MUSICOLOGY


ARTWORK SERIES





A collection of artworks capturing musical vignettes, artists, and settings.



A QUIET MOMENT



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BROKEN ​


The remains of another wild and destructive set by the incomparable A Place To Bury Strangers. Routinely smashing their guitars, fusing them back together, only to be hammered again on the very next show, this performance at Yours & Owls Festival was no exception. With the post-set reverb fading and the haze of the smoke clearing, what was left in amongst the carnage were the battered remains of Oliver Ackermann’s guitar and John Fedowitz bass lying dismembered and disfigured on stage.


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2/8


IN A WORD ​


The lyrical delivery of an artist can be threadbare and aching. It can be a raging, guttural battle cry. Yet it can also be utterly silent. Resting on her guitar stand ahead of her support slot performance, Courtney Barnett's powerful message ablaze on her Fender pickguard was one of defiance, strength, and solidarity. All without speaking a word. Her signature has always been an idiosyncratic, indefinable but quintessentially Melbournian style and the fact that she was opening in a university town at Sydney's Manning Bar for the stubborn, steadfast, and fiercely independent Billy Bragg, made her subtle protest all the more apt and all before a single note was played in anger.


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3/8


LIFE'S A RISK ​


The guitar rack of riotous Los Angeles outfit Fidlar. Notoriously wild, exuberant, and rambunctious, the motto emblazoned across founding member Brandon Schwartzel’s bass guitar is an ethos worn like a badge. Champions for those socially disinfected fringe dwellers railing against jock culture and the institutionally sanctioned heteronormative leanings of American society, ‘Don’t Fear The Weird’ is the subtle phrase that belies the ferocious energy they infectiously display at each and every show they play.


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4/8


SAY MY NAME ​


A single word. The true definition of legacy when your name reverberates throughout the ages, across the generations and between an array of genres. What started with one man continues through to today and the mere mention speaks volumes. The influence still resonating and an ode of the highest order. Garage outfit Los Tones gaffer tape the Kings name to their fender before their own electrifying set begins.


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5/8


CIRCLE OF DEATH ​


Without a hint of pretension, wildcat Kirin J Callinan's subtle, subconscious cross-legged stance belies the pending chaos. Surrounded by fx pedals and shrouded in mist from the overzealous use of fog machines, the array of possible sounds that are due to be unleashed from the pedals he has ensconced himself within, is paralleled only by the unpredictable nature of his live sets and random stagecraft. Yet who would know given his innocent pose in the gentle minutes before the show rumbles into being.


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6/8


A MUSES VIEW ​


In typical The Red Paintings fashion, long after the last note has been played, and the reverb starts to fade as the set draws to a close, what remains is the post-performance afterglow of the physical remnants of their on-stage antics. The art rockers often having invited audience members to pick up a brush and paint a model during their show tended to create some inspired works. Mutually encouraging one form of art with the other, the two mediums would act in unison with the result being whatever stylistic painting fans decided to coat the muse in as she quietly left adorned in a one off design.


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7/8


LYING IN WAIT​


The anticipation of what is about to unfold never wains. No matter how many minutes and hours are spent standing patiently, softly jostling in amongst like-minded fans, and eagerly waiting for a band to play, when the tools of the trade lay before you and the master is yet to take to the stage, it is in the quiet moments before the first note is struck that excitement remains at peak level. Here, the idle Gretsch of Edward Clayton-Jones of The Wreckery sits waiting, as to the crowd keen to hear their beloved albums brought to life stare in readiness.


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THE FINAL MOMENT​


Like the string art that adorns the guitar of husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley of Tennis, the intersecting lines like their lives represent an endless crisscrossing of paths, ideas and shared experiences. As the guitar sat waiting in Utah’s Metro Music Hall, it was the final time it would play in Salt Lake City and for that matter across the country. The pair announcing that the band will be no longer and after numerous albums and decades of amassed material, the tour would be the last.


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