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nadene

Curiouser and curiouser...

About Me

projects/groups/collaborations : a recording project with producer tony dupe aka saddleback (berlin) and myself (bondi) continues... features rick falkiner - guitar, kate adams - cello, claire herbert - laptop (max/msp), hamish stuart - drums/perc, alex hewetson - basses, brendan st leger - piano, tony - the other stuff, me - voice/viola. a band called with paul cutlan - bass clarinet, claire herbert - laptop. a duo with claire. mostly experimental, improvised music. a duo with rick falkiner. gypsy jazz and whatever else takes our fancy. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4i love to sing, play viola, mess around on the computer, making music, family, friends, children, learning, writing, performing, dancing, yoga, the beach (especially bondi, australia and whangaruru, new zealand), nature, technology, diversity, wild far away places, quiet inside spaces.

My Interests

Music:

"revolution", the song on player was written with Matt McMahon and produced by Shoeb Ahmad - lucky me. billie holiday, nina simone, sarah vaughn, bobby mcferrin, gil scott-heron, colleen, betty davis, betty carter, dionne warwick, laurie anderson, leonard cohen, sinnika langeland, pj harvey, joni mitchell, dani siciliano, david sylvian, rokia traore, jimi hendrix, alice and john coltrane, stevie wonder (mostly in the 70's), miles davis, keith jarrett, milton nascimento, astor piazzolla, stéphane grappelli, js bach, erik satie, claude debussy, the necks, joy yates, dave macrae, just to be obtuse about it. there are so many amazing musicians and composers

Movies:

me and you and everyone we know - miranda july. in the mood for love - wong kar-wai. the lives of others - florian henckel von donnersmarck. away from her - sarah polley.

Books:

alice in wonderland - lewis carol. raymond carver. dirt music - tim winton. an equal music - vikram seth. the great fire - shirley hazzard. anton chekhov. katherine mansfield. bell hooks. judith wright. william carlos williams. sylvia plath. emily dickinson. pablo neruda. totem - luke davies. when things fall apart - pema chodron

Heroes:

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." Picasso

My Blog

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As a vocalist and violist, Nadene has experience performing a diverse range of music. Her original compositions contain elements of improvisation, experimental, classical, jazz, world and electro-ac...
Posted by nadene on Fri, 30 May 2008 04:33:00 PST