Shannon O’Neill

Liquid Architecture 9: Festival of Sound Arts
Sydney 11 –12 July 2008
@ The Factory Theatre
105 Victoria Rd, Enmore

TICKETS: $12 (including booking fee)
From The Factory Theatre box office (02) 9550 3666 or online at www.factorytheatre.com.au

Liquid Architecture, Australia’s premier national sound-arts festival celebrates its ninth year with live performances, surround sound presentations, audio-visuals and recorded work, screenings and installations, featuring our most imaginative musicians, composers, sound designers and media artists in a sense-specific feast for the ears.

SYDNEY PROGRAM
Friday 11 July – 7:30pm
$12
TOY.BIZARRE (Bellac)
ROBERT NORMANDEAU (Montreal)
LAWRENCE ENGLISH (Brisbane)
NAT (Melbourne)
JACQUES SODDELL (Bendigo)
KUSUM NORMOYLE

Saturday 12 July - 7.30pm
$12
ANDREW PEKLER (Berlin)
MARCUS SCHMICKLER (Köln)
METALOG (Sydney/Melbourne)
KAZUMICHI GRIME
NICK WISHART + HIROFUMI UCHINO
HEIL SPIRITS
IVAN LISYAK
TOECUTTER

An international screening program featuring new A/V works. Plus an installation program exclusive to Sydney, featuring:

CÉDRIC PEYRONNET (Bellac)
JODI ROSE
RENE CHRISTEN
MELISSA HUNT
MARK BROWN
JASON SWEENEY
JESSICA TYRRELL

The first TEN people through the door each night will receive an ERIKM cd - Stéme (Room40). Giveaways courtesy of Room40.

FULL PROGRAM AND TICKETING DETAILS: www.liquidarchitecture.org.au

My review of this year’s NOW now festival has just been published by RealTime.

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

thats right every wednesday night club consolador de dos caras will be changing the lyrics of that easybeats song as midweek becomes the minds principal night of longing. two rooms of week in week out fun, the front room which incidentally is absolutely free!! will be armed to the teeth with an erratic array of all music presented by regular DJ’s smallcock/ bambi and the bambis/ toecutter & BOG + weekly guests like openings nights dj rainbow ejaculation. it will also be hosting a DIY market place for independent music labels/publishers and fashion designers so please feel free to bring your wares.

while in the back room for a minimal charge (usually gold coin but may vary depending on touring acts) 3 live acts every week! opening night offering up touring cairns city elite red red krovvy, the penrith/cairns pairing Axel Rosie O’Donnell, plus our very own naked on the vague. starts the 21st november at la ampana, 53-55 liverpool st, in the spanish 1/4, Sydney city, front room free entry back room $5 (touring acts from cairns)opens 8pm runs til late (live acts over by 11pm).

booking a wee weekly can be a little ominous so please dont be afraid to ge in touch if you’ld like to have a go on the decks or out the back, at dualpLOVER we’re up for anything!

the dual plover family of business

www.dualplover.com

From 8.30pm this Tuesday and next, my UTS Audio Workshop students will be presenting live features on 2SER-FM.

Dear Friends,
This year’s Golden Eye Awards hosts the first Sydney Sound Sports
event. A bit like Theatre Sports but
a lot noisier. Come along and join the audience on Wednesday October
17 at the Great Hall, level 5,
Building 1 (The Tower) at UTS.
Time: 5:30 sharp!!
Hope to see you there

Electrofringe is just around the corner, and this looks to be a particularly good year. I’ll be there as usual, doing a few talks. No gig this time, but I am contributing to Patchwork, an exhibition of ‘patch art’. Here’s mine:

It’s a screenshot of an AudioMulch patch that I’ve been using for the past year or so for live performance, in conjunction with a Behringer BCR controller.

