Shannon O’Neill

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.

Electrofringe 2007 Program Online!

The full program for Electrofringe is now online. This year sees an unprecedented diversity in the Electrofringe program, as well as a stock of brilliant and stimulating events of the calibre you’ve come to expect from the October long weekend in Newcastle. Themes include accessibility and collaboration in electronic arts, wearable art, rethought radio and new approaches to electronic music. Screen works, contemporary dance, immersive and site specific works are nestled alongside dynamic panel discussions, workshops and gigs.

International guests include Tim Hecker (Canada), Leafcutter John (UK), Sebastien Roux (France), Jason Kahn (USA) and Ralph Steinbruchel (CH) alongside local artists including Robin Fox, Machina Aux Rock, Darrin Verhagen, SpatnLoogie, Sanso-Xtro, Pimmon, Shannon O’Neill and Gail Priest, plus may more.

Head to the Electrofringe website, www.electrofringe.net to check out the program and stay tuned for further updates.

Monday, 30 July, 2007
the NOW now series #14 at the Last Bastion of Civilization
Suite 202, 2nd floor, 267-271 Cleveland St, Surry Hills, Sydney.

The Splinter Orchestra

CD Launch. Recorded last December at Studio 301. Splitrec proudly will release the disk at this gig.

and the band for the launch is:

Laura Altman - clarinet. Robbie Avenaim - percussion. Karen Booth - alto sax. Monika Brooks - accordian. Rory Brown - double bass. Ben Byrne - laptop. Rod Cooper - klunk. Gerard Crewdson - trombone. Abel Cross - electric bass. Jim Denley - flutes and flax. Joe Derrick - trumpet. Sam Dobson - double bass. Peter Farrar - alto sax. Simon Ferenci - trumpet. Lloyd Honeybrook - alto sax. Cass McGlynn - tenor horn. Mike Majkowski - double bass. Alex Masso - percussion. Shannon O’Neill - synth. Mathew Ottignon - clarinet and flute. Ian Pieterse - baritone sax. Finn Ryan - percussion. Michael Sheridan - electric guitar. Milica Stefanovic - electric bass. Dan Whiting - laptop.

8pm. $10/$8

http://thenownow.net/series/

I’ve been appointed program manager of ANAT’s ‘Embracing Sound Project’ (ESP). Over the next year I’ll be mapping the state of sound arts in Australia, networking and liaising with artists and organisations to see what sort of infrastructures might be desirable, and advocating sound arts to funding bodies and the media. It’s going to be interesting, travelling to parts of Australia that I’ve never been to and meeting lots of people.

There’ll be more info soon on this blog, as well as various email lists and on a forthcoming blog at ANAT, but please get in touch if you have any immediate ideas.

This job is in addition to teaching at UTS, doing a PhD, running Alias Frequencies, oh and trying to make art - so I’m a busy boy right now. I’m going to have to learn how to say no! =)

One thing I’ve let go of is Liquid Architecture, and it was great to go out on a high, with a very successful festival at Carriageworks. See Flickr for some of my photos.

WHAT: Don’t Look Gallery Cult Movie Fundraiser (+ lucky door prize + popcorn!)

WHEN: Saturday July 28, 6pm (please RSVP)

WHERE: Petersham Bowling Club
77 Brighton Street, Petersham

COST: $20 full/$10 concession

CONTACT: Greg Shapley - Ph: 0401 152 434
EMAIL: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
WEB: myspace.com/dontlookgallery

Don’t Look Gallery Needs Your Help!

On Saturday July 28, we’re having a Cult Movie Night at Petersham Bowling Club to help raise money to keep Don’t Look Gallery going. For $20/$10 you get four hours of challenging and quirky full length films, shorts and obscure (perhaps even bizarre) public service announcements. Some highlights will include the controversial 1932 pic ‘Freaks’, and the post-WWII US propaganda short, ‘Make Mine Freedom’.

We’ve had a few big expenses lately (including a broken window) and digital projectors don’t grow on trees! So please show your support so we can keep up a bit of Kulcha in the outer-inner-west.

If you know you can make it please RSVP so we can have some idea of numbers. Thanks for your support!

