EXTREME SOUNDS ARTIST FEATURE
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:: :: :: :: Runzelstirn and Gurgelstøck :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney and Melbourne.
RUNZELSTIRN & GURGLESTOCK is the work of long-running avant-garde
visionary Rudolf Eb.er. Originally emerging from the Swiss
Schlimpfluch group, along with folk such as Joke Lanz (aka Sudden
Infant), RUNZELSTIRN has built quite a reputation for severe
recordings and unpredictable live shows. His is the noise of
spluttering soundscapes, hyperventilating, blood curdling screaming,
gagging, dogs barking, punches, vomiting, whistles, laughs, creaks,
pops and squeals that emerge through the oddly-timed silences. All
this delivered via intense, audience frightening ?aktion? performances
that will undoubtedly shock. See Rudolf?s amazing, disturbing
paintings at his website.
www.artnotcrime.net/r+g
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:: :: :: :: Dave Phillips :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney and Melbourne.
Dave Phillips has been a member of Schimpfluch Gruppe, Fear Of God,
Ohne and Dead Peni. In his solo work he blends together field
recording, real noise, insect recordings, cracked electro acoustic
sound and voice to create extreme computer music, crafting cartoonish
sketches with organic and synthesized sounds, cut and placed in
(seemingly) free-form arrangements. Expect shocking performances
designed to unsettle, disturb and make your skin crawl.
http://www.tochnit-aleph.com/dp
http://www.myspace.com/dpdavephillips
Dave and Rudolf will be performing at Tongue and Groove in Brisbane on
5th July
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:: :: :: :: Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Melbourne
For a decade Sydney based Lucas Abela (aka Justice Yeldham and the
Dynamic Ribbon Device) has travelled the globe grinding his face into
a sheet of amplified plate glass. As he screams and hyperventilates
onto it and then pulls and squeezes at the sheet, the noise generated
wildly varies and wavers as it is run through some pedals and
processing that results in an orgy of speaker rattling noise. Expect
nausea, saliva, blood, fresh wounds and sickly sounds.
http://www.dualplover.com/justice.htm
http://www.myspace.com/justiceyeldham
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:: :: :: :: Natasha Anderson :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney
Natasha is a Melbourne musician who combines contrabass and garklein
recorders with electronics to create works which constantly shift
between dialectic extremes; those of frequency, the digital and the
bodily and the processed and the instrumental. Appearances in 2006
ranged from the Festival Musiques Innovatrices (France to the Skopje
Summer Festival (Macedonia) and the OFF Film Festival (Brisbane).
http://cajid.com/artists.html
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:: :: :: :: Thomas Knox Arnold :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney
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.
http://www.painfreefoundsound.com/pod
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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AUDIOVISUAL ARTIST FEATURE
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:: :: :: :: Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in all 3 cities.
Through the magic of mirrors, multiple projectors and highly ingenious
live on stage editing, this French audiovisual performance group
produce and direct a new film with each of their performances. Working
around a core narrative, they spill eddies of impromptu vignettes,
accompanied by a live soundtrack of tape fragments and ancient
synthesiser sounds. These three collaborators, Jérôme Noetinger,
Christophe Auger and Xavier Quérel, have worked together for ten
years, and have succeeded in pushing the boundaries of film and
soundtrack into the realm of live performance.
http://metamkine.free.fr
Jérôme?s mail order label www.metamkine.com
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:: :: :: :: Abject Leader :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney and Melbourne.
Abject Leader are Sally Golding (film, projectors) and Joel Stern
(concrete sound) and Jamie Hume (shenanigans). Hailing from Brisbane
Australia, they perform expanded cinema pieces for multiple 16mm
projectors, handmade film, feedback systems, incongruous foley noise,
sprockets and flicker, trumpet, and cardboard boxes.
www.abjectleader.org
Experimental and avant garde film and DVD www.otherfilm.org
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:: :: :: :: Kamusta :: :: :: ::
Performing at Liquid Architecture 8 in Sydney
Kamusta is a collaboration between Sydney based video artists Chris
Caines and Jessica Tyrrell. Jessica Tyrrell is an emerging
experimental filmmaker, video artist and writer. Chris Caines is a
filmmaker working in shorts, documentary, locative & wireless media.
Testing the filmic possibilities of VJ performance, Kamusta creates
live visual and audio pieces that aspire to a kind of “live cinema”.
