Thomas Meadowcroft

Australian composer Thomas Meadowcroft continues to demolish courtesy in this latest instalment of Alleinunterhaltung (‘Entertaining Alone’), an ongoing piece that operates as a searing, defeatist commentary on the broken economy of music. Incorporating the starkness and humour typical of Meadowcroft’s music and its place between contemporary classical and abstract pop, the piece employs a combination of drum machines, organ, analogue tape and synth to engage with the thorny issue of the ‘political economy of music via its endless proliferation’.