Sam Dunscombe: Clarinets, Laptop.
Judith Hamann: Cello, Voice, Harp.
James Rushford: Piano, Viola, Organ.
Collaborators: Anthony Pateras, Marco Fusinato, Alex Garsden, Kate Neal, Aviva Endean, Scott Tinkler, Natasha Anderson, Francis Plagne, Sean Baxter, Clinton Green, Deborah Kayser, Peter Neville, Brigid Burke, Thembi Soddell, Neil Sweeney, Josephine Rowe, Joe Talia, Erkki Veltheim, Timothy Phillips, Matthias Schack-Arnott, Patrick O/Brien, Jessica Aszodi, Sophie Brous, Donna Coleman, Kim Tan, Lizzy Welsh, Eugene Ughetti et al.
Influences
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Helmut Lachenmann, Morton Feldman, Jani Christou, Blue Oyster Cult, Cluster, Robert Ashley, Eliane Radigue, Klaus Lang, Robert Rooney, RTX, Filth.Decay.Lies, Damien Hirst, Věra Chytilová, 3-Dimensional Lamb Cake.
Golden Fur is a new music project by three young Melbourne musicians who are re-imagining chamber music in the realms of experimental music and the avant-garde. Thanks to Golden Fur and their collaborators, the seemingly discrete worlds of classical, experimental and indie/DIY music are about to collide.
James, Judith and Sam are kindred spirits, simultaneously inhabiting the worlds of chamber music and the local indie/experimental scene. They formed Golden Fur in 2007 as an idealistic and rebellious project which would synthesise their classical training and their yearning to break away from the often 'cloistered' world of the classical scene.
Golden Fur's quest is to bring a new sonic palette to chamber music, creating a dialogue with the language of experimental music as well as that of visual art. Golden Fur engage with contemporary classical music in youthfully iconoclastic style, adding volume, volatility and theatricality by means of built instruments, electronics, amplification and computers.
Stunning contemporary classical interpretations…Golden Fur are changing the shape of chamber music without forsaking its roots. – The Age, 20/12/08
In performance, the trio displayed a versatile intelligence and totally engaging musicality in their approach to the diverse, and at times challenging, sonic terrain. – Resonate Magazine, 31/01/09
...particularly engaging and challenging. They revealed the increasing slippage between current contemporary classical and exploratory sound and music practices, - RealTime Magazine, 06/09/09
well i was at a party in the bush and this lady who i thought was sexy said to me out of the blue if you were an animal you would be a crab i am staring into a fire in the middle of nowhere and she says i would be a crab
now in the beginning this made me feel a little weird who did this woman think she was no man would be happy with a crab right give him a tiger a lion a horse and eagle but a crab
as the night when on i developed a crab dance that took the heat off me a little bit seems people can love crabs especially when they dance there was crab sex in a tent later that night who would have thought a crab could do such things
two things i have learnt about the crab one is that its teeth are located in its stomach so if i the crab happened to ask that sexy lady to just relax and rest her head on my stomach well you know the rest and secondly if a crab loses his claw in a battle he can just grow it back which would make piano playing interesting
if you want to see the crab dance or the man she says reminded her of crab you can see him and his wonderful talented band this SAT 25 and SUN 26 at the TOFF IN TOWN Swanston St MELB CITY show kicks off around 8 its 10 dollars cause of the recession see you there
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