Words (Collider)

CD Release: Words (Collider)

Recorded in 2012 Collider’s first album Words looks for inspiration from the literary world.

Engage and be authentic – and no it’s not all about the music

In an Arts scene that’s eternally struggling with funding constraints and the drudgery of applications to funding bodies, the idea is seductive: take control of your own funding and free yourself from that disempowering application / rejection cycle you’re forced into via the more traditional funding rounds.

Solo well-read – stark worlds and beautiful soundscapes

Kynan Robinson’s composition ‘Solo in Red’ is being performed at the 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival. Read Festival Director Steve Grimwade’s insights into why he likes to program events combining text and music.

Cognitive dissonance: Kynan Robinson finds musical ideas in the works of Cormac McCarthy

“I was reading Cormac McCarthy a lot, just reading, without a purpose, and I kept going back there and reading it again and again.”