
December 20, 2004 – 4:20 pm
第三现场 – 第二届新年国际音乐节 live home 3
After a couple of months of silence and a website announcing the days of 第三现场 Live Home 3 were over, …
December 8, 2004 – 5:34 pm
176*144 – performance art for 3G phones
My next project in Taipei is performance 3G mobile phones. With Big Brother in Australia getting on the bandwagon with …
November 27, 2004 – 1:46 pm
colin at the taipei artist village
Last night Colin, one of the Australians staying in the Taipei Artist Village played a concert in the main gallery. …
November 22, 2004 – 2:35 pm
UBU and TRSIMF
One festival finishes, another begins. Last night was the final of three ear-splitting nights of some of the best rock …
November 20, 2004 – 5:20 pm
硬地音樂展都會嘉年華 UBU 2004
Last night was the start of the UBU 2004 Music Festival, around the corner from the lawn party 華山創意文化園區 Huashan …
October 29, 2004 – 7:50 pm
down at the xinghai concert hall
Friday. My last day in Guangzhou. Two weeks of teaching dance at the Guangdong Modern Dance Company School, Yoga at …
October 4, 2004 – 8:15 pm
i hope someday you will join
The 迷笛现代音乐节 Midi Music Festival is on again in Beijing until today, which is probably the best festival in China …
September 3, 2004 – 12:58 am
“Let the bodies hit the floor…that was the motto for our tank.”
Last night the ABC screened one of the most disturbing documentaries I’ve seen in a long while. Soundtrack To War …
August 28, 2004 – 1:02 pm
comfortably numb
Imagine it’s 1987, and you’re like 12 years old, and all the commercial radio stations are playing Elton John and …
August 25, 2004 – 10:01 pm
i like my noise noisy
In Guangzhou this Saturday, a group of noise-makers from across the city will be shaking the rotten concrete out of …
July 24, 2004 – 12:57 am
Iain Mott at 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Art Festival
ANAT, The Australian Network for Art and Technology have just published the July-October issue of Filter devoted to sound. One …
July 19, 2004 – 10:51 pm
5,6,7,8′s in Taiwan
One of the best bands in the world, the 5,6,7,8′s who like Mach Pelican have spent more time playing the …
July 17, 2004 – 9:48 pm
sonar at schleswig-holstein musik festival
sonarsound is returing for the third consecutive year to the schleswig-holstein musik festival from July 16. The festival, which this …
July 7, 2004 – 1:04 pm
korean punk
Asia Pacific Arts wrote about the punk scene in Korea a couple of weeks ago, and the scene around Skunk …
July 3, 2004 – 5:03 pm
海洋熱 – ocean fever
Director Chen Lung-nan’s rock n’ roll documentary of a bunch of underground bands playing at the Gong-liao Ho-Hai-Yan Rock Festival …
June 27, 2004 – 3:28 pm
bobby and ben
Last night I saw a face on SBS tv who looked really familiar. I met Bobby Singh when musician Ben …
June 18, 2004 – 2:26 pm
Guangdong Symphony Orchestra in Sydney
The Guangdong Symphony Orchestra blew into town on Thursday for a one-nighter at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall performing …
June 17, 2004 – 2:53 pm
cui jian – the father of chinese rock n roll
asia pacific arts has an interview with Cui Jian, the ‘father of Chinese rock n roll’, who started out playing …
June 12, 2004 – 12:45 am
rive droite
Something has been happening in Guangzhou in the last year, which always seems like the poor second child to Beijing …
June 4, 2004 – 10:48 pm
第三现场 3 Live Home – Rhythm Construction
Things are going wild at 第三现场 3 Live Home this month. This week is the first hip-hop week in Guangzhou, …
May 29, 2004 – 2:34 am
跳舞時代 Viva Tonal – The Dance Age
The emergence of a local recording industry, dance halls, pop-stars under the shadow of Japanese occupation makes 跳舞時代 Viva Tonal …