A film by Gregor Nicholas (22 min. NZ, 1985) A collaboration between Nicholas and the performance music group ‘From Scratch’ founded by Scratch Orchestra member Phil Dadson.
In his latest documentary film piece, Fowler outlines the history of The Scratch Orchestra, composer Cornelius Cardew’s free-thinking grouping of musicians, non-musicians and other interested parties. Using archive footage – much of it culled from Hanne Boenisch’s 1971 television…
A film by Stephen Jones (23minutes, Australia, 2008) “The Machine for Making Sense” performed at the Opera House in late 1994 and I was invited to record the performance, so with another camera operator and myself we shot the entire performance….