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Music Melbourne & Me: 40 years of Mushroom records
Interviews with the exhibition curator and footage of the opening night of Music, Melbourne and Me: 40 years of Mushroom and Melbourne's Popular Music Culture.
Introduction: This video features vision from the Opening night exhibition of Music, Melbourne and Me. It includes direct to camera interviews with personnel involved in the exhibition, as well as the excerpts of speeches given at the Opening. Between people speaking, parts of The Swingers “Counting the Beat” song are played.
TEXT ON SCREEN: Music, Melbourne and Me: 40 years of mushroom and Melbourne’s popular music culture. RMIT logo.
AUDIO: Music - opening guitar riffs from
VISUAL: Montage of shots from the opening night of the exhibition. It features exterior shots of neon signage, people socialising the gallery and exhibition content including gold and platinum records.
VISUAL: Dr Kipps Horn facing the camera.
TEXT ON SCREEN: Dr Kepps Horn. Program Director, Music Inudstry, Media and Communications, RMIT and Exhibition co curator.
DR HORN SPEAKS: We associate music with particular times in our lives and places and people and relationships that are important in our lives and we can all kind of be suddenly switched on by listening to a certain song. Or a certain instrument, that ah yes that what it reminds me of.
AUDIO: Music - The Swingers “Counting the Beat” continues.
VISUAL: Montage of exhibition, including band memorabilia, records, people socialising at the exhibition and still shots of live performances.
VISUAL: Deborah Conway faces camera against a white background.
TEXT ON SCREEN: Deborah Conway, musician.
DEBORAH SPEAKS. I was at a party a few years ago and the Rolling Stones song, 'Sympathy for the devil,' came on and I felt my whole body before I was even conscious of it. I felt my whole body kinda going to kind of a spasm of memory and goose bump and it was so powerful I just wanted to weep.
VISUAL: Montage of exhibition opening.
AUDIO: Music - The Swingers “Counting the Beat” continues.
VISUAL: Professor Margaret Gardner standing at a lecturn in the gallery.
TEXT ON SCREEN: Professor Margaret Gardner AO. Vice-Chancellor and President, RMIT.
PROFESSOR GARDNER SPEAKS: This not only speaks to the evolution of music in Melbourne, of live music, of this thing that was us creating ourselves, but it's closely tied to the development of Melbourne as a city. Melbourne is a deeply cultural city. It's built in its experiences and the way its built, its way of living. It's not dominated by its physical landscape. But by its cultural and intellectual landscape and this is part of that story.
VISUAL: Suzanne Davies standing at lecture.
TEXT ON SCREEN: Suzanne Davies. Director, RMIT Gallery and Exhibition co curator.
SUZANNE DAVIS SPEAKS. There are a number of things we want you to experience. We want you to l experience. We want you to walk into different spaces and feel different, feel different things. We are very interested in the way people use music to generate memories, and that for us has been a primary focus.
AUDIO: Applause.
VISUAL: Suzanne Davis leaves the lectern and Michael Gudinski steps up.
TEXT ON SCREEN: Michael Gudinski AM. CEO, the Mushroom Group.
MICHAEL GUDINSKI SPEAKS: We used to say that our artists are our strength and they certainly are. Certainly, the successful ones. The real strength, the real strength are the people in the place.
AUDIO: Music - The Swingers “Counting the Beat” continues.
VISUAL: Montage of footage from opening night.
VISUAL: Dr Kipps Horn facing the camera.
DR KIPPS SPEAKS: We really hope that the audiences of this exhibition will tell us something about their memories and their stories that are connected with Melbourne and music.
VISUAL: Montage of shots from the opening night of the exhibition. It features exterior shots of neon signage, people socialising the gallery and exhibition content including gold and platinum records.
WRITTEN TEXT: Still photographs from the exhibition by Graeme Webber, Mark Ashkanasy, Ros O’Gorman. This video features Counting the Beat by The Swingers, supplied by Mushroom Records, used with permission. RMIT logo.
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