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Digital democracy has become an increasingly popular topic among
academics, political commentators, and policy makers: there is much
talk about the potential of the Internet and other digital media
enhancing democracy. There has also been plenty of action, with
governments, civic organizations, universities and activists,
investigating this potential and supporting digital democracy
initiatives. All this commentary, research, policy making, and project
work draws on a diversity of understandings of digital democracy.
However, there is a lack of resources that clearly outline and examine
this diversity. This paper undertakes an ideal-typical reading and
critical evaluation of five digital democracy discourses and their
variations, with the aim of bringing attention to the range of
possibilities for democracy supported by digital media, and the
advantages and disadvantages of these different possibilities.
Lincoln is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Journalism
and Communication at The University of Queensland. He is co-editor of
the journal New Zealand Sociology and of the collection Radical
Democracy and the Internet (Palgrave, June 2007). Lincoln’s current
research involves a critical investigation of the practices and
meanings surrounding Internet use, with particular focus on the
extension of democratic cultures. He can be contacted at:
l.dahlberg@uq.edu.au
Hosted by: Research Initiative on International Activism:
www.international.activism.hss.uts.edu.au
James Goodman, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007.
Phone: (612) 9514 2714 Fax: (612) 9514 2332
Email: james.goodman@uts.edu.au
Web: www.international.activism.uts.edu.au
Liquid Architecture 8: Festival Of Sound Arts
Thursday June 28 – Saturday June 30
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, Sudden Infant and Dave Phillips.
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)
SUDDEN INFANT (SWITZERLAND)
DAVE PHILLIPS (SWITZERLAND)
NATASHA ANDERSON (MELBOURNE)
THOMAS KNOX ARNOLD
Saturday June 30 from 8pm – Main Concert Two
$15/$12
I was walking back to work from Chinatown after lunch this arvo when a woman came up to me and said that her car was out of petrol and that she didn’t have any money on her. She said she was up here from Melbourne to do a flight attendants course. There was something about the way she kept apologizing that got my sympathy. I gave her $60 which she promised she’d return to me at work tomorrow. Do you reckon she will? We’ll see…
My mind was blown last night by pixies’ astonishing performance at Luna Park. A Great Performance of Great Songs by a Great Band. And a crowd of thousands of fans in [rather than on] ecstasy.
It was so much better than I could have hoped for! Earlier in the day I’d watched the recent doco loudQUIETloud which portrays the band members as fragile, damaged people, incapable of communicating with each other. The performances in that film were excellent, but pedestrian compared with what we were treated to last night. It was one of those magical occasions where artist and audience lift each other to great heights. Kim Deal was beaming for the whole show, as was the audience. And like many in the packed crowd, I danced like a maniac to most of the songs. Here’s a little taste, via my phone camera:
An unforgettable concert. Sure there’s plenty to discuss around why this groundbreaking band isn’t releasing or performing new material, but I’ll save that for another time. Right now I’m still coming to terms with the realisation that I may have just seen the best gig of my life.
I was resigned to the fact that I wasn’t going to see the pixies, cos I wasn’t prepared to go to the V festival, and they weren’t going to do any other shows. Now I’ve just found out that they’re playing at Luna Park this Friday - apparently this was only announced last week and it’s already sold out! At $75 it’s a rip-off, but I still would have gone… Does anyone here know of any spare tickets or any other way of getting in?
UPDATE!
I’M GOING TO SEE THE PIXIES - YAY!!!
Although many websites, including Ticketmaster, claim that it’s sold out, I was able to buy a ticket directly from the Luna Park ‘Big Top Sydney’ website. $86.35 incl. booking fee. It is a rip-off, but hey, this is an historic event! So who else is coming? Hit that website quickly if you want to get a ticket.
BADRADIO PRODUCTIONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH KILLER WATTS SOUND SYSTEMS PRESENTS:
“THE AILING FESTIVAL”
SATURDAY 10TH MARCH
2007
2-8PM
OUTDOORS (T.B.A)
FREE!!!
A free not-for-profit event at the ass-end of summer
The Ailing festival aims to bring together the best (and worst) of Sydney’s noise/outsider/dumb/other music in a free, highly accessible public space.. there will be music, food, art, merch and you!
