Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Paul Ransom, Journalist

Features / Arts
Making Sure Choreography Is Getting Its Share Of The Kudos
"Philanthropy can do things sometimes that government or corporate funding is not so able to do. Sometimes it can be more risky."
Features / Music
Technique At The Service Of Emotion, And At The Service Of Human Meaning
"Classical music is not disposable. The pieces in this recital should change your life. You should never be the same again."
Features / Arts
Composing For A Medium Less Locked To Music
"With music you're working more from the feeling or the mood of what's happening and you go from there."
Features / Arts
Doing Things On A Grand Scale
"There's poor starving students everywhere around the world wanting to go on adventures and discover themselves."
Features / Arts
How Do We Exist In An Industrial Landscape?
"If we aren't there for one another on stage we fall and break."
Features / Arts
The Necessity Of Morally Defining Machinery
"Facing another object that mirrors your own feelings is difficult to describe, especially when that 'other' is not human."
Features / Arts
"I Love Being Pushed To Extremes"
"These ballets have been performed not just by the famous people but by everyone all over the world."
Features / Arts
The Sexy Sound Of Light And Dark
"Very dark, almost tribal, sexual music, rather than cerebral."
Reviews / Arts
Miss Universal
"Atlanta Eke dives into dark, comic, sci-fi tinged psychologies."
Features / Arts
Finding Dali In The Gentle Caress Of Theatre
"We are trying to understand what was this pain that Dali had, but we tell this in a way that is not so full of dolour."
Features / Arts
On How Walking In Two Worlds Is Normal For Indigenous Men
"I just hope there's a real resurgence of men coming together to ask those questions about what does it mean to be a man in the 21st century."
Features / Arts
Why Love Could Be An Actual Energy In The Universe, Like Gravity
"Maybe we live in space and love."