Frank Millward | Public figure
Frank Millward
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25.01.2022 WHAT WE THOUGHT WE KNEW | We have the urge to know more about what we know but also would like to know more about What We Thought We Knew, a track from The Museum of Hope Did we know that or did we forget where it was? Was it real or did we put it together from things we thought we knew? If youve read thus far you know exactly what I mean. Confused? We all are because who is it that really knows what we think we know to be true? Listen to What We Thought We Knew featuring ...Ray Alldridge, Laurie Thompson, Brendan Clarke and Frank Millward listen here and perhaps be enlightened: https://frank3.bandcamp.com/track/what-we-thought-we-knew The Museum of Hope is a site-responsive work, music was written in response to the area around Brooklyn and Mooney Mooney on the Hawkesbury River. The river has an endless stream of knowledge and it talks, all you need to do is listen.
25.01.2022 Visual Music refers to the translation of sounds or music into a related visual form, sometimes called Colour Music. An expanded definition may include the translation of music to painting; this was the original definition of the term, as coined by Roger Fry in 1912 to describe the work of Wassily Kandinsky.
25.01.2022 Adrian Evans is one of the UKs leading directors and creative producers. In 2013, Adrian led the Thames Festival Trust through a period of transition. He won the backing of the Mayor of London, Arts Council England and London First to develop Totally Thames, a month-long season of cultural events and marketing activity in September to promote the river as a tourism destination and establish a culturally significant festival for all Londoners and visitors. Here he give a couple of sentences about that great river
25.01.2022 THE BEIJING OPERA It seems the arts in China are also under the cosh! In recent years, Beijing opera has attempted numerous reforms, including improvement of performance quality, adaption of new performance elements, and the introduction of new and original plays to boost sagging attendance. Some Western works have been adopted as new plays, but a lack of funding and an adverse political climate have left Beijing operas fate uncertain as the form enters the twenty-first century. No chance of them getting a Japanese patron to stage a Beijing Opera on a barge in the middle of the Yongding River.
24.01.2022 We didnt go down to the river We went down to the tunnel Learning about those bad old days Wed go down to the tunnel And through the tunnel wed ride... Under the waters and out of river wed rise Onto the shore and onto the banks And to the tellers wed cry Give us back the wealth you took to keep yourselves afloat Give us back our livelihood And the right to a proper vote Stopped from going down We had to go under, so We went down to the tunnel. Living underground. See more
23.01.2022 An Interview with TREVOR STUART from CCoCOLoCo Cocoloco believes in poetry, cinema, tennis, laughter, sex over lunch, lunch over sex, parties, dinners, oysters, red wine, sashimi, fresh orange juice, marmite, vegemite, Lenny Bruce, Radio 4, dolphins, volcanoes, Malcolm Lowry, surfing, Idiot Wind, lavatorial humour, crop rotation, dressing up, the art gallery cafe, karaoke, Lumiere & Son, Eric Dolphy, Incident at Owl Creek, fondue, Noam Chomsky, Sisyphus, Bob Dobbs, Zippy, ..
22.01.2022 LONDON MEMORIES: KEN'S STORY | Heres a story that needs to be heard. Ken was a collector, have a look at what he was collecting! This piece is from the project, London Memories, a collaboration with Michela Magas founder of Stromatolite (https://www.stromatolite.com/) sponsored by Creativeworks, London. This is one of more than thirty short videos that locate memories as pin drops on a Google Map.
22.01.2022 The pieces on this recording are played by Sally Mays, a widely celebrated Australian composer and pianist, who lived most of her life in London. She passed away, May 2018. These pieces were recorded with her over a ten-year period, twenty-two solo piano works written especially for her. As an avid supporter of Australian composers, she was a great friend and colleague. Listen on Bandcamp here: https://frank3.bandcamp.com/ In remembrance of Sally.
