Richard Dawson (Ritual Community Music)

Published: May 20, 2020, 10 p.m.

b'English singer and guitarist Richard Dawson is a skewed troubadour at once charming and abrasive. His shambolically virtuosic guitar playing stumbles from music-hall tune-smithery to spidery swatches of noise-colour, swathed in amp static and teetering on the edge of feedback. His songs are both chucklesome and tragic, rooted in a febrile imagination that references worlds held dear and worlds unknown.\\n\\nhttps://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/ritual-community-music\\n\\nRitual Community Music\\n27 September, 2015\\nThe Tote, Collingwood\\nPresented by Liquid Architecture\\n\\nAudio: Mara Schwerdtfeger\\n\\nFinancial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture\\u2019s weekly\\xa0podcast and our online journal Disclaimer, for new thinking and writing on listening and sound through a Patreon subscription, for as little as $5 a month. \\n\\nhttps://www.patreon.com/liquidarchitecture\\n\\nFor the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia\\u2019s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.'