"Just before going to press, I managed to catch theaterMalpertuis and Mob Production's Slow Love, written by Richard Murphet. Close on the heels of Writing to Vermeer, here is another sophisticated multimedia venture. This classic Australian theatre work from 1983 remains as innovative as ever with its onstage jump cuts, edits, action replays and rich cinematographic colourings. Stevie Wishart's live mix of song and sound is an impressive counter-text, as in a Godard movie it tells its own stories and cuts in and out of the action, sometimes providing unusual romantic movie soundtracks using her own voice, sometimes the alien otherness of a computer talking and electronic pulsings."
Keith Gallasch, RealTime, Australia

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Sydney Festival "Stylistic fidelity - with which many early music groups preen themselves - is susceptible to many meanings. Treating written notes as raw material or a starting point is also a defensible philosophy. Stevie Wishart who is known for her medieval ensemble, Sinfonye, as for her improvisatory group Machine for Making Sense - oscillates between the two positions, though her Sydney Festival performance ('concert' seems to formal a term) for the Twilight series veered mostly in the dogma free tradition. Its title was as provocative as it was intriguing, though it can not be denied that improvisation was loved as much by antique musicians as by modern ones. Wishart - using medieval violin,=- and hurdygurdy, plus her voice with a mix of electronics (sampling, delay, synthesised bass tracks) blended old and new seamlessly."
John Carmody, Sunday Telegraph

"Driving rhythm,sonorities that are alternatively raucous and seductive, and a focus of music intent which you disregard at your peril"
Andrew Ford, 24 Hours Magazine

"The fiery improviser and medieval specialist Stevie Wishart surface in different contexts, including medieval revivalists Sinfonye and the jump-cut dad improv of Machine For Making Sense"
The Wire, London

"Stevie Wishart's fiddle playing gets better and better... pins you back in your seats and holds you there. You hardly dare breath..."
ABC Radio 24 Hours, Sydney

For Slow Love November 1999
"with the deep groove of Stevie Wishart's unique music... from Slow Love we mainly remember the fabulous music (violin, hurdygurdy, electronics,vocals)
(transl.) 't Pallieterke, Antwerp

"Stevie Wishart provides the sound. It is stunning how she manages to maintain the hellish tempo of her work"
(transl.) Financieel Economische Tijd, Antwerp

"The live soundscape from Stevie Wishart which guides you, seduces you, and deceives you. Slow Love is addictive"
De Standaard, Brussels

"Stevie Wishart melded the mediaeval and the postmodern in a seductive outing in the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the Twilight Chamber Music series, playing as ever with a mix of finely honed lyricism, sublimely so on violin, and spiralling swathes of hurdygurdy chordings against Shane Fahey's responsive sound stream."
Keith Gallasch, Realtime, Australia

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