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24.01.2022 If you've ever been to a Dots+Loops show, these folks need absolutely no introduction... it's local favourites Nonsemble! Inhabiting a space between contemporary classical and adventurous pop music, Nonsemble's output ranges from sprawling and evocative modern compositions to meticulously crafted chamber-pop. For Dots+Loops Reboot, they'll be opening the show with a suite of BRAND NEW WORKS by their synth/guitarist extraordinaire Chris Perren for strings and electronics, and it's sure to kick off the night right Make sure you buy tickets in advance Pay-what-you-can, minimum $5 before they're all gone!

23.01.2022 Ken Thomson + Black Square String Quartet blew us all away at Dots+Loops Nonstop, with two vividuly virtuosic performances of stunning music by Ken himself. Here's the second piece of their set, "Pall", in its Australian premiere! Are you an emerging Australian composer? Would you like to be featured at Nonstop 2020, with a brand new piece of yours performed by our International Artist-in-Residence? Would you like to be hooked up with some of the coolest, nicest and most tale...nted composers, producers and performers in the post-genre world to help you create your new work? If so, apply now for our Composition Fellowship! dotsandloops.com.au/news/inaugural-composition-fellowship. Entries close 20 April! : Ken Thomson + Black Square String Quartet perform "Pall" by Ken Thomson, for Dots+Loops Nonstop, 7 December 2019 at Newstead Brewing Co. Milton. Videography by Will France.

22.01.2022 New podcast episode out today!!! In this episode of Joining the Dots, Flora chats to cellist, educator and all-round mover and shaker Louise King about working as an artist in regional Queensland and embedding creativity into her teaching practice, as she shares some fantastic advice for chamber musicians. Available on all streaming services: https://anchor.fm/dots-and-loops

22.01.2022 Check out the first video episode of Joining the Dots, our new online video tutorial series!! In this episode, have a little peek into inner workings of the music making mind of composer/producer Chris Perren, as he takes us through creating song from scratch with only an iPad!

21.01.2022 Introducing Oliver Brown!!! We’re super thrilled to have selected Oliver as the inaugural Dots+Loops Composition Fellow for 2020/21 Over the next 18 months Oliver is working with the incredibly multitalented composers/performers/producers Eve Klein and Madeleine Cocolas, as well as our Associate Director and in-house composer Connor D’Netto, having regular mentor ship sessions, and developing an exciting new work for cello and electronics to be premiered at the end of the ...year. We can’t wait to see what they come up with, so stay tuned! Get to know Oliver and their amazing work on our website: https://www.dotsandloops.com.au//introducing-oliver-brown-

20.01.2022 Explore the insides of the piano with pianist and composer Erik Griswold, as he takes you through his techniques for preparing a piano to create some strange and beautiful otherworldly sounds.

20.01.2022 27 March 2021 ~ Dots+Loops Vibrations ~ SAVE THE DATE

19.01.2022 27 March 2021 ~ Dots+Loops Vibrations ~ SAVE THE DATE To say we’re kicking off 2021 with a bang would be an understatementthis party will be completely wild Put the night in your calendar, put it in your friends’ / partners’ / housemates’ calendar, put it in your neighbours’ / therapist’s / bus driver’s calendar, and make sure you all check back in on 24 February for the full lineup announcement and to grab your tickets. We can’t wait to share all the exciting ~ v i b e s ~ with you!

