This is the banner site of Emily Williams.
Melbourne based Cellist, Composer,
Experimental Sound Artist,
Vocalist and Performer.
Emily's music will can be heard on the
ABC's Sunday Arts program channel 31's
Film review Show 'The Picture House'.
Other sites and affiliations
Emily's Myspace
www.myspace.com/emilywilliamscellomusic
Emily's experimental side project 'Come on Frank'
www.myspace.com/comeonfrank
The Boy Who Spoke Clouds
www.theboywhospokeclouds.info
Koshowko
www.koshowko.com
The Future of Classical Music
www.thefutureofclassicalmusic.com
The Picture House Presents
www.thepicturehouse.com.au
ABC Sunday Arts
www.abc.net.au/tv/sundayarts/
The Chao Feng Chinese Orchestra
www.chaofeng.com.au
Biography
Emily Williams Cellist, composer and vocalist uses electronics and various machines to process and affect her acoustic Cello. Compositions consisting of repetition, Cello percussion, vocals and various diverse pedal’s and effects are multi-layered creating works that have been described as both haunting and transcendent to lyrical and alternative.
Born in Melbourne Australia Emily started violin at 7 and later changed to Cello at 9. Studying at the VCA Secondary School for jazz and improvised voice while studying classical Cello and later taking a serious interest in composition, experimental music and Film music.
Emily has composed for short films, short feature films and documentaries with screenings at ACMI and National film festivals and is currently writing and scoring for her first short.
Previously, Emily has sung and performed Cello heavy metal bands and rock groups to jazz and blues outfits to classical Cello quintets and improvised ensembles with her current experimental project ‘Come on Frank’ where the unity of sound design and technology with the dynamics and timber of the Cello and it’s capabilities are being explored. “Come on Frank’ is currently being performed with ‘The Future of Classical Music’.
Emily is presently performing her Cello music and will be releasing her first Album later in the year and also playing Cello for Adam Casey, also known as, ‘The boy who spoke clouds’. Her production of ‘Light and Cello’ will be performed in September/October as part of the Fringe Festival. Emily's film and tv compositions can be heard on ABC's Sunday Arts program and Channel 31's 'The Picture House' Film review show.
For more informaton regarding other projects
Myspace
www.myspace.com/emilywilliamscellomusic
Experimental Project
www.myspace.com/comeonfrank
Other musical Affilliations
www.koshowko.com
www.thepicturehouse.com.au
www.theboywhospokeclouds.info
www.abc.net.au/tv/sundayarts/
www.melbournefringe.com.au
www.myspace.com/chrisrainier
www.myspace.com/alextaylorandtheevileye
www.chaofeng.com.au
Reviews and Interviews
http://www.thedwarf.com.au/nd/interviews/emily_williams_it_s_classical_but_not_as_we_know_it
Emily Williams - It's classical but not as we know it.
When you think 'classical music' you may think of bespectacled fuddy-duddies wearing brown, suede-elbowed jackets. Immovable and disdainful to anything but the purist of musical forms. However, Melbourne based cellist and composer Emily Williams bucks the trend, turning her cello an instrument of torture and delight whilst shining a light on an oft misunderstood and maligned musical world in these trend-jumping times.
Name checking a range of musicians from Alice Coltrane to Shostakovich to Nine Inch Nails, it's
clear that Williams is not adverse to a little inter-genre musical relations. Moreover, her compositions reveal a passion and a deep understanding of classical music rules and most importantly a willingness to subvert them to create lush and breathtaking musical landscapes.
"'Most of our current western musical main stream trends can be traced back through to classical music. Its still around and selling out every season at concert halls around the country and the globe for that matter. I have always known so much classical music, and when I hear it or play it, its like visiting old friends," says Williams.
After starting on violin at the age seven before moving to cello at age nine, Williams rounded out her musical education at VCA Secondary School where she studied jazz and improvisation. It was an environment that provided a pool of talented musicians and a wealth of inspiration.
William's current musical style has come from many 'laneways and avenues.'
"Ive sung folk originals on my acoustic guitar in Europe, worked with acid jazz bands on the Coast, experimental duos and rock bands," she explains.
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Quotes
Within this restless, hurried, modern world
We took our hearts' full pleasure--You and I,
And now the white sails of our ship are furled,
And spent the lading of our argosy.
Wherefore my cheeks before their time are wan,
For very weeping is my gladness fled,
Sorrow hath paled my lip's vermilion,
And Ruin draws the curtains of my bed.
But all this crowded life has been to thee
No more than lyre, or lute, or subtle spell
Of viols, or the music of the sea
That sleeps, a mimic echo, in the shell.
-Oscar Wilde
"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No.""
-Aaron Copland
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-Groucho Marx
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
-John Cage
Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.
-Charlie Parker
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
-Hunter S. Thompson
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 1
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!
-William Shakespeare
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
-Igor Stravinsky
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
-Charles Mingus
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
-George Carlin
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
-Charlie Parker