Today's ear piece
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The artists
PHIL STACK & IAN MOSS
PHIL STACK & IAN MOSS
Australian bassist Phil Stack is one of a rare breed who seamlessly crosses genres from Jazz to Rock, being James Morrison’s bassist of choice since 1997. Ian Moss delivers an unforgettable sound – not only as a telling soloist on guitar but especially with his silken voice, ringing with clarity and resonating with pure soul...
MILES BROWN
MILES BROWN
Miles Brown is an Australian thereminist, composer and experimental artist. Working with the ethereal interface of this gesturally-controlled instrument, he conjures unique emotional landscapes that query the relationships between space, sound, electronics and the body...
NIGEL HELYER
NIGEL HELYER
Dr Nigel Helyer (aka DrSonique) has an international reputation as a sculptor and sound-artist who creates large scale sound-sculptures, environmental artworks and interactive projects that prompt the community to engage with their cultural histories, identity and sense of place...
DEBRIS FACILITY & ARBEN DZIKA
DEBRIS FACILITY & ARBEN DZIKA
Debris Facility is an artistic Corporate Body which critically inhabits multiple industry positions. Currently focused on print production and pedagogy-performance. Arben Dzika is an Artist currently based in Naarm/ Melbourne who works across multiple media including sound, visual and word...
GRACE ROUVRAY
GRACE ROUVRAY
Grace is an actor, writer, celebrant and comedian hailing from the regional town of Albury/Wodonga. In 2016, after a particularly stupid dating experience, Grace started a blog chronicling her thoughts and feelings on dating in your twenties. She turned the stories and sexcapades into the script 600 Bottles Of Wine...
NICOLA SITCH
NICOLA SITCH
Nicola Sitch, the 2020 recipient of the Commercial Radio Australia podcast scholarship, is a Melbourne-based writer and radio student. She is passionate about homegrown stories and considers aural mediums a fantastic means of honouring our oral storytelling tradition...
TRISTAN VINEY: BEEP FM
TRISTAN VINEY: BEEP FM
Last year — after a career of ideation and problem solving for brands — Tristan Viney’s focus shifted from scribbling ideas into his notebook to building ideas in his notebook. Resulting in him moving to Amsterdam, learning to code, and joining a Dutch tech startup all of which inspired the creation of beepFM...
BYRON MARK & CHACHY PEÑALVER
BYRON MARK & CHACHY PEÑALVER
Byron is a professional pianist, percussionist and composer with 15 years of live performance experience in Australia and internationally. Chachy has devoted most of her life to dance, moving through different disciplines since the age of 7...
FRANK BENNETT
FRANK BENNETT
4-time ARIA nominee Frank Bennett has sold over 50,000 albums. The success of two award winning albums, 'Five O'clock Shadow' and 'Cash Landing', lush orchestral renditions of contemporary pop classics showcasing Frank’s talent plus his personality and stage presence have led him to become one of the most sought after entertainers in Australia...
PEARL THE GIRL
PEARL THE GIRL
Like having an auditory coffee shot, Pearl the Girl is the front woman of a 5 piece indie/pop/rock band. Pearl, takes you on a sassy ride through pugnacious relationships and one night romances. Playful in sound, lyrically aggressive and frolicsomeness in performance, Pearl the Girl simultaneously feeds the romantic at heart and heartbroken...
DAVID HARSENT
DAVID HARSENT
David Harsent is a British poet and librettist. He has published twelve volumes of poetry. Legion won the Forward Prize for best collection; Night was triple short-listed in the UK and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Fire Songs won the T.S. Eliot Prize...
GREY GHOST
GREY GHOST
Jeremy Koren aka Grey Ghost is a multi-disciplinary artist who built his name initially as a rap artist signed to EMI. After gaining notoriety creating music videos and visuals for his own musical projects he jumped into directing/designing and styling for some of the biggest names in the game inc Khalid, Troye Sivan & Tones And I (to name a few)...
MARY HOANG & PHONDUPE
MARY HOANG & PHONDUPE
Mary Hoang is not your usual therapist. Founder of mental health organisation The Indigo Project, Mary is pioneering a creative approach to psychology. Rich Lucano is producer/composer Phondupe. His shadowy blend of warped, introspective electronica explores the tug-of-war of the mind.
JOSEPH TAWADROS & ADAM GREEN
JOSEPH TAWADROS & ADAM GREEN
Joseph Tawadros AM, born in Cairo in 1983, is a multi-award-winning composer and virtuoso player of the oud, a Middle Eastern lute combines his talents with those of guitarist Adam Green, a child prodigy, who started classical guitar at 7, quickly rose and remains at the top of the London guitar scene.