Listen to Martin Friedel, Cities of the Mind With music by Dan Dediu, Neil Kelly, Pauline Oliveros, Max Reger, Frederic Rzewski.

Exerpt 1: “An interview with Alice, A Chatbox”

Exerpt 2: “God as Mathematician”

From the Fitzroy Town Hall Concert, Sunday October 10, 2010

The Astra Choir, soloists and ensemble conducted by John McCaughey.

For 30 years, the concerts of Astra Chamber Music Society have ranged around Melbourne’s architectural environment. Each concert has had a site-specific design that takes advantage of the marvellous visual qualities, spatial possibilities, and acoustic personality of each building. The music, in turn, contributes a new quality to the perception of the buildings, now experienced by audiences as a sounding space - an area where cultural issues from music’s history are traversed, and new ideas in Australian composition are explored.

Listen to Excerpt 1: Catherine Schieve, from Rock and Light Tracing (2006)

recorded sounds, instruments, free music machine.

Excerpt from the Reading Room Fitzroy Library Concert on Sunday November 5, 2006.

For 30 years, the concerts of Astra Chamber Music Society have ranged around Melbourne’s architectural environment. Each concert has had a site-specific design that takes advantage of the marvellous visual qualities, spatial possibilities, and acoustic personality of each building. The music, in turn, contributes a new quality to the perception of the buildings, now experienced by audiences as a sounding space - an area where cultural issues from music’s history are traversed, and new ideas in Australian composition are explored.