Gail Priest

This very timely anthology, edited by sound artist, writer and curator Gail Priest, is quite probably the most compelling collection of essays about the Australian experimental music scene to have been compiled. Experimental music has been mostly unrecognised in Australia, but it is in this ‘underground’ area that the major innovations and creative developments in music occur. Through testing perceived boundaries, breaking rules and creating new forms, the artists in this field force us to question what, in fact, music is. Written by artists who have been actively engaged in the areas they are covering, Experimental Music  explores the development of forms, ideas and scenes from the 1970s to the present.
It includes a companion CD with unreleased before and rare live material from Teletopa in 1971, The Loop Orchestra in 1982, Lucas Abela’s glass blowing shenanigans, Severed Heads, Biftek, Rod Cooper.