Artists:
WINNER
MOONMILK
TOECUTTER
TOYDEATH
LECTER MACABRE
RANK SINATRA
SUN OF THE SEVENTH SISTER
HAPPY GO HATE FUCK
DJ SMALLCOCK
NIKKY WEBSTER’S PRESEDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BENEFACTOR V’S THE STANLEY GREEN FOUNDATION
ONANI
Djs:
DJ MONOBROW
CORPORAL LEPER
REV MUCK HOLE
Other stuff:
DUAL PLOVER merch
TENZENMEN merch
BANG A GONG zines (Woolongong)
GOULBURN POULTRY FANCIER’S SOCIETY zines
BBQ by the QUEEN OF FRANCE
Banners:
NURSE MIFFY AND JROCKER
PLEASE GET THERE EARLY TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT TO ALL ARTISTS!!!!
(and to catch the ailing sunlight of the summer season)
BIOS:
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.
MOONMILK:
Moonmilk have been recording,releasing and performing improvised music together for around two years. The pair’s focus is on exploring the emotional and physical effects of sounds. Moonmilk’s first full length c.d release “The World Creaks” was releassed on Spanish Magic in 2006 a full length recording entitled “The winter Sun Has Teeth” Will be released early in 2007. Moonmilk also has plans for the release of an e.p in Brazil this year.
TOECUTTER:
Ibiza dance-core
TOYDEATH:
Toydeath use childrens electronic toys to create music you have never heard before! Thats right we only use toys! We have collected an arsenal of toys to make any kindergarten green with envy. You will hear talking George Bush, Jesus, Barbie Dolls, Speak and Spells, Rock Guitars, Sax-a-booms, Toy Telephones and lots of other fantastic Toys! Toydeath have also collected toys from their international tours and use Chinese, Dutch, German and Japanese language toys in our set. All toys have electronic additions(circuit bending) to turn them into wild and unique
LECTER MACABRE:
Bio: Lecter Macabre are the music of the spheres, ambient astral reconnaissance, extreme noise terror, radio emmissions from the heat death at the centre of the universe, psychic turmoil at the edge of sleep, unknowable and primal.
Please buckle your seatbelts around your head, the captain for this trip deep within the confines of the hollow earth is none other than the good and kind Doctor KKlarence Von Macabre, a practitioner of free form mesmeric animal magnetisim who shall pour golden honey into your trembling earballs whilst whispering sweet nothings to your boiling brain of blood.
Selah
Luther Blissett (RIP)
Mark Selway (ex-Music For Big Game Hunting) - Theremin
Josh Shipton (TRIANGLE, Marquis De Sound) - Voice
RANK SINATRA:
Black Metal Karaoke
SUN OF THE SEVENTH SISTER:
Sun of the Seventh Sister (Blue Mountains)
Blue Mountains inspired Ecstatic Noise ensemble with no members.
HAPPY GO HATE FUCK:
Lloyd + Daniel + whoever the drummer is for the night = Happy Go Hate Fuck.
Noise type stuff
DJ SMALLCOCK:
Plays under a number of monkiers is part of Dual Plover www.dualplover.com
NIKKY WEBSTER’S PRESEDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BENEFACTOR V’S THE STANLEY GREEN FOUNDATION:
Fanclub with fx machines and tape destruction
ONANI:
ONANI BRINGS DA RUCKUS. ONANI IS THE BLACK AND WHITE COOKIE OF NOISE. Daryl and Nic first jammed sometime in the middle of 2005 with pretty much no gear. Nic got a way brutal ear infection the next day, it must have brought the ruckus. Shits continued since, they got more gear. Once they freaked out these Axel Rose looking dudes when we played at this girls birthday party. They were all like “WTF,?!?!?!?”. Sound&Fury described Onani as “Harsh, but not grating. Dense, but not cluttered. You’d think they’d been at it for decades, such is the focus and maturity they display” but really, we’re just two kids who can’t play our instruments properly.
DJ MONOBROW (2RRR 88.5fm)
collector/hoarder of all things musically strange including outsider music; homemade/private press lp’s; barrel organ records; avant garde; free jazz; spoken word; grannies singing pop songs; kiddies singing comformist pop muzak; how-to language records; sexi flexi discs; christian ventriloquist puppets singing “Jesus Loves Me”; animals singing beatles songs; and more………
DJ CORPORAL LEPER(2RRR 88.5fm):
Dj Corporal leper like’s girl scouts in tumble dryers and the cackle sisters, is prone to obsessivley collecting bhamitzvah sing-along tapes and the sounds of people’s blenders. She likes to play recordings of people trying really hard and not gettting anywhere (talent show’s, jilted lover’s mixtapes, foghorn recordings for documentation purposes) and also has a love of noise.
She also does a radio show with her friend Josh on 2rrr 88.5fm called RADIO SHOW.