17.01.2022 Happy New Years everyone! After a couple weeks off to recharge, we're super excited to be back with a new episode of #JoiningTheDots featuring one of our fabulous friends from abroad, Nick Photinos, cellist! Join Nick as he takes you through a quick-start guide to performing with Ableton Live, guiding you through every step from choosing the right microphone, to setting up your Live session, building a click track and getting read to get on stage. Featuring a very special performance of Nathalie Joachim's gorgeous Dam Mwen Yo

15.01.2022 A new episode of the #JoiningTheDots podcast is up, featuring Nick Photinos, cellist!! Kieran chats to Nick about founding one of the biggest groups in new music in Eighth Blackbird, then striking his own path as a solo artist; they discuss the burden of interpretation and question what needs to change in classical music education; and they debate how to correctly pronounce the trending Netflix show Emily in Paris. Available to listen on all your favourite steaming platforms :)

14.01.2022 We're so excited to share a preview of Joining the Dots with you! Stay tuned to all of our socials for full episodes coming very soon! https://anchor.fm/dots-and-loops

13.01.2022 Teachers, the wonderful team at Short Black Opera lead by the ever inspiring Deborah Cheetham have created this fantastic initiative, please share with your students that might be eligible to apply!

12.01.2022 On this episode of Joining the Dots, get to know multi-faceted singer Lotte Betts-Dean as she takes us through some of her favourite weird and wonderful extended vocal techniques, including multiphonics and Sprechgesang, plus some super helpful warm ups and ear training exercises.

12.01.2022 Need something weird, wild and wonderful for you Sunday arvo viewing? Check out Dots+Loops favourite Lotte Betts-Dean in this spellbinding performance of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire with Manchester Collective as part of their MC Isolation Broadcasts series.

11.01.2022 Hi all, Kieran here, Dots+Loops' founder and director. Dots+Loops began as a post-genre concert series, under a purposefully post-modernist framework. Yes, a lot of what we do stems from the classical music tradition. But as per our post-modernist roots, what we do is just as much a reaction against classical music. I do not consider ourselves a classical music organisation, because I have as many issues with the tradition as I have reasons to love it. I've been reading a lo...t of platitudes from classical music organisations talking about how they need to "do better" and how they are "committed to learning". Acknowledging (and more importantly, acting on) these sentiments is important. But for us to enact real change for black lives, we need *systematic* change and rebuilding. It's a plain fact that classical music is a euro-centric traditionand is very often racist. If black people (and other POC) want to be a part of classical music, they should be welcomed with open arms. We only grow from diversity. Classical music organisations "offering" black creatives "opportunities" to compose for, or perform with them is great. But it's important to realise that these "opportunities" are as much, or even more, for the benefit of classical music and the organisations offering them, than they may be for the black people they're offered to. *Without systematic change, it's just another form of colonialism*. When youexplicitly or implicitlydictate the framework that black creatives need to operate under to work with youa framework built on whitenessit's colonialism. Real change can only come from honest, open and conscious learning and collaboration. This conversation is not about us. It's about black voices. But I do feel compelled to be the best ally I can, and I think it's really important me and my colleagues in the greater contemporary art music sphere really think about this from a different perspective. However, If you do care, I will do another post soon with what we have done, and what we are specifically doing now at Dots+Loops to enact real change, and not just spread meaningless platitudes. In the mean time, solidarity, love and hope to everyone fighting because #BlackLivesMatter. They matter in America, and here in Australia. I live, and Dots+Loops operates on Turrbal and Jagera land, land that was never ceded but was stolen by force, and the first inhabitants of our land still routinely experience so much violence, discrimination, poor health and so much more as a result of this colonialism. We need to learn. We need to be and do better. You can start by turning up to Black Lives Matter - Stop Black Deaths In Custody Meanjin (BNE) this Saturday! #alwayswasalwayswillbe #aboriginalland.

09.01.2022 None of us would be where we are today without the support of our community, and our primary goal is to give back to and build this community. However, arts funding in Australia is scarcer than ever, and at the same time, COVID-19 has resulted in a significant reduction in arts employment, creation and education. This makes the generous financial support of our patrons vital to the continuation and sustainability of Dots+Loops. Support for our 2020 projects is welcomed via t...he Australian Cultural Fund. Between Joining the Dots and Reboot, every cent donated will help provide employment for over forty artists and artsworkers during this unprecedented time of disruption to the arts community. All donations over $2 made through the Australian Cultural Fund are tax-deductible. We can’t thank you enough for your support! Visit https://www.dotsandloops.com.au/donate to donate today.

08.01.2022 Have you bought tickets for Dots+Loops Reboot yet? Make sure you grab them quick as its likely to sell our! It's just over two weeks away and we're getting super excited, so in the lead up we're going to introduce all the artists involved in the show. First up is a new and VERY IMPORTANT addition to the lineup, Tristan Rogers! Trumpeter, improviser and composer, Tristan is making waves around the local jazz, hip hop and neo-soul scene. BUT, Tristan also makes some of the best... handmade sourdough pizza in Brisbane! Pizza has been an obsession of mine for many years now. What started as a Monday Night all-you-can-eat frenzy has now turned into a fun little side hustle. I noticed myself quickly becoming a ‘crust snob’, I would be pretty devastated having to wait half an hour and spend upwards of $25 on a pizza base that wasn’t all that flash. I want to deliver a high quality, hand-stretched Neapolitan pizza at a fraction of cost. Armed with a Gozney Roccbox and my 65% hydration dough, I’m ready to sling a ‘za to you street food style! Tristan will be slinging some of his legendary handmade sourdough pizzas at REBOOT, so arrive hungry! $15 for a pizza, $2 to add salami, and vegan options are available

06.01.2022 In this week's episode of #JoiningTheDots, composer and producer Connor D'Netto gives you a guided tour into the wild and wonderful world of Cycling '74 Max/MSP/Jitter (also just known as Max or Max 8), showing you all the basics you need to know to get started building your own patches, walking you through some examples, and explaining how to integrate Max with Ableton Live.

05.01.2022 We were so thrilled to commission a new piece from Brenda Gifford, for Figbird to premiere at Dots+Loops Nonstop last December. Relive the stunning piece below, and read more about Brenda at dotsandloops.com.au/people/brenda-gifford. We can't thank our mentor and donor Patricia Pollett enough for supporting the commission. Figbird are Hannah Reardon-Smith (who first proposed the commission!), Flora Wong and Loni Fitzpatrick. Videography by Will France, and beautiful space is courtesy of Newstead Brewing Co.. Filmed live at Dots+Loops Nonstop, 7 December 2019.

05.01.2022 Episode 3 of our podcast #JoiningTheDots is OUT NOW! In this episode, Flora Wong has a chat with flautist/composer/improviser Jodie Rottle about her move from New York to Brisbane, late-night sonic discoveries with an electric toothbrush, and blurring the lines between music, sound art and object puppetry.

04.01.2022 Want to make some delicious music by thinking outside the box? Jodie Rottle's got you covered! Check out this video that we made together last week. It's definitely the most creative thing you'll see today!

03.01.2022 We have some exciting news to share with you! We are thrilled to announce the launch of Joining the Dots, and provide an exciting update on our Fellowship Program for 2020. Joining the Dots brings together our community’s experience in live arts events to produce an easily accessible digital series. Across engaging and informative video tutorials and podcasts, we aim to entertain, enrich and inspire our community through performance, conversation and education. Keep your ey...es peeled, the series launches in only a few days! From classical and folk performers to DJs and producers, visual artists to writers, from making music with your iPad to drawing otherworldly sounds from a piano, the series has something for everyone at all levels of experience. The 2020 series of Joining the Dots goes live on 6 August 2020, featuring 11 podcasts and 10 video tutorials, released on alternating weeks. www.dotsandloops.com.au/joiningthedots Led by composer and Dots+Loops Associate Director Connor D’Netto, the Composition Fellowship each year supports emerging composers interested in taking their music beyond the traditions of the classical concert hall. The Dots+Loops Inaugural Composition Fellow for 2020 is Oliver Brown. Over the next year and a half, Oliver will work with mentors Eve Klein, Madeleine Cocolas, Connor D’Netto and our soon-to-be announced 2021 International Artist in Residence, on a newly commissioned work, to be premiered at Nonstop 2021. Currently studying composition at Monash University, Oliver describes himself as ‘The Guy At The Supermarket Wearing One Too Many Clashing Patterns’. Not only a composer, Oliver’s work spreads across visual art, photography, performance art and more, with a keen interest creating works that are community-grounded and surprising. Stay tuned to our website and socials for more news coming from us soon!

03.01.2022 Come and play with flautist/composer Jodie Rottle in this week's episode of Joining the Dots, as she takes you through some tactics and ideas for creating music with everyday objects!

03.01.2022 LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT Are you ready to party? Well we have the show for you! Welcome to Dots+Loops Vibrations, the avant-house party of your dreams It's going to be a wild night featuring some of the most wonderful and weird duos we could find Shugorei, Throat Pleats and Provocative Vibrations, plus everyone's fave DJ Airport!... We're also super excited to be returning to one of our fave spaces, Newstead Brewing Co. so the beer will be a plenty. So grab your tickets (pay-what-you-can-afford) and join us as we dive headlong into gleeful musical mayhem. George Levi Shugorei

02.01.2022 As we lead up to Dots+Loops Vibrations, we're also in the middle of our 2021 fundraising campaign! It's been a super tough time for funding, so every dollar donated is a step towards us effectively and sustainably creating inclusive, community-celebrating post-genre arts events. Plus, anything over $2 is tax-deductibleso helping us out is a win-win! Chip in today at https://australianculturalfund.org.au/proje/dotsloops-2021/, and help create the Brisbane you want to see (and hear!).

02.01.2022 Two artists in our Dots+Loops extended family released (phenomenal) albums today! Tilman Robinson's Culturecide is his debut on Bedroom Community, and the album is as big a deal as landing a spot on the label! His third studio album, Culturecide "is an investigation of the anthropocene; a seven part lamentation for our chaotic world." If you like stunning ambient soundscapes, big ominous bass and glitchy electronics as much as we do, it's a must-listen. Seriously, Tilman's so...und-design is mindblowing! https://tilmanrobinson.bandcamp.com/album/culturecide Bec Plexus (FKA Brechtje) has also just landed on a big deal label, and releases her debut album STICKLIP on New Amsterdam today! "Introducing the wildly playful avant electronica of Amsterdam-based Bec Plexus, whose musical mantra is to invite and invert. Her meticulously structured debut recording STICKLIP wanders to unexpected places with each song serving as a channel for a secret to be revealed: an absurdist confessional booth in the church of Bec Plexus." We've loved being a part of Bec's musical journey since we first commissioned her in 2017, and this is such an exciting summation of her unique musical and artistic voice! https://becplexus.bandcamp.com/album/sticklip What do you think of these super rad releases?

02.01.2022 On this episode of Joining the Dots, come party with DJ, violist, producer (and Dots+Loops founder) Kieran Welch as he breaks down the art of DJing, covering some history and basic techniques, tips for getting started, and sharing insight into how DJing influences his entire artistic career

01.01.2022 As with almost everyone else in the world, we originally had quite different plans for 2020. In particular, Dots+Loops annual festival Nonstop was planned for this December, and has had to be postponed to 2021. Instead, as the COVID-19 pandemic emerged and changed the way we currently live our lives, we have worked tirelessly on new ways to bring our community back together, safely. Joining the Dots is purpose-designed to bring our community back together in a temporarily phy...sically distanced world, providing artists with paid work, and providing free skill-building for our community. In doing so, we’re creating a safe digital space for our whole extended Dots+Loops family, new and old, to join together and celebrate exciting, adventurous and thought-provoking art, at a time when we need it more than ever. Buuuuuut - we want to hang out in person too! So, we have a save the date! December 12, 2020: Dots+Loops Reboot. This intimate event will be an opportunity for our local Dots+Loops family to once again celebrate live music in the flesh, support local Brisbane artists, and bring our community back together, all in a safe and socially distanced way. We don’t want to give too much away just yet, but we are so excited to see you again. Keep your eyes on our newsletter and socials for more details coming soon!