Category: Music
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist of curated music and sound goes along with the blog. The playlist references articles in the blog and includes pieces from across the globe. Those who have a paid subscription to Spotify will hear all the playlist uninterrupted. Those with a free subscription will have advertising interspersed and everyone else will…
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How glass beads are changing Australian history
In 2013 a news report alerted archaeologists, researchers and scientists to an unusual find: glass beads of European origin excavated in the Arnhem Land region of Australia. These beads appear to predate European contact with Aboriginal peoples of the country and point to a trade that existed long before colonisation. These small items were, it…
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Collections/ Connections
The current exhibition at the Left Bank Art Gallery in Māwhera Greymouth has an interesting premise behind it: the connections between collectors and artists. In this show Friends of the Gallery were asked to choose a piece from their collection to share with someone else, who would respond to it with a piece of their…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week the blog has a curated playlist that goes alongside the articles. The playlist is made up of songs and sounds from Spotify and you can listen to it on the player above, on the app or by following this link and choosing the playlist you would like to hear. If you have a…
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Zambezi (Sweet African)
The Zambezi River, the fourth largest river system in Africa, drains seven countries and provides a livelihood for millions of people who live along its banks, catchment and flow. The lower Zambezi is the most productive and biologically diverse of Africa’s tropical floodplains. The river has given its name to history in many ways: through…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
In this week’s list of music and sound that accompanies the blog there are references to International Women’s Day, wedding dresses, nursing, weaving and more. The playlist is on Spotify and paid subscribers can listen to all the tracks without interruption while free subscriptions will have advertising breaks. Anyone without a subscription will hear extracts…
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Update on the studios
The studios in Māwhera Greymouth are fully operational now. Above the Regent Theatre in town the textile collection is now hung up on rails in the storeroom and I have a friend sharing the space in the main room with me. Claire is a textile artist and dressmaker and I have offered some of the…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week the blog has an accompanying playlist on Spotify. The list includes music and sound that references the articles on the blog and you can listen on the link above. If you have a paid subscription you will hear all the music, if you have a free subscription the list will be interspersed with…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
The Spotify playlist this week begins with a choral piece, There will come soft rains, by Ēriks Ešenvalds, a Latvian composer. The short work seems an apt place to begin this week’s music. Each Sunday I compile and curate a playlist of music and sounds to go along with the blog. It is a way…
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Left Bank Gallery Choir
This week the Left Bank Gallery choir met, as usual, on Thursday evening at 6:30pm. The choir was originally set-up for six sessions and those six have now been. This week’s was the best rehearsal yet with work on some existing repertoire and a new song on the way, so the sessions are going to…