In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits.

In Reality Blues, Meaghan Garvey tries to find out what is real, song by song. This week, she spotlights Malibu’s singular ...

Over nearly six decades, this fantastically inventive artist experimented with paint, turning it into a sculptural medium.

With their shared fascination with ideas and forming new shapes, David Cronenberg and Howard Shore are one of cinema’s most adventurous director-composer partnerships. Here we explore their fertile ...

Considered a genius and visionary songwriter, Beefheart mixed surrealism, free jazz and blues rock to create works of wonder alongside his Magic Band. Again, his work wasn’t entirely unique, but there ...

That period culminated in “Birmingham 1964”, a work Whitten accurately described as a “wound”. Through a hole gouged out of ...

Throughout its history jazz has been in fashion and out of it – but it’s never gone away. Jazz is at its heart Black American ...

Carl Dewhurst is among the great chameleons of Australian music. Were each of the manifold projects in which he’s been ...

Fans of the renowned soul band Maze, founded by the late Frankie Beverly, will be delighted that TMF (The Music Forever), ...

The album investigates Dewhurst compositions (and a reinvention of Charlie Parker’s Ornithology) lying well outside the old NUDE remit of drawing on Ornette Coleman’s harmolodic concept.

That was my ethos." And Carson has certainly delivered. Who else but MOM would conceive of pairing Ornette Coleman with Irish traditional musicians? Coleman's "Belfast Suite" premiered in the Whitla ...