SOFT CENTRE @ Carriageworks, June 11th 2023
Last week Cyclic previewed VIVID Sydney’s satellite experimental and DIY arts and music festival SOFT…
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Experimental arts fest SOFT CENTRE at Carriageworks in Sydney this long weekend
The now annual precinct-takeover from evocative, DIY-arts tastemakers: SOFT CENTRE is happening this long weekend…
Dania Luck (Stacian): “Make it Happen For Yourself”
There is something about being in a club, the elation that accompanies the visceral vibration…
Siavash Amini: Stepping Away From the System
As an Iranian composer based in Tehran, Siavash Amini may just surprise you. Prolific in…
Yui Onodera: “We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.” – John Cage
The seven years between conversations with Cyclic Defrost for Japanese sound artist Yui Onodera has…
Underworld: Vivid Live – Sydney Opera House – 1st June 2019
It’s evening two of a four night (Concert Hall hosted) Vivid one-off performance extravaganza crafted…
Karl Hyde (Underworld): “Respond but not follow and also not become a pastiche of our ourselves.” Interview by Ruth Bailey.
“Rick was ahead of me in his vision for the dubnobasswithmyheadman album and he’s done…
A Guy called Gerald: “Music is actually a celebration of freedom.” Interview by Ruth Bailey.
The dance eras of England through the eighties, nineties and noughties are periods characterised by…
Nils Frahm: Sydney Opera House 14th of October 2018
Nils Frahm, the Berlin based, Hamburg born German pianist and composer parades before The Sydney…
St Vincent: Vivid Live – Carriageworks Sydney 17th of June 2018
Two live acts and one short film prequel directed by the artist herself – titled…
Mazzy Star – Vivid Live: Sydney Opera House 11th of June 18
To say it was a long-awaited gig down-under, the premiere show for California’s Mazzy Star…
José González – Sydney Opera House: 31st of March 2018
The Sydney Opera House audience travelled a winding and philosophical journey last night with Swedish…
Devon E. Levins (Morricone Youth): “Nothing is really a secret anymore.” Interview by Ruth Bailey
When George Miller, the director of the renowned post-apocalyptic film Mad Max, gives his blessing…
Ryan Norris: “Completely in the Opposite Direction.” Interview by Ruth Bailey
What happens when you take an Alabama-born country lad living in Nashville, Tennessee and place…
Dave Miller (PVT) “There is a bit more fluidity around what we can do.” Interview by Ruth Bailey
Their recent album New Spirit was put to bed almost two years ago (although only…