“I’m more influenced now by what my mates do or don’t do than someone on a record from across the seas.”
Interview: 2011 Freedman Fellowship Finalist Evan Mannell
In 2011 the Freedman Fellowship finalists were Tom O’Halloran (piano/composer, Perth), Ben Vanderwal (drums, Perth/Melbourne), John Parker (Brisbane, drums) and Matt Keegan (saxophone/composer/director, Sydney). Read this Q&A with Evan Mannell
Recollections Seven – This is Dripping: The Drip Hards
The overwhelming aesthetic is eclectic though this style-laden environment is anything but imitative other than when tongue-in-cheek, and in this some humor is brought to bear. This imaginative trio explores a clearly etched ethos; one I perceive of as trajectories within trajectories; a process of creating layered textures.