Greg Shapley
Don’t Look Gallery

In response to an application by the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) on behalf of its member artists and record labels, today the Copyright Tribunal is reported to have ordered an increase to the licence fees payable by nightclub venues and commercially organised dance party operators. The rate for licensed sound recordings played in nightclubs will be raised from $0.07 per person to $1.05 per person and from $0.20 to $3.05 per person for dance parties.

[via]

A 1500% increase??

WHAT: Call for submissions for ‘The Sound of Failure’ (experimental music night)

SUBMISSION WEBSITE: http://soundoffailure.com

WHEN: Saturday, August 28, 7pm

WHERE: Petersham Bowling Club
77 Brighton Street, Petersham

CONTACT: Greg Shapley - Ph: 0401 152 434
EMAIL: dontlookgallery@gmail.com

SPONSORED BY: Don’t Look Gallery (http://myspace.com/dontlookgallery)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Sound of Failure is an audio event sponsored by Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery of Dulwich Hill (Sydney, Australia) to explore the concept of ‘failure’ in a post-digital era. In this era
sound artists must look beyond the digital facade (the ‘graphics user interface’ and the like) to represent the times in which we live (times that are politically and socially, themselves, littered with
failures).

In the ’90s, digital technologies like the CD player made the ‘Glitch’ aesthetic possible, which, according to Kim Cascone ‘was developed in part as a result of the immersive experience of working in
environments suffused with digital technology: computer fans whirring, laser printers churning out documents, the sonification of user-interfaces, and the muffled noise of hard drives. But more
specifically, it is from the “failure” of digital technology that this new work has emerged’.

But what, in this era of ‘Failure’, is possible beyond the glitch? How do we exploit the possibilities beyond the digital façade without just reverting back to the seemingly primitive world of the analogue?

We are now seeking submissions from musicians who attempt to address this question in their works. To read the full brief, and to submit a proposal, please go to http://soundoffailure.com

The Sound of Failure will be held at the Petersham Bowling Club on August 25. For more information about Don’t Look Gallery please go to http://myspace.com/dontlookgallery

Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 8 :: Tuesday 26th June, 2007

:: :: :: ABC Radio National special :: :: ::

As part of the festival on Radio National Sunday night 1st July at 8.35pm till 10pm Liquid Architecture and The Night Air present “Radiophonic Remix”. Some of Australia’s leading sound artists interpret the idea of remix for radio.

Buttress O’Kneel remixes her favorite remixers, including Negativland, John Oswald and Coldcut.
Rik Rue remixes a whole world of sounds and music.
][oyd Barrett remixes dreams, nightmares and talkback radio.
Lucas Darklord remixes the culture of Black Metal.
And Shannon O’Neill remixes all of them.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/nightair

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:: :: :: Resonant Tapestry Liquid Architecture special :: :: ::

Resonant Tapestry is an experimental radio show that interweaves music genres, taking listeners on an elaborate sonic journey.

http://www.straightup.com.au/page?n=825

This episode Migration Of The Snails celebrates the eighth coming of Australia’s premier sound-arts festival Liquid Architecture. A special thanks to Shannon O’Neill and Ben Byrne of Alias Frequencies for organising the Sydney LA8 shows. This playlist features some artists from their net release Pink Sheets - Edition One www.aliasfrequencies.org/ps

: : RESONANT TAPESTRY : :
Presented by Yun Mei & Sofie Loizou
www.myspace.com/resonantapestry
www.myspace.com/plumindustries
www.myspace.com/sofieloizoumusic

Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html
TICKETS :: Sydney, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au Brisbane
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

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Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 7 :: Friday 22nd June, 2007

:: :: LA8 radio feature :: ::
New Music Up Late, ABC Classic FM
Saturday 23rd June 10.30pm
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/newmusic
featuring a live interview with artistic director Nat Bates

Liquid Architecture 8 Launches In Sydney Next Week!

Liquid Architecture 8 kicks off in Sydney next week at the Carriageworks with three nights of performance from June 28 to 30. International guests include the shudder inducing French audiovisual performance group Cellule d?Intervention Metamkine and Swiss aktionist performance artists Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock and Dave Phillips, who will perform alongside local artists Tony Mason-Cox, Natasha Anderson, Peter Newman and Lloyd Barrett, among many more.

