Shannon O’Neill

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

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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Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 2

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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kevin blechdom is returning to australia in august/september! highly recommended. unfortunately i’ll be o/s when she plays in sydney - maybe i’ll make it to the blue mountains show, or maybe there’ll be another sydney gig around then.

also, lieutenant colonel spastic howitzer is playing at hermann’s this friday! more info below:

5 years on since our last installment of the rebirth of fool compilation series we have made yet another abomination to wealth creation in volume 3. the worst one yet and also the most expensive, labour intensive item we’ve produced. for reasons i cant remember this cd comes packaged in a hand bound, gold blocked, 24 page book (thanks keggles) and is selling for the same amount as the rest of our cheaply produced and put together items!

so if you wanna dumb your ears down between bouts of xenakis and cage and hear the latest in retardation like 7u? channeling wesley willis in an ode to this very organization, testimonials from my miserablelife.com put to music by fool veterans new waver, unrequited love songs set in seedy adelaide establishments, instructional songwriting cassettes, gay audio porn spoken in thick australian accents, absurd police tapes and a whole lotta other stuff not worth listing then this is the album for you.

we’re launching the album in 4 sleeps time at our HAPPY NEW FINANCIAL YEAR PARTY being held this friday the 30th june at HERMANNS, cnr city and butlin streets, sydney university. artists from the album rank sinatra, lt colonel spastic howitzer and naked on the vague (hoppy has bad tables track on fool 3) will be performing as well as a host of others including curse ov dialect, toecutter, the warm feelings, rev kriss hades, bradbury and justice yeldham, plus taxation themed karaoke. all this and more for a poultry 8 bucks or 5 if your a bludger.

it’s also a celebration of 10 years as a label, yes this year marks 10 years since lucas first forked out the cash for his belated release ‘a kombi - music to drive by’ which subsequently brought dualpLOVER into the world. a partnership was formed soon after when friend and swerve joined the fold shortly before releasing ‘alternahunk’ the labels second offering which also made the house of plover not just a vanity label for lucas but a fully fledged concern.

since then, somehow, to our bewilderment we have been wrongly labeled as a novelty music label, by people unable to get a total grasp of the musical importance of releases like ’singing sadie’ or ‘deano merino’. so far this year our release schedule reflects our desire to shake this wrongly formed image with some hard hitting new titles filled with focused aggression fraught with ideology that will cause irreparable changes to a society that allows this type of unchecked DIY publishing to exist in the first place. just take a look at our first 3 explosive releases this year alone. toxic lipsticks’ ‘prisoner of hormones’ ep is an enraged expose on the current youth identity crisis that finds woman of apparent maturity singing at an emotional level of a 14 year old’s. new wavers - ‘neuters’ retrospective (released in collaboration with melbourne’s spill label) delves deep into the corporate world in the 90’s that led to current fascination with australian bands that sound like old bands form the past that where highly successful. and bradbury’s latest masterpiece ‘instant obvilian’ which unmasked the true horror of what homosexual electronic music can really be.

and it keeps on coming in the next few months expect new plover goodies from ‘naked on the vague’ whose debut 7 inch single is currently being pressed in nashville Tennessee and a new full length album ‘the timid mischief’ by old timing banjo legend ‘al duvall’.

also very fucking exciting news is the upcoming kevin blechdom tour we’re booking this august / september all over the country. she’s fucking tops and you’ld be considered a dickhead to miss this, more info soon.

http://www.dualplover.com/blechdom.html

other future news, dualplover plans to diversify into the film world and hold a drive-in short film festival. we are currently looking for a nice car park to hold this event in and have started the call out for films to show no deadline yet but if you have any short films, animations, music videos or found footage that’s not quite right please send it to us for consideration to dualplover drive-in film festival pobox 983 darlinghurst nsw 1300.

thankyou for your time

dualplover.com

In case you were wondering wtf was going on in this scene from X-Men 3:

It’s a reference to this fan video:

Weird. (The second video actually goes for nine minutes, but that two minute excerpt is plenty. Go to YouTube if you want to see the full version.)

Apparently it was quite an in-joke with the filmmakers.

Btw I’m in love with Kitty Pryde (sorry Stephen Fry!). It’s a shame that she, Rogue and Nightcrawler didn’t play a larger part in the films, as they were probably my fave characters in the 80s comix. The way Rogue in particular was portrayed was one of the most disappointing aspects of the films, as I think most fans of the comics would agree.

To all NSW Film and TV Industry technicians,

Please read this letter of explanation from the NSW Film Makers Group regarding our concerns and objectives for the state of our industry.
This concerns you all, and your assistance will be greatly appreciated.

NSW Film Makers Group update - June 1, 2006

A meeting was called 6 weeks ago when a group of concerned technicians met informally at Canal Road Film Centre. The significant lack of work in all areas of film and television production including television advertising, and the restriction of NSW technicians working in Victoria, had brought this small group together. Several members of the group had written to government expressing the plight of the industry. The group has now had 6 meetings and this letter is to update and inform those interested in the outcome of those meetings. The group has been communicating with the Victorian Guild and as a consequence an open letter has been sent and distributed by the technicians booking agents from the Victorian Guild, to all NSW technicians. This letter explains that it was not the intention of the Victorian Guild to stop any interstate technicians from working in Victoria. The group is still pursuing the reasons why NSW technicians were not welcome to work in Victoria.
The group has identified and recognized the core reasons why the film industry (including feature, TV and TVC’s) is in unprecedented depression. These are listed as follows -

* Support for the film industry by Governments is not effective.
* Location costs - council charges, service charges and location fees.
* Contractual arrangements for cast/extras.
* Technicians’ rates and conditions in Sydney.

