After a brief hiatus Alias Frequencies is back in 2009 with many wonderful things to come. Here are some new and updated releases:
Lucas Darklord – Handheld Apocalypse
These selections represent a sample of individual works, experiments and never-to-be-finished pieces produced between 2005 and 2007. Some pieces mark the beginnings of failed projects or redundant tangents, whilst others came to be for unknown reasons. All compositions are intended for most appropriate use in managerial meeting rooms, executive boardrooms, vaults, darkness, at volume and with influence. It is advised that this composition be played in all work places both before and after work each day. This music is without genre and is Dark Corporate Techno, Dark Grinding Corporate Ambience, Dark Corporate Art Core and 21st Centuary All Family Punk.
Lloyd Barrett & Paul Forbes-Mitchell – Humming through Schizophonic Air
The pieces on this album were created using a specially designed system code-named “Habitat”. Autonomous artificial agents feed on live and prepared sound and vision, excreting their own mutated variations which are then collected and presented for listener edification. The process is the culmination of combined research by Paul and Lloyd in the construction of a live electro-acoustic audiovisual engine that draws from both academic and underground practices.
Also updated:
Lucas Darklord – Asmoir
These are the sounds received from our first interdimensional probe, Asmoir. This epic work now includes parts 4, 5 and 6 plus high quality images. The current duration is over seven hours. The concluding parts 7, 8 and 9 will be released later this year.
2009 ELECTROFRINGE FESTIVAL – CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Electrofringe is now calling for proposals for the 2009 festival. We
are looking for creative expressions from artists, sound artists,
performers, media makers, digital filmmakers, researchers,
cross-artform practitioners, curators, producers, writers,
experimenters, enthusiasts and anyone who doesn’t fit these boxes.
Electrofringe is a five-day festival of electronic arts and culture
held from the 1st – 5th October 2009 in Newcastle, Australia.
Electrofringe is part of a group of festivals collected together under
the This Is Not Art umbrella. Electrofringe is committed to fostering
creative and innovative use and re-use of technology and electronic
artforms, while focusing on artistic development and skills exchange.
Electrofringe seeks proposals in the following program areas:
Artist and project presentations, workshops and demonstrations,
panels, interventions, live art, performance (Electro-Performance),
residencies (Electro-Residencies), mobile works (Electro-Manoeuvre),
online artworks (Electro-Online) and single-channel video works
(Electro-Projections & Electro-Être) plus special events (something
you want to propose).
All presentations, panels, workshops, demonstrations, panels,
performance, residency, intervention, live and mobile works submission
proposals are due by TUESDAY 31st MARCH 2009.
Only online artworks (Electro-Online) and single-channel video works
(Electro-Projections & Electro-Être) submission proposals are due by
SUNDAY 31st MAY 2009.
See the Electrofringe website for submission details: www.electrofringe.net
Over the last few years Don’t Look Gallery has presented a diverse
array of challenging experimental technology-based art from its
shopfront in the outer-inner-west suburb of Dulwich Hill. Sound,
video, computer art, vintage technologies, installation and conceptual
art describe just some of the forms that have raised eyebrows in this
modestly sized art space.
We are currently looking for artists (and potential artists) who may
want to show at Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery in 2009.
Exhibitions run for 10 days (or longer by agreement), the rent is
cheap and we help with publicity, setup and concept (if you wish). If
you are interested in having an exhibition please email a proposal and
CV (no more than two pages in all) to dontlookgallery@gmail.com.
In 2009 we will be also be starting a fortnightly experimental
sound/new media performance night. If you’re a musician and/or artist
and want to try out something new, again please email
dontlookgallery@gmail.com with a short description of the work and a
CV.
We look forward to hearing from all artists who are into making work
that doesn’t fit neatly into a gilded frame, squarely on a wall!
I’ve programmed a selection of Australian music for the latest edition of the ELEVENELEVEN podcast.
I have a chapter in this new book:
Very shortly the book Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia will be hitting the streets.
Written by artists, producers and participants in alternative music-making, and including a companion CD, Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia explores the development of forms, ideas and scenes from the 1970s to the present.
It brings together a wide range of musical experimentation, from post-punk, noise, appropriation, electronic dance and listening music, to free improv, computer process music, experimental radio, instrument building and audiovisual fusions. More soon…
To accompany the book, a website www.experimentalmusicaustralia.net has been created to bring together information about experimental music and sound in Australia. There are 3 features that invite your input:
National Calendar: a web-based calendar (it’s a little bit ugly, but it’s free), to bring together listings from across the country. So if you have a gig, festival, exhibition, conference etc that you’d like listed you can send through information. If you produce multiple events or series you can have editing access.
Artist Directory: Hopefully a comprehensive map of people working in experimental music and sound across Australia. If you would like to be included, download the form, fill it in, and email back, or contact for further information.
Resource List: This is a mega links list starting with information drawn from the book on all things experimental music from gigs, organisations, online journals and a bibliography. Already an unwieldy monster, feel free to send through additions/suggestions.
For all of the above email: info <at-sign-here> experimentalmusicaustralia.net
I’ll email more when the book is ready for our hot little hands, but in the meantime help make the website a valuable resource!
thanks
Gail Priest
NB: The website www.experimentalmusicaustralia.net is an unfunded, independent activity undertaken to accompany the book Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia.
