38 Years On, the 3CR New and Experimental Music Show Rides Again!

On April 15, 2016, at Gertrude Street Art Space, courtesy of Liquid Architecture and Community Radio 

3CR, we had a 38th anniversary reunion of the New and Experimental Music Show.  Started by John 

Campbell, he quickly recruited me to the show, and a while later, I got John Crawford involved as 

well.  (This was John Crawford's first encounter with radio, and he went on to a many years long 

career in both community radio and the ABC.)  This reunion was held in conjunction with a show at 

Gertrude St celebrating the 40th anniversary of Community Radio 3CR, Melbourne's uncompromising radio voice of diversity.  We did our show there from around 1977-1978 (or 79), and we played a lot of 

interesting music on air in that period.  For this show, we wanted to play music by composer friends 

past and present, paying tribute to some of our colleagues who are no longer with us, and celebrating 

some who are very much still here.  As well, we did live performances.  Three new pieces of mine were 

performed, two by the three of us, and an iPad solo.  The event was a wonderful success and was 

photographed, recorded, and videoed.  Here are some photos of the event, taken by Catherine Schieve:

1) Soundcheck in the afternoon - John Campbell, Warren Burt, John Crawford, left to right

2) Rehearsing "Symmetries for 21 Tuning Forks" by me.  John Campbell, Warren Burt, John Crawford. 

3) A moment of hilarity during the rehearsal for "Symmetries" - John Campbell, Warren Burt, John 

Crawford.

4) An audience shot, early in the evening.

5) Another audience shot, later in the evening, as a crowd began to congregate on the sidewalk 

outside the gallery, looking through the front window. (There were loudspeakers on the street outside 

the gallery.)

Here is a link to a whole gallery of photos of the event taken by Keelan O'Hehir:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/c5fbqvkevjec8cs/AABygtm5of2R4yUCOquG9PV4a?dl=0

And here is a link to the recording of the whole show, on the Liquid Architecture Soundcloud site:

https://soundcloud.com/liquid_architecture/new-and-experimental-music-show

And here is a link to a video recording of "Symmetries for 21 Tuning Forks" and "for 3 or 4 Readers":

https://vimeo.com/164791001

Here are sound recordings of the 3 live pieces:

Symmetries for 21 Tuning Forks by Warren Burt, performed by John Campbell, Warren Burt and John Crawford.  And if you can't see the Flash player above, download the piece HERE.

Disharmonies of Putrefactive Counterpoint by Warren Burt, played by himself. And if you can't see the Flash player above, download the piece HERE.

for 3 to 4 Readers by Warren Burt, performed by John Campbell, Warren Burt and John Crawford.  And if you can't see the Flash player above, download the piece HERE.

And finally, here is the playlist of the music we played that night:

Bridging Music (not announced) Jeff Pressing "Butterfly's Dream"

Fatty Acid "Spanish patrol march" (excerpt)

Chris Wyatt "Bricollage 2"

"1986 3CR Football Show intro"

Jas H Duke "Hot dragon day" 1989.

Ron Nagorcka "Song of the central tree".

Warren Burt "Symmetries for 21 tuning forks" - live performance: John Campbell, Warren Burt, John 

Crawford

Jeltje and Unamonous Quorum "Birds"

Val Stephen  "Fireworks"

Bruce Clarke  "Of spiralling why" 

Percy Grainger   "First Gliding Chords" (1951)

Catherine Schieve   "Aviary (2003) for reconstructed Electric Eye Tone" 

Keith Humble  "Sonata  No.1" (1959) Michael Kieran Harvey, piano

Lawrence Whiffen  "Piano Sonata No. 3" (2011) first movement - Michael Kieran Harvey, piano

Felix Werder: "Dice" (2010) - Michael Kieran Harvey, piano

Herb Jercher and Ernie Althoff "The Sunshine shuffle" (excerpt)

Ria Soemardjo (voice, kechapi) and Anne Norman (shakuhachi) - "Adrift" 

Rewi Alley / John Britton / Warren Burt: "Divide and Rule" and "Worth Fighting For" 

Cindy John   "Hope" - Cindy John electronics; Astra Choir, voices

Warren Burt  "Disharmonies of Putrefactive Counterpoints" - Live iPad

David Chesworth  "Xpand Amor" 

Warren Burt  "For 3 to 4 readers . . ." - live voices, John Campbell, Warren Burt, John Crawford 

Helen Gifford: "Cantillation Fluente" (1966) Michael Kieran Harvey, piano

Thanks to all involved for a wonderful evening.  To Joel Stern and Danni Zuvela, Liquid Architecture for suggesting the event and seeing it through to completion.  To Mike Smith from 3CR for his wonderful engineering, to John Campbell and John Crawford for doing this, to Catherine Schieve and Keelan O'Hehir for their beautiful photographs, and to all the audience members, old and new friends, who made the evening so memorable.