The group also recognises that the problems that ail our industry are not unique to NSW. The group has discussed including all stakeholders -suppliers, actors, extras, writers, directors, producers, editors, post production houses, service providers, etc. - in helping with the endeavours of the group, because it is in everyone’s interest. The group recognizes that a technician only organisation will not be effective to try and solve the industries problems. Anyone or any organisation that is involved in the production of film and television, in any form, will be welcome to join the group. As this is a national issue, the group will also pioneer a nation wide filmmakers group, in conjunction with other state film groups.
The group’s objectives are focusing on the following -

* Encourage all contributors and stakeholders in the film and television industry to join the group.
* Create an electronic mechanism to allow the efficient and speedy communication of information to all those wishing to support the endeavours of the group.
* Engage a professional lobbyist and strategists to assist in communicating the group’s needs to all members and Government bodies and agents.

Two weeks ago, the group decided on a name for the organisation - The NSW Film Makers Group. This should be formalized within the next few weeks. Last week, the group formalised its’ vision statement and top 10 objectives. The group has been offered generous financial support from some technicians and suppliers. Canal Road Film Centre has very generously offered, not only considerable finances, but also office space and the address for the organisation. The group will also be advertising for a co-ordinater to assist with the formation of the organisation.
The group has received the lists from the booking agents 3 week ago with the names of all of those technicians keen to show their support for the group. Thanks to all of you who have offered help and support.

The group apologises to all of those that have felt left out. To be a success, the group will need everyone’s support but please be patient. Once the website and internet forum are up and going we can all communicate directly and information, input and the hard work can all be realized with a great deal more efficiency and speed. The structure and the management of the organization have not been formalised. Once we are all communicating we can then all have a say on who is to represent this organisation and what we want to say.

David Nichols on behalf of Ray Brown, Tristran Milani, Reg Garside, Sean Conway, Jane Griffin, Penny Baldwin, Anna Howard, Simon Williams, Michael Adcock, Adrien Seffrin, Nikki Long, John Osmond, Gary Lincloln, Paul Booth, Michi Marosszeky, Moses Fotofili, Geoff Wharton, Michael Phillips, Paul Arnott, Sally Eccleston, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Brian Breheny, David Lee, Matt Toll, Warren Grieef, KenHazelwood, Dugal Campbell, Harry Dakanalis, Paul Thompson, Richard Mason.

Adrian and I will be DJing at this.

dis_or_ien_ta_tion

Friday 16th June
8pm - 12am
Hermann’s Bar
Cnr City Rd & Bultin Ave (opp. Sydney Uni Main entrance), Darlington

$7/$5 concession

feat:
TOYDEATH
RIK RUE and FOLD
LECTER MACABRE
KAMUSTA
FUNKMEISTER G AND THE JOHN RA BENDERS

+ WAKE UP AND LISTEN DJ’S

Presented by the UTS Sound Collective
www.disor.org

TOYDEATH
Formed in 1995 Sydney band Toydeath use children’s electronic toys to create music you have never heard before! That’s right we only use toys! We have collected an arsenal of toys to make any kindergarten green with envy.

You will hear talking 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. Many of the toys have electronic additions (circuit bending) to turn them into wild and unique instruments

We also assume toy like characters with colourful costumes as part of our stage show. On stage you will see GiJoe, L’Booby, Nursey and Trailer Trash Barbie!
www.toydeath.com

RIK RUE AND FOLD
RIK RUE
Throughout his 30 year career, Rik has been involved in many multi-faceted areas of audio works. He is a founding member of internationally renowned experimental improvisation group the Machine for Making Sense with whom he has performed extensively. He has constructed atmospheric soundscapes for dance/theatre groups such as Gravity Feed, and is a founding member of electronic trio Social Interiors.

Rik’s radiophonic compositions have been broadcast in Australia, Europe, UK, USA, Canada and Asia and he has regularly performed both solo and with other musicians locally and internationally, as well as releasing numerous recordings of his own works.

For this performance he will be collaborating with John Jacobs on Things Change, Things Remain the Same.

FOLD / JOHN JACOBS
John Jacobs has been making improvised collaborative electronic poems for about twenty five years. He’s a long time fan of Rik Rue’s associative collages.

John’s video work began with home brew RF oscillators, magnets and modified televisions. His work with video Subvertigo was characterised by unwieldy analogue mixer/VHS/camera feed back rigs at underground techno parties.

Currently he is in a ‘free-jazz’ laptop VJ mode, researching aleatoric modes of visual expression with Fold.
www.fold.chaos.org.au

LECTER MACABRE
Lecter Macabre are the music of the spheres, ambient astral reconnaissance, extreme noise terror, nocturnal emmissions from the heat death at the centre of the universe, psychic turmoil at the edge of sleep, unknowable and primal reaching into the reptilian brain buried deep within us all. Their live perfomances become cathartic experiments in high volume free form sonic mesmerism, not for the faint of heart or weak of bladder, become spherical nubile little minkies………become spherical.

Mark Selway (ex-Music For Big Game Hunting) - Theremin
Josh Shipton (TRIANGLE, Marquis De Sound) – Voice

KAMUSTA
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. Fusing a cinematic sensibilty with a love of poetic text, she creates elusive and abstract video pieces.

Chris Caines is a filmmaker working in shorts