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Sunday, 16 September, 2007
APOSTASY

Sedition 275 Victoria st, Darlinghurst.
Every Sunday from 6pm. donation

Ben Byrne - laptop
Abel Cross - electric bass
Shannon O’Neill - electronics
Robbie Avenaim - percussion

www.myspace.com/seditionapostasy

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WHAT: SOUND OF FAILURE: Experimental Music in a Post-digital Era

WHEN/WHERE (TWO VENUES):

Saturday August 25, 6pm:
Petersham Bowling Club (Performances)
77 Brighton St, Petersham
Hosted by the irrepressible Schappylle Scragg.

Saturday/Sunday August 25/26 11am-5pm:
DON’T LOOK Experimental New Media Gallery (Installations)
419 New Canterbury Rd (Near Marrickville Rd), Dulwich Hill
Endurance performances at Don’t Look Gallery from 12-5pm Sunday.

WHO:

PERFORMERS (Petersham Bowling Club):
Est Et Non, Tom Hall (Brisbane), Lecter Macabre, Marquis De Sound, Glen Remington, Starella, Vilhelm the Tortoise & Friends (Belgium), Alex White

INSTALLATION ARTISTS/ENDURANCE PERFORMERS
(Don’t Look Gallery):
Catfingers, Cleaninglady, Gregory Chatonsky (Canada), The Contingent Ensemble, Wade Marynowsky, Lecter Macabre, Marquis De Sound, Monoperro, Eva Mueller, Vienna Parreno, Cara-Ann Simpson, Subscape Annex (USA)

CONTACT: Greg Shapley - Ph: 0401 152 434
EMAIL: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
WEB: http://soundoffailure.com for a complete program.

SOUND OF FAILURE
Experimental Music in a Post-digital Era

We live in an era of failure. On the global stage, the President of the most powerful country on earth has overseen thousands of deaths in two failed wars. In the third world the stench of poverty seeps through the pores of humanity in the guise of genocidal skirmishes, starvation and disease. Fundamentalists of all creeds goad each other like contestants on some new deadly reality TV show. And the optimism of the ’90s is washed away in a tide of apathy, indifference and hopelessness.

So where does this leave culture? If art is holding up a mirror to society, how long before the mirror shatters in sympathetic resonance to the horror it beholds?

A couple of months ago Don’t Look Gallery put out an open call to sound artists to propose a piece for an event called the ‘Sound of Failure’. From dozens of responses, 20 artists have been chosen to perform at Petersham Bowling Club on Saturday August 25, or to install works at Don’t Look Gallery, Dulwich Hill over the weekend of August 25/26.

These works generally employ technological failure, both as a euphemism for the state of the world, but also as a way of exposing, exploring and problematising the digital façade. These artists have attempted transcend the small rectangular screens and the latest Microsoft releases, opting instead to look at unintended consequences of technology – when it misbehaves or just gives up the goat.

Some artists use humour. Starella, for instance, juxtaposes ‘instruments’ such as ‘old wine bottles’ with digital technology and lyrics written on the backs of beer coasters. The failure in her musical sound comes from spending her life slipping through the gaps of every system she has known: family; society, and professional systems. In her performances she feels her way through drunken rants and musically attempts to determine what went wrong.

Others employ the literal failure of the technology itself. Tom Hall, a renowned sound artist from Brisbane, uses the degenerate sounds formed from the destruction of flimsy CD media combined with the glitch/skip/malfunction from ageing and damaged CD players. These form the basis of a live performance that combine in a progressive and layered manner, juxtaposing the usual frustration experienced when one strikes this inferior malfunction.

A detailed program is available from http://soundoffailure.com.

Sunday, 19 August, 2007
SPLINTER at NightTime #3

As part of the NightTime concert series the Splinter Orchestra will
perform in the massive foyer at Carriage Works, allowing for further
explorations in density and spatialisation.

“NightTime is an evening of music, improvisation, performance &
interventions. Each NightTime will hone in on live artworks from
(sub)cultures around the city.”

NightTime is co-ordinated by: Trevor Brown, Rosie Dennis and Lara Thoms.

Sunday, 19 August. 7pm start. $15 entry
Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveliegh.