Recorded live at The Quadraphonic Club, Brunswick.
Releases 15 October 2025.
Details and pre-order:
https://josephfranklin.bandcamp.com/album/064-a-thousand-tiny-mutinies-live
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The album features my 17-channel electro-acoustic composition for Tina’s video work/installation of the same name, which I mixed down to stereo for this release.
From the liner notes:
The B-side centres a collaboration with blind motorbike mechanic and rider Matthew Cassar and composer Joseph Franklin. Anchored in ideals of trust and experimentation, the work traces Cassar’s journey through high-performance dirt bike riding as a surrealist voyage of adrenaline and self-actualisation. In his own voice, Cassar reflects on the layered worlds—both on screen and within—where ‘image meets experience’. Cinema becomes sensorium, as singing, thrumming, electronically mediated dirt bikes, outer-suburban field recordings, exhausted vocalities, hymns, trumpets, harmonics and grain converge in a rush of sonic and embodied image-making.
Released 10 July 2025
https://nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com/album/066-you-cant-see-speed
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Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music for their ANAM Set 2025, the piece continues my interest in transferring and transposing musical materials from bodies to bodies, instruments to instruments, and situations to situations.
The music draws upon my solo contrabass practice, translated to the violin via the cello — a process developed in close collaboration with David Moran. The title comes from Rohan Kriwaczek’s eccentric book An Incomplete History of The Art of The Funerary Violin.
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July 02, 2025
Link to the score can be found HERE.
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