Shannon O’Neill

is on this weekend. I’ll be playing on Saturday night with the Splinter Orchestra.

The 2008 NOW now festival will be happening at Wentworth Falls School of Arts (217-219 Great Wstrn Hway, Wentworth Falls) Blue Mountains, 18th,19th,20th january. Get your tickets before it’s too late! To book online:
http://www.moshtix.com.au

“Although usually held in the polluted, confined spaces of Sydney’s experimental musicghettoes, the NOW now Festival will take a deep breath and relocate to Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains.There are 3 days and nights of instrument building workshops (for kids and families),outdoor concerts, installations, post-gig jams, soundwalks, noise works in the car park,good food, all the exploratory music CDs from Australia and overseas, surround soundscapes, noisy electric, quiet acoustic, and audiovisual work.”

PROGRAM:

Friday, 18 January, 2008
The NOW now Festival night#1: Wentworth Falls School of Arts Main Hall

7pm sci-hi - paul winstanley (nz) - electronics

7.30pm
greg kingston (tas) - guitar
carolyn connors (vic) - voice

8.15pm louise dibben - audio visuals

break

9.30pm
clare cooper (berlin) - chinese harp
thomas meadowcroft (berlin) - organ

10pm passenger of shit

11pm festival club at Akemi – spontaneous and unscheduled collaborations feat. Sun of the Seventh Sister

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Saturday, 19 January, 2008
The NOW now Festival Day#2: Wentworth Falls School of Arts
10am Sound Walk

3pm workshop for kids (both young and old!!)
instrument building – Dale Gorfinkel & Rod Cooper

Small Room

6pm
Jo Truman – voice
Mike Majkowski - double bass

6.30pm
Ross Bolleter - ruined piano
Jon Rose - violin

Main Hall
7.30pm Brendan Walls - inventions, creations and monstrosities

break

Main Hall
8.30
Emmanuelle Pellegrini (france) - sound poetry

8.50
Philip samartzis (melb) - electronics
Marcia jane (melb) - live video

break

10pm Splinter Orchestra
shannon o’neill - electronics, mike majkowski - double bass, abel cross - electric bass, finn ryan - percussion, milica stefanovic - electric bass, dan whiting - laptop, rod cooper - cooperisms, dale gorfinkel - vibraphone, monika brooks - accordian, jim denley - flutes, alex masso - percussion, clare cooper - guzheng, mira pert - violin, michael sheridan - guitar, ben byrne - laptop, grant arthur - souzaphone, laura altman - clarinet, simon ferenci -
trumpet, karen booth - saxophone, cass mcglynn - euphonium, ian pieterse - baritone sax…plus more.

11 pm festival club at Akemi, spontaneous and unscheduled collaborations

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Sunday, 20 January, 2008
The NOW now Festival Day#3: Wentworth Falls School of Arts
12pm outdoor kids workshop – Wilson Park
ross bolleter - ruined piano and story-telling

2pm Outdoor Concert
sam dobson - double bass, sarangi, clock radios
peter farrar - saxophone
alex masso - percussion
simon ferenci - trumpet
yusuke akai - guitar

carolyn connors (melb) - voice
rosalind hall (melb) - prepared saxophone

Main Hall
6pm
mathieu werchowski - violin (fr)
dan whiting - laptop
xavier charles (fr) - clarinet

6.30pm Metalog
amanda stewart - voice
jim denley - flute & saxophone
ben byrne - laptop
natasha anderson (melb) - contrabass recorder & laptop
dale gorfinkel - vibraphone and deconstructions
robbie avenaim - percussion

7.15pm ora(ra)
matt earle - electronics
adam sussman - guitar & electronics
rory brown - double bass & guitar
rivka schembri - cello

8pm Joyce Hinterding - electronics

8.30pm Taste of Teeth (brisbane)
Yusuke Akai - guitar
Daiji Igarashi - electronics
Nik Mayer-Miller - percussion
Sam Mitchell - sounding things
JoJo Dogshit - sounding things

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Thanks to Zina and Snow of the House of Laudanum for web hosting and the email list
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Thanks to ARTSNSW for their ongoing support of the NOW now.
www.splitrec.com
www.thenownow.net

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