First up on the Thursday night is the gala opening, a night of skewed interpretations of popular music with Winner, Tony Mason Cox and Daniel Green, before a night of extreme performance on the Friday with Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Dave Phillips, Natasha Anderson and Lucas Darklord before an AV spectacular on Saturday night featuring Cellule D’Intervention Metamkine, Lloyd Barrett, Abject Leader, Kamusta and Peter Newman, to close the festival. Also, the ?Terminal? installation program of sound works will be in the foyer for the duration of the festival. Season passes are only $30 too so be sure to make the most of the opportunity and check out the whole festival.

SYDNEY ARTIST FEATURE
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:: :: :: :: Winner :: :: :: ::
Winner is Sydney’s own psychotic supergroup covers band. Your favourite pop hits as you’ve never heard them before. Get down to such classics as Bohemian Rhapsody and Tainted Love as performed by a demented Eno-era Roxy Music featuring Sweden, Swerve and Adrian (Spastic Howitzer) Bertram.

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:: :: :: :: Peter Newman :: :: :: ::
Peter Newman is an emerging artist based in Sydney who primarily produces time-based works for both installation and performance. His practice is concerned with intuitively drawing from both digital technologies and organic artmaking methodologies in aspiring towards a seamless fluidity of process, ultimately offering an abstract cinema for the ears and eyes. He is driven by a need to explore the complex nature of time and its perception, and to produce work which exists firmly within it, devoid of an abstract critical distance. Newman has performed or exhibited around Australia in varying capacities at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the 2004 and 2006 Sydney Big Day Out music festival, and numerous artist-run spaces such as First Draft and Phatspace. Several of his sound and video works travelled to South Korea last year to be part of the Seoul Fringe Festival and Gwangju Biennale.

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:: :: :: :: Thomas Knox Arnold :: :: :: ::
Thomas Knox Arnold is a Sydney based artist who is not very interested in sport and rather focuses much of his attention on/to sound/s. Once one half of cult radio program Dark Hours (broadcast on 2RRR throughout much of the 90s), he now studies at the University of Western Sydney and releases music under the name Lucas Darklord. Check out his releases on Painfree Found Sound.

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:: :: :: :: Tony Mason-Cox with Ann Onymous :: :: :: ::
Tony Mason-Cox is an Australian insurance salesman.

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Full program details at www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/la8program.html
TICKETS :: Sydney, Melbourne www.moshtix.com.au Brisbane
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

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The program has been locked off and we can’t wait for the festival to begin! Please tell your friends about it. Hope to see you there!

Liquid Architecture 8 Sydney: Festival of Sound Arts
Thursday June 28 – Saturday June 30
http://liquidarchitecture.org.au

Alias Frequencies and Performance Space present Liquid Architecture 8
at the Carriagworks from Thursday June 28 to Saturday June 30 2007.
The festival will this year feature three nights of groundbreaking
performances from local and international artists as well as an
installation program staged in the unique environs of the
Carriagework’s wonderful original architecture. International guests
include the shudder inducing French audiovisual performance group
Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine and Swiss aktionist performance
artists Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock and Dave Phillips.

Season Passes - $30/$25
available from Moshtix
http://moshtix.com.au

Full Program:

Thursday June 28 from 8pm – Gala Opening!
$10/$8

WINNER
TONY MASON-COX WITH ANN ONYMOUS
THE DANIEL GREEN TRIBUTE SHOW

+ Very Special Guests!

Friday June 29 from 8pm – Main Concert One
$15/$12

RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK (SWITZERLAND)
DAVE PHILLIPS (SWITZERLAND)
NATASHA ANDERSON (MELBOURNE)
LUCAS DARKLORD

Saturday June 30 from 8pm – Main Concert Two
$15/$12

CELLULE D’INTERVENTION METAMKINE (FRANCE)
][OYD BARRETT (BRISBANE)
ABJECT LEADER (BRISBANE)
KAMUSTA
PETER NEWMAN

+ THE NIGHT AIR: REMIX
ABC Radio National 8.35pm, Sunday July 1.
Four leading Australian sound artists (][oyd Barrett, Lucas Darklord,
Buttress O’Kneel and Rik Rue) explore the concept of the radiophonic
remix and are in turn remixed by Shannon O’Neill.

+ ‘TERMINAL’ Exhibition
at Carriageworks throughout the festival.
Artists Include:

NATASHA ANDERSON
JOKE LANZ
RIK RUE
WADE MARYNOWSKY

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