20.01.2022 The Jazz Cat Miao (with a French accent) Yes, theres Basie, Miller, Satchmo And the king of all, Sir Duke Theres lots of cats hangin out... Like Mathew, Mark and Luke The real book says Nows The time When the Jazz Police come to call Its all straight! like After the Ball, So just take a bow Let the jazz cats miao Cause that means now It will all be swinging cats! This piece does NOT swing Listen here: https://frank3.bandcamp.com/track/the-jazz-cat-miaou
20.01.2022 The talk on the street was robust, the interaction was friendly and the onlookers were engaged in following the language used. After all, when does a Tuba get to express itself so eloquently and have a chance of being heard above the crowd?. . . . .... . . . . #frankmillward #frankmillwardmusic #musicalcomposition #museumofhope #bandcamp #australiancomposer #composers #soundsoflife #composer #composersofaustralia #tuba #streetmusicians #jazz #jazzonthestreet See more
19.01.2022 The Great Wall of China kept intruders out but also kept things in and made trade on the Silk Road controllable Boarders are closed and then reopened and sometimes closed again. There is a long history of walls and boarders: Berlin, Rome, Western, Hadrians and Jerichos, where legend has it, that it was a very loud E chord played on trumpets made of rams horns that brought it tumbling down.
18.01.2022 The Jazz Cat Miaoú (with a French accent) Yes, there's Basie, Miller, Satchmo And the king of all, Sir Duke Theres lots of cats hangin out... Like Mathew, Mark and Luke The real book says Nows The time When the Jazz Police come to call Its all straight! like After the Ball, So just take a bow Let the jazz cats miaoú Cause that means now It will all be swinging cats! This piece does NOT swing Listen here: https://frank3.bandcamp.com/track/the-jazz-cat-miaou
18.01.2022 Some things just want to make you dance, so off you go to the shop and pick up a unicycle and a red nose. Remembering Pinnochio and the words that lie beneath the subtitle of your next headline, CLOWN DANCE 2 The wild and crazy act you hoped you would always deliver, the Tarantino fantasies you serve up. Then you discovered your elongated nose upset your bicycle balance, and just like Jiminy told you and Humpty, everything could end before you fall - no ones laughing in Disneyland! Listen here: https://frank3.bandcamp.com/track/clown-dance-2
17.01.2022 SHADOW ECONOMIES You got ya Quantitative Easing, trickle down, amortisation and ya absolute advantage Then ya got, Austrian, Regan, Thatcher and Keynes, and ya Chicago School of Economics, followed by consensus, arbitration, work place agreements, run by the cartels at competitive advantage for Hedge Fund traders manipulating market forces to inflate house prices and make money laundering easy in big banks that cooperate, not forgetting Alan Greenspan and the good work he wil...l put in for ya. Then you can include Hyper-inflation, neo-liberalism, ordinary Liberals not to be confused with the liberal minded and the true believers in life-cycle hypothesis giving advantage to the leveraged buy-out. In there somewhere is ya profit share, ya price elasticity / discrimination / earnings ratio and regulation. Protectionism, inflation, deflation, stagnation and ya supply / demand curves And when ya do the Cost-benefit analysis what da ya get? Dividends and returns, well, that is if your financial liquidity is flowing if not you are cactus! See more
16.01.2022 Pink tree Shall we ever see Anything as lovely? Will there always be a Bee To fly free... To do the duty Afforded you and me Making honey From flowers on a tree See more
15.01.2022 LONDON MEMORIES: KENS STORY | Heres a story that needs to be heard. Ken was a collector, have a look at what he was collecting! This piece is from the project, London Memories, a collaboration with Michela Magas founder of Stromatolite (https://www.stromatolite.com/) sponsored by Creativeworks, London. This is one of more than thirty short videos that locate memories as pin drops on a Google Map.
