Shannon O'Neill

Liquid Architecture presents sound. Sound as the starting point for the active practice of listening. This is not to deny the conceptual or the abstract, the metaphorical or the representational, the expressionistic or the meaningful. But rather this is to restore the emphasis on the primary act of listening. Liquid Architecture is in effect then a listening festival and the artists presented are selected as much for their ability to listen with sensitive ears as for the sound they produce. You are invited to engage your sensitive ears and listen.

http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/

Tickets from Green Tix, $15 (or $10 concession) + $2 booking fee.

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KK Null (Tokyo, 1961) is an electro-acoustic music composer/performer, and guitarist, singer, mastermind of avant-garde rock band ZENI GEVA.

In 1981 Kazuyuki Kishino (KK NULL) studied at Butoh dancer, Min Tanaka’s “Mai-Juku” workshop and started performing guitar improvisation in Tokyo, and collaborated with MERZBOW for two years, and joined the band YBO2 (with Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer of RUINS) and started the improvized rock trio ABSOLUT NULL PUNKT (with Seijiro Murayama, the original drummer of Keiji Haino’s FUSHITSUSHA).

In the 90′s ZENI GEVA released five albums produced by STEVE ALBINI. Also recorded twice for JOHN PEEL SESSION on BBC, and extensively toured throughout Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, playing hundreds of concerts.

All the while, KK NULL has been working on his solo career and has collaborated with other musical innovators from all over the globe such as CHRIS WATSON (UK), Z’EV (USA/UK), JOHN ZORN (USA), FRED FRITH (USA/UK), MATMOS (USA), KEIJI HAINO (Japan), JON ROSE (Australia), PHILIP SAMARTZIS (Australia), ALEXEI BORISOV (Russia), ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI (Poland) to name a few, and has been invited to perform at prestigious international festivals. Especially, KK NULL has been invited by GRM (Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales) to perform at Presences Électronique in Paris, France successively 2008 and 2009.

In recent years KK NULL has concentrated his efforts on his solo & collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories of electronica, creating intense clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures and droning isolationist material, which could be described as “cosmic noise maximal/minimalism”.

http://www.kknull.com

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Lionel Marchetti (France, 1967) is a composer of Musique Concrète. Yôko Higashi (1974, Yokohama, Japan) is a performer, vocalist, Butoh dancer and choreographer.

Initially self-taught, Lionel discovered the catalogue of Musique Concrète with Xavier Garcia. He composed in the CFMI of Lyon 2 University between 1989 and 2002, where he still organises workshops focused on the loudspeaker, recorded sound and Musique Concrète, both on practical and theoretical levels. He has built his own recording studio, and has also composed in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris since 1993. Marchetti performs improvisation using microphones and loudspeakers, as a duo with Jérôme Noetinger, and with the collective Le Cube (with Christophe Auger, Étienne Caire, Christophe Cardoen, Xavier Quérel, Jérôme Noetinger, Gaëlle Rouard) a group that performs live music while films are shown and worked on interactively. Lionel also writes poetry, and develops theoretical thoughts on Musique Concrète and the art of the loudspeaker.

Yôko has collaborated with Lionel Marchetti, Nicolas Ticot and Frédérick Galiay, and has performed with Keith Rowe, Thomas Korber, Seiji Murayama and Chewbacca (Andrew Daymond and Damien Grange). In 2003 she formed Yokohama Zen Rocks, an electric pop-rock trio, and more recently the duo Octobriana with violinist Agathe Max. hamaYôko is Higashi’s Musique Concrète-influenced electro-pop project.

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Decibel is a new music ensemble based in Perth, Western Australia devoted to the nexus of acoustic and electronic instruments. The group was formed out of a desire to perform a range of music where electronic and acoustic instruments feature side by side and is dedicated to Australian music and emerging Western Australian composers. [photo © KFord]

Decibel Members

Cat Hope (artistic director, flute and electronics)
Lindsay Vickery (reeds and electronics)
Stuart James (piano, percussion and electronics)
Malcolm Riddoch (guitar and electronics)
Tristen Parr (cello)
Aaron Wyatt (violin, viola)

decibel.waapamusic.com

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Jon Hunter is an electronic artist/musician living in Sydney. He creates sound installations, composes and performs music for modified spring reverberation units, computer and guitar. Hunter’s works sit somewhere between psychedelia and science fiction. Often sounding like organic field recordings but synthetically rendered, these tense environments teeter on the edge of collapse whilst the echoes of Hendrix and Haino fly past.
He is a part of The Holy Soul, Guarde Compartmente (a duo with Monika Brooks) & Delirium Tremens (a duo with Peter Newman). He has performed with the likes of Damo Suzuki (Can), David Thomas (Pere Ubu), Yusuke Akai, Somaya Langley, TAD, Nick De Jong (Ghosts of Television / None Music) and Shoji Hano.
He co-presents the weekly new/experimental music program ‘Song X’ on 2ser with Martin Ng & Peter Blamey and co-runs a small label Magnetic Recording Council .”

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