The Libraryhack Lock In brought about surprising new collaborations with teams of enthusiastic ICT creatives working through the night to produce iPhone apps and web mash-ups. The high calibre of work presented at 8am the next morning took us all by surprise. The Lock In was a 24 hour mashup event held at The Edge …
This Saturday past had The Edge host a professional development day for Emerge program participants. Sixteen young musicians, produced and mentored by Luke Cavell in the leadup to Stylin’ Up, were invited to rehearse in The Edge’s Auditorium, get their Pro-Tools induction in Lab 3, and finalise their ABN applications in Lab 1. Andrei Maberly …
So you’re starting out and you’re a musician/artist/dancer/performer/creative of some kind and you live in Australia. It’s been a long cold winter for the starving artist but there are ways (hidden, overgrown, stumbly ways worn down by the artists who went before you) to make a living from your art, and the first port of …
Well everybody, the time has come for me to bid you all adieu! I have decided to pass the baton on to our fabulous new (ish) VSO Federico (pictured.) NB: I would also like to point out that had Josef Muller also been working today, the ceremonious baton passing would’ve included him. Thank you to […]
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If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll be aware of The Edge’s support of the Emerge program. Developed by Luke Cavell, who spent about seven years taking equipment to schools to record music with students, the Emerge program was put in place in order to meet the needs of young people who then left school …
Working with the MIDI files created from old music scores for Libraryhack, former Catalyst, Andrei, and Nick from Elements Hiphop Workshops, crowded into Lab 3 with a group of seven young MCs from QPASTT to lay down some beats. After a couple of hours of putting pen to paper with Nick, each of the crew …
Intro to music recording is the first of the Bread and Butter workshops to kick off at The Edge this week. Providing the sweet sounds for the L-plate audio engineers will be special guest Simon Thomas, part of the all Australian, all amazing acoustic music lineup at this year’s fRETfEST. At the tender young age …