# Mindy Meng Wang

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Origin of You: Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 and Sui Zhen

Origin of You by Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 and Sui Zhen is a highly personal musical exploration of lived experiences of migration, motherhood, grief and reconnecting with identity.   The album uses three central motifs: 空 (Kōng), or Emptiness; 疼 (Téng), or Pain; 气 (Chi), sometimes known as ‘Energy’ to e…

Behind the Scenes 4th November 2024

Yuhui Ng Rodriguez is here for our November Theatre Network Australia segment. She’ll catch us up on the This Is How We Do It report into the working trends of the independent performing arts sector – before introducing us to the TNA member of the Month – dancer, choreographer and founder of Bonnie…

David Hirschfelder at the Darebin Arts Centre

An extraordinary collaboration between Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning composer David Hirschfelder and world-renowned Guzheng artist Mindy Meng Wang will happen at the Darebin Arts Centre.  The performance is inspired by the... LEARN MORE The post David Hirschfelder at the Darebin Arts Centre …

Local tunes, old and new

An idiosyncratic collection of local tunes, old and new. Quiet, loud, quiet. Featuring a brief detour into late-70s/early-80s Australian new wave. Presented by Kim. Wala is Life / Allara ngatha nhawa-l nanyirr / Allara (with Pataphysics, Maru Elias and Coree Thorpe) I Don’t Speak Your Language / Mi…

An obscure orchestra and an opera for the dead

Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra has more of an ethos than a sound. A twenty five piece indie band with constantly evolving membership, it began as a solo project by Matt Hsu, whose values and “punk-trained” composition shine through on not one but two new albums released on the same day: Noodle, and F…

Seckou Keita retunes West African traditional music, and Rowena Wise & Didirri's couples therapy through song

Senegalese kora master Seckou Keita's relationship with the West African string instrument is delicate, thoughtful, and expansive. Through developing his own tunings, and taking his music further than the traditions of Casamance, the region of southern Senegal he's from, he's connected his instrume…

Guzheng, standards, and Yolngu manikay: three very different albums from Paul Grabowsky and friends

Most people would think of Paul Grabowsky as a jazz pianist. And they wouldn't be wrong, except he's much more than that. He's a composer of film scores, orchestra works and operas, a band leader (he founded the Australian Art Orchestra) and an inveterate collaborator. Just this year, he's released…

The uncanny rituals of Opera for the Dead

Straight from Sydney Festival to Melbourne's Art House, Opera for the Dead is a striking contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that blurs ritual, music and technology. Co-creator Mindy Meng Wang reflects on how her personal experience of grief and funeral rites shaped the immersive visual and musical wo…

The Listener Series - Paulo Emanuel

Paulo Emanuel is an experimental multi-instrumentalist with a background in Portuguese outsider music, recording unusual sonic landscapes across genres and countries. When he isn’t doomscrolling through DIY projects, he works as a creative consultant and shoots candid photography. In this show, he …

David Hirschfelder, Composer / John Farnham / Little River Band (Part 1)

David Hirschfelder is a globally acclaimed Australian keyboardist, composer, and arranger best known for his extensive live and studio work with pop-rock heavyweights like the Little River Band and John Farnham, as well as his distinguished career as a film score composer. His prolific output blend…