15.01.2022 Splitz Broken shattered fragmented Fractured splintered exploded Crumbled decayed deteriorated... Cut chopped lopped cracked Torn busted discontinued No longer in operation Shut down bordered off Stopped held up See more
15.01.2022 Some will sing Some will pray Some still shout to be heard Infinity not numbered Counting every line ... When years dove-tail Sunrise to setting sun Everywhere everything Everyone every day Every way every time With every breath we notice Fragments start to fall off As it rains down heavily in Hong Kong See more
13.01.2022 LONDON MEMORIES: DEPTFORD ST NICHOLAS CHURCH GRAVEYARD | Follow the camera to the final resting place of Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist, Poet and Translator. Englands greatest playwright before Shakespeare, he raised Renaissance tragedy from its stilted origins into a powerful and emotionally compelling art His pioneering mastery of blank verse made it the standard medium for English dramatic and epic poetry. Marlowes most famous play, "The Tragical History of Doct...or Faustus" (c.1589), was the first dramatisation of the Faust legend. The unsettling complexities of his work, combined with a mysterious life and violent death at the age of 29, have made him a legendary figure. See: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8017/christopher-marlowe This piece is from the project, London Memories, a collaboration with Michela Magas founder of Stromatolite (https://www.stromatolite.com/) sponsored by Creativeworks, London. This is one of more than thirty short videos that locate memories as pin drops on a Google Map.
13.01.2022 Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang, perhaps for several days, until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation. It is used as a punishment by conservative governments for studies in the Humanities. The Crucifixion Blues Listen here played by Sally Mays https://frank3.bandcamp.com/track/the-crucifixion-blues... and Here played by Antony Grey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEPwnCDrHMo See more
13.01.2022 Coming up - an interview with artist Adam James. At the heart of his practice is a desire to bring people together in order to understand the self and to open up new ways of being and interacting. He uses non-verbal play to encourage forms of dialogue, mediation and the reconsideration of sameness and difference. Subscribe to the Go On Then channel to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7dBVGmoGfIZUJHaKt_DqjQ
13.01.2022 We live on the shoreline We dance in the sand We surf the sound of waves that float on air We sing in the seasons ... talk to the rivers listen to the rain We shine in the sun We drink in the desert We dream in the clouds ride through the scrub ramble down the road look up to the stars for songs about moonlight pitched in the past harmonised in the future We live in the now Escaping to the sidelines We duck round the corners burn off climb up and cut down the tall We keep an eye on the weather
13.01.2022 UPCOMING INTERVIEW: Trevor Stuart & Helen Statman | From a world where Alice in Wonderland meets The Shining, performance troupe Cocoloco presents raucous, hilarious and ever so slightly bent theatre This is cabaret performance and street theatre with a twist. Cocolocos work has been described as the high art of madness to perfection, a legendary company seen at many international Festivals. Well known in Australia for appearances at Woodford, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne ...and Perth Festivals. CoCoLoCo believes in poetry, cinema, tennis, laughter, sex over lunch, lunch over sex, parties, dinners, oysters, red wine, sashimi, fresh orange juice, Marmite, Vegemite, Lenny Bruce, Radio 4, dolphins, volcanoes, Malcolm Lowry, surfing, Idiot Wind, lavatorial humour, crop rotation, dressing up, the art gallery cafe, karaoke, Lumiere & Son, Eric Dolphy, Incident at Owl Creek, fondue, Noam Chomsky, Sisyphus, Bob Dobbs, Zippy, schadenfreude, nudes, descending staircases, the Higgs boson, Arsenal F.C., D.N.A., L.S.D., S.W.P., the G Spot, Bimbotown, Adolph Wolfli, Sergeant Bilko, the Marquis de Sade, Louis Ferdinand Celine, E.M. Cioran, Georges Bataille, Diogenes, the muse, the news, the hypotenuse, ergonomics, farce, Harvey Sid Fisher, Vito Rocco, Slavoj Zizek, authenticity, appropriation, Alfred Jarry, 44, synchronicity, serendipity, sunrise, the specific, the general, Buster Keaton, Samuel Beckett, El Triunfo de la Muerte, the end, for now Coming soon to Go On Then. Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7dBVGmoGfIZUJHaKt_DqjQ
13.01.2022 ALMOST HAD THE BLUES | You can get em riding You can get em slidin You can get me rollin You can get em bowlin But sometimes you might have to admit that you just cant get em at all ... That once, when you thought you had em Nah! How could you have em When you own so much real estate! Almost Had the Blues. Listen to what its like for the dogs howling at the moon. https://frank3.bandcamp.com/track/almost-had-the-blues
12.01.2022 Keep walking, keep talking Keep striding, keep riding Keep hold of the patterns that roll with a stroll A walk on the beach or a dream out of reach The sand between toes ... That tune no one knows That strangers who try The rolling waves and the cloudy sky Wandering in search of a reason why We just keep walking Just like Hal said to Bert Just walk on by See more
12.01.2022 Heather Keens will release a series of songs starting in July. Here she sings Strange You Can Name Music F. Millward Lyrics L. Gasteen. Live performance with Camerata of St Johns with Helen & Steve Russell et al. at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, 2016, Carlo Lloyd Benefit. . Head to the link in bio for the Go On Then YouTube channel
12.01.2022 In this interview, Charlie talks about her work as a co-director for Wellcomes Created Out of Mind team, where she has been developing interdisciplinary research projects which aim to raise awareness about lesser known impacts of dementias at social, personal and cellular levels. Collaborating with people living with rare forms of these conditions and pioneering scientific research at UCLs, her projects investigate the powerful metaphors used to describe and articulate these neurodegenerative conditions. Watch it on the Go On Then YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7dBVGmoGfIZUJHaKt_DqjQ
11.01.2022 Ramesh Sathiah is Partner and Creative Director of Song Zu, one of the most awarded and established music and sound design companies in the Asia Pacific region. Starting in the music industry in recording studios as an engineer and producer, Ramesh was later introduced to the world of screen composing writing for television shows such as Beyond 2000. In 1996, Ramesh started working for Song Zu Sydney. Within three years and at the age of twenty-five, he was made Creative Dir...ector of Song Zu Singapore. His work took him across the globe and he contributed to worldwide and regional campaigns for some of the worlds biggest brands. Head to the Go On Then YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDZ5cznEVrw
08.01.2022 LONDON MEMORIES: NEW CROSS LEARNING | New Cross Learning (NXL) (formerly known as the New Cross Peoples Library) is a community-run space offering a library service and a bookshop as well as a wide range of learning activities, supported by registered charity Bold Vision New Cross Learning provides free computer/internet use, Wifi, newspapers and magazines. NXL has desk spaces to work, and they also run learning activities and workshops, including writing and knitting work...shops. They also run a lending library of over 5,000 books (supported by Lewisham Council) This piece is from the project, London Memories, a collaboration with Michela Magas founder of Stromatolite (https://www.stromatolite.com/) sponsored by Creativeworks, London. This is one of more than thirty short videos that locate memories as pin drops on a Google Map.
