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Episode 60 – Robbie Melville: Creating Musical Waves Downunder

22/11/2024

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INTRODUCTION

Robbie Melville is an award winning guitar player and composer from Australia. Australia has produced a long line of great musical artists, particularily in the pop genre. For many, however, the more complex forms of Australian music creation and production has been perhaps a best kept secret less well known. With the internet and easier access to information, that is definately changing with many incredible musicians that create and work in Australia being feted around the world.

Here is a short quote from Robbie’s website which highlights the awards he has received.

“Melville’s compositions have garnered several awards. Most recently he became a recipient of the 2021 Johnny Dennis Music Award. In 2016 he was awarded both the Industry and Orkeztra prizes in the Composition Competition for world music ensemble Orkeztra Glasso Bashalde with the piece ‘Tango In Pusan’. He was awarded first place for ‘Junkyard’ in the Instrumental Category of the 2018 International Songwriting Competition, a competition that amassed over 19,000 entries. The same song was shortlisted for the 2021 Composition-To-Choreography Competition “MadeBy”, an initiative of OneMusic Australia and the Australian arm of the Royal Academy of Dance.“

Podcast Ep 60 – Table Of Contents

0.00 – 2.23 Introduction
3.50 Touring and making music in Australia.
8.23 Early musical influences.
11.15 The story leading up to playing the principle chair with the “Australian Pops Orchestra”.
19.20 Moving to Shanghai and working as a musician.
26.05 A short extract from Robbie’s recording “11 Orange Monsters I Have Known” from his album titled “Tangled Trails“.
26.50 Robbie discusses composition and it’s development within his life.
30.40 Creating improvised music for live silent film screenings.
32.30 Working in music tuition and thoughts on people’s takeup of music and the influence of social media.
37.15 A short extract from Robbie’s recording “Foster” from his album titled “Distance“.
38.08 Future projects including “The Village Square”.
46.14 Final thoughts and wrap-up with “Two Roads” from his album titled “Distance“.