Author Archives: lisathatcher

January 29

Pythagoron Inc. 1977 – Electronica at its most mystical. (music review)

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I’ve been letting it all take me away today (actually that’s not true – I’ve really been in a writing frenzy) to the sounds of Pythagoron Inc. 1977… and that part is true! This lovely little snippet of electronica from 1977 is one of those beautiful pieces best enjoyed on your own. Pythagoron Inc. 1977 […]

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January 28

Le Gai Savoir – Godard teaches while we experience the Joy of Learning. (film review)

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And not of the fear of dying – I have always been reconciled to that – but of this expanse in front of me, on all sides, like a forgotten path. Terrified to find myself in front of a mirror without any images.  To feel the shadow on an absent being detached from me. Engaged […]

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January 27

Kinetic Jazz Festival – Voice and masks. (Festival Review)

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I heard the voice of an angel this weekend. The sublime Tanya Sparke, supported by the very famous Peter Dasent.  All works performed were written by Sparke while on residency in Bundanoon. Here is a sample of the exquisite voice of Tanya Sparke: What is truly remarkable about Sparke is not so much her voice, […]

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January 26

Kinetic Jazz Festival – Muscians affected by Space. (festival review)

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I haven’t been lucky enough to get to every evening of the Kinetic Jazz festival, but what I have seen has been stunning.  Apparently much of the program has been especially designed for the festival, with a variety of performance styles and sizes.  There is the known eighteen piece Kinetic Jazz Orchestra and then some […]

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January 26

Kinetic Jazz Festival Coverage (article / festival)

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Very close to my home, the amazing Kinetic Jazz festival is taking place, and I am lucky enough to be able to pop in and give a bit of festival coverage on this wonderful event. The purpose of this wonderful event is to give some of Australia’s best Jazz musicians the chance to perform in […]

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January 24

Zero Dark Thirty – Katherine Bigelow takes out Osama bin Laden. (Film Review)

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A film maker as talented as Katherine Bigelow is absolutely aware that when you weave a fiction in film you work from point of view, and to give the role of torturer to the hero in the film with whom we don’t just sympathize, but either want to “be” or “fuck” is going to cause […]

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January 24

Thalia – Roger Doyle bent on the road to brilliance. (Music Review)

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Roger Doyle is an Irish composer best known for his electro-acoustic work and for his piano music for theater. He was born in Malahide, County Dublin in 1949. Doyle began as a drummer with Supply Demand and Curve and Jazz Therapy playing free-improv and fusion music. He composed the album Rapid Eye Movements including the […]

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January 23

Damsels in Distress – Whit Stillman back after thirteen years. (Film Review)

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I barely knew this was on at the cinema last November, it got such limited released here in Sydney. It seems to have been floating about for a while, and if Wikipedia is to be trusted (and why wouldn’t it be?) it has barely grossed a third of its budget at the box office. At […]

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January 22

Secret Sidewalk – Tom Lichtenberg weaves a meta narrative to tease out the child in all of us. (Book review)

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“When Marcus was eleven and his little brother Ben was only six, they lived on a boat in the harbor with their mother, a hard-working grocery store clerk named Kristen Holmes. Sometimes Ben had trouble sleeping at night and he would climb to the upper bunk and jab his brother in the ribs until he […]

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January 22

2 or 3 Things I know about her – Jean Luc Godard whispers meaningfully. (Film Review)

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The above scene is easily one of the greatest in the history of cinema. It is Godard’s beautiful lament as his character stares into the cup of coffee that looks like the active universe that gives this scene its power.  Godard whispers: “But since social relations are always ambiguous, since thought divides as much as […]

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