Out November 2008
Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia published by UNSW Press
RRP $29.95
ordering information
For a limited time there is a
20% pre-order discount
Written by:
Julian Knowles
Ian Andrews with John Blades
Cat Hope
Shannon O’Neill
Bo Daley
Alistair Riddell
Jim Denley
Virginia Madsen
Sean Bridgeman
Gail Priest
edited by Gail Priest
The printed publication Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia was funded by the Australia Council Music Board as part of a series of publications.
[via Nick Mariette]
Dear EFA Supporter,
It has been a busy few weeks for Electronic Frontiers Australia as public outrage against the Government’s Internet censorship plan ignited around the country. EFA has served as a gateway for information on the scheme and a rallying point for opposition. Our revamped campaign website at http://nocleanfeed.com has seen an explosion in traffic, and the EFA board has done dozens of interviews in print, on radio and television getting the word out to the Australian public. See below for just a sample.
The campaign is working. On the internet, letters to the editor pages and talk-back stations around the country, the Australian public are up in arms. MPs around the country are being flooded with calls, letters and emails demanding an end to the censorship plans. If we keep it up, sufficient pressure can be summoned to bring about a full-scale retreat from this ludicrous and undemocratic position.
EFA will not be easing up the pressure. We will be increasing our online presence, working with other community groups to organise activism, preparing policy analysis material for politicians and journalists, and spreading the bad news with targeted advertising. We will be lobbying selected politicians, so with your continued support we expect to be banging on the doors of power in Canberra regularly over the coming months.
There are a few things you can do to help keep momentum building.
- If you haven’t already, visit the campaign website, and write to your local MP telling them how upset you are.
- Join our Action Alert mailing list here: http://lists.efa.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/alert and be ready to respond when a call for targeted action is made.
- Follow us on Twitter for frequent campaign updates.
- Volunteer. Got special skills in web or graphic design, online advertising, video production, community building or copy writing?
- Got expertise in the subject you’d like to share? Willing to hit the phones? Let us know.
- Send us feedback on the campaign (feedback@efa.org.au), and where you’d like to see EFA target its resources.
- Make a donation (http://www.efa.org.au/support/donations/) so that we can continue to fund our ongoing activities.
We haven’t forgotten about our other campaigns, either. Our campaign site pushing for an R18+ category for computer games went live last week at http://www.r18games.com. As always, check EFA’s home page for latest news.
-The EFA Board
EFA in the news
Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/labors-net-gag-worse-than-iran/2008/10/23/1224351430987.html
Filter to cause World Wide Wait
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24575125-15306,00.html
Net filters may block porn and gambling sites
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/10/27/1224955916155.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
Stranglehold on the Internet
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24561421-5006364,00.html
Channel 7′s Morning program
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=xThNk0Vd4ws
Subject: THIS REALLY WORKS! WE SWEAR!!
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For this to work, it is important that everyone that possibly can actually downloads our entire first issue.
So, you send this on, the people you send to download our first issue (free download remember), and then they each send this message onto another ten (10) people, and so on and so on.
Once you’ve downloaded the first issue, you don’t need to download it again if you don’ want to, this will still work.
After a couple of weeks of this starting, we will have had HEAPS and HEAPS of downloads.
THIS WILL REALLY WORK. We aren’t making this up. If ou do what we are saying in this message it will really work.
You want to get rich don’t you?
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Well, we don’t. We just want people to read our free online zine that has no advertising or anything.
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I’ll be DJing at this:
The Sound of Failure sound art festival continues at UTS and the
Factory Theatre (see http://soundoffailure.com.for complete list of
events and details)…
Question/Answer… Interruption
UTS performance space
Bon Marche building, Corner of Broadway and Harris St
August 27, 6pm – FREE
This unique performance will explore and disrupt the notion that music
should be as symmetrical as a ‘perfect’ human face. Participants will
be invited to perform in this collaborative work aimed at
investigating notions of rhythm, structure, form, space and time.
These performances will make use of the snazzy new facilities (which
include a 9.1 surround sound system) in this UTS space. Performers
include: Peter Newman, Shannon O’Neill, Jessica Tyrrell & Chris
Caines, and Roger Mills.
Sound of Failure Festival, main performance night
Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Rd, Enmore
August 30, 7pm (sharp!), $20 (+booking fee)
Book NOW online at http://factorytheatre.com.au
Internationally renowned torturers of electronic toys, Toydeath, will
unleash their circuit bent mayhem on the Factory Theatre along with 15
other acts that include everything from the burlesque cabaret of
Dianne’s Dollhouse and the endurance karaoke of Samuel Bruce, to the
uninhibited, primordial yowls of Lectre Macabre & Triangle. Other
performers include: Ian Andrews, catfingers, Greg Chatonsky (Canada),
Cleaning Lady (Vic), Jacob Craig, Delirium Tremens, Est Et Non, Tom
Hall (Brisbane), Hiske with Psychic Date & VJ Jax, Sari TM Kavinen,
Marquis de Sound, Glenn Remington, and Jessica Tyrrell & Chris Caines.
Before the performance evening at the Factory there will be an audio
picnic in Enmore Park at 3pm. Bring your food and noisemakers for this
impromptu, unofficial, romp in the park!
Book now for August 30 at the Factory at http://factorytheatre.com.au
For more information and other events see http://soundoffailure.com,
or phone Greg on 0401 152 434
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