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The NOW now Festival Program 2012
Festival of Exploratory/ Spontaneous/ Experimental/ Improvised/ Outsider/ Other Musics.

This Sunday night we will be featuring a special live 15 minute in studio performance from BLACK CRACKER aka Rishin Singh (Trombone) & Jon Watts (Mixer) to celebrate The NOW now Festival (Thursday January 12-Sunday January 22).

Now in its 11th year(!), The NOW now festival presents music/sound/art without borders. With a wide scope including sound sculpture, improv, composed music, new collaborations, trash rock, noise, silence, electronic music, jazz, comedy, and everything in-between, the inclusive approach requiring only an interest in sound.

Presenting over 100 artists over 7 days the festival is sure to be hugemoungous.

The festival will be featuring well known Australian experimental artists such as Sabine Vogel, Gobble Gobble, Golden Fur, Ben Vida, Black Cracker, Lawrence English Monika Brooks, Laura Altman, Rishin Singh, Chris Abrahams, Jim Denley,  Sam Pettigrew, Adam Sussman, Matt Earle, Aemon Webb, John Wilton, Jason Kahn and much more!

Tune in from 9pm this Sunday night with Brooke Olsen to hear Black Cracker perform live in the studio and chat to us about the festival, and exploratory music of The Now Now.

For full program details and ticket prices head here.

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This Sunday night on Ears Have Ears our soundtrack contributor is 21-year old Sydney musician Oliver Tank.  In October 201 Tank won the FBi Radio’s 2011 Northern Lights competition alongside Sydney artist Rainbow Chan to attend and perform at the Iceland Airwaves Festival in Reykjavik. The festival saw Tank’s first international performance and was followed up a month later with his debut EP release Dreams on Yes Please Records. 

Tank creates spacious lo-fi soundscapes infused with atmospheric electronics and delicately intimate vocals. Compared to the likes of Bon Iver and James Blake, Tank considers Boards of Canada, Nosaj Thing and Jon Hopkins to be among his main musical inspirations.

Over the Christmas break, Tank worked tirelessly on composing an incredible 15 minute electronic orchestral soundtrack exclusively for Ears Have Ears entitled Past, Present, Future.

“I usually found it quite difficult to write long tracks, I feel like its very important to maintain the listeners attention and I also did not want the piece to become to repetitive. The composition runs for a total of 15 minutes. I experimented with some different compositional techniques, such as the sonata form which very basically is an approach in which the song is composed in three sections. As well as this I looked closely at some of my favourite tracks, and how they were put together. Particularly Fill Your Coffee by Arkist. I really enjoyed the way that the composer brought in and out elements systematically.

Song writing is a strange phenomenon. I enjoy that there is a bit of mystery about the was some songs are put together. As I began to work on this track I felt it take on its own momentum and shape. I chose not to stick strictly to any composition style, for the song to take on its own shape I just worked in the moment.

I consider all of the music I compose in one way or another to be experimental. I was always trying to do something original and unique whilst at the same time being accessible. That feeling you get when you listen to a song you’ve never heard before and it just speaks to you in a way nothing else does, that is what i try to produce with all my music. Employing a variety of sounds and instrumentation, more unusual song structure but most importantly being passionate, caring and loving about your work is in my opinion a great way to achieve this.”

-Oliver Tank on Past, Present, Future. 

Tune in this Sunday night from 9pm to hear this incredible soundtrack, plus Tank joins us live in the studio for a quick chat with Ears Have Ears host Brooke Olsen.

Oliver Tank Bandcamp