08.01.2022 How many yesterdays have been let go? Each evening counting the marked off days We sit in the presence of things we may no longer need Reminders of the ways we postponed living in tomorrows
08.01.2022 Check out this interview with Helen Statman from CoCoLoCo
07.01.2022 THE FLIGHT PATHS OF BIRDS | Leonardo di Vinci produced a manuscript on the flight of birds, Codice sul volo degli uccelli (Codex on the flight of birds) Way ahead of his time, he imagined that people would fly. In his writings he outlined a number of observations and concepts that were to find a place in the development of a successful airplane in the early 20th century. As an artist he was blessed with the powers of insightful observation, to be able to observe and subsequently use that observation to develop ideas and extended modes of expression that challenged our perceptions and assumptions. Take a listen here: https://frank3.bandcamp.com/track/flightpath-of-birds
06.01.2022 LONDON MEMORIES: DEPTFORD ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH GRAVEYARD | Follow the camera to the final resting place of Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist, Poet and Translator. England's greatest playwright before Shakespeare, he raised Renaissance tragedy from its stilted origins into a powerful and emotionally compelling art His pioneering mastery of blank verse made it the standard medium for English dramatic and epic poetry. Marlowe's most famous play, "The Tragical History of Doct...or Faustus" (c.1589), was the first dramatisation of the Faust legend. The unsettling complexities of his work, combined with a mysterious life and violent death at the age of 29, have made him a legendary figure. See: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8017/christopher-marlowe This piece is from the project, London Memories, a collaboration with Michela Magas founder of Stromatolite (https://www.stromatolite.com/) sponsored by Creativeworks, London. This is one of more than thirty short videos that locate memories as pin drops on a Google Map.
05.01.2022 If you are to face crossing a bridge, there are things that need to be considered. Perhaps contemplate its crossing or rather, wait till it presents itself as a bridge before crossing in plain English When you come to it, cross it Sometimes bridges can disappear, you look ahead and realise its just the open road ahead.
05.01.2022 Cow The cow is a much-maligned animal. She has been made to take the blame for much of the man-made environmental problems the planet is now having to deal with. It must be pointed out that the cow is an animal that has suffered this maligning in silence. Not a word but for the deep mournful moan that humans interpret as soothing. Well now is the time to fight for the rights of the cow! The beast has been exploited, punished and butchered enough! Cows have a right to freedom, not to be enslaved and imprisoned in paddocks and have their bodily fluids removed and sold. Lets boycott milk and the misappropriation of the word! Especially in the phrase the milk of human kindness, for what a load of rubbish that must sound like to a cow!
04.01.2022 Sometime people believe in God, but they dont believe in themselves
04.01.2022 Museum of Hope - now on Spotify and iTunes. Stream on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/19ykri4v7DgdRgKegua3Qv
04.01.2022 STILT DANCE Cruising on the edge of time We make our way to Memories where photographs Are held on paper cards... Shuffling in minimally abstracted space We look for escape routes to never land Floating three feet in the air Feet never touching ground We run the borders Searching new ways to an old world Almost forgotten are The circus of stilt dancers Singing and praying As the Mantis dances through The distance between heaven and hell Listen here: https://frank3.bandcamp.com/track/stilt-dance See more
03.01.2022 Featuring the voice of HEATHER KEENS Dancer - Rhiannon Newton Words & Music - Frank Millward Mix and Mastering Audio & Video - Paul Draper Video shot by Ian Slade ... Guitar and Rhythm section production - Dave Colton Saxophones - Chris Caldwell (Delta Saxophone) Bass - Brendan Clarke Drums - Lawrie Thompson Keys, Sampling and production - Frank Millward See more
02.01.2022 When we danced We floated by We saw the fires fly We heard the angels cry Baby that was years ago... We’ve left it all behind Or so it seems Or was that the dream Was the dancing in between The times we remembered? Living on a reflection Heading down the river All in one direction We’re only getting older Can we please go out tonight? See more
01.01.2022 DINING WITH ALICE | A piece commissioned by the Salisbury Festival staged at the Lamer Tree Victorian Pleasure Garden also performed at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival (pictured here). Two hundred and fifty-six guests, each with their own personal waiter, enjoy a five course al fresco dinner hosted by the characters from Alice in Wonderland. Each course is taken at a different location ending with coffee and jelly and a concert performed by their hosts and a choir of singing... waiters. In this image we see the Red Queen (Di Sherlock) and the Duchess (Heather Keens) performing the piece Old Mother Hubbard Concept and Direction by Hilary Westlake, Music by Frank Millward, Text by David Gale, Design by Simon Corder, and costumes by Katy McPhee. Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/millward/old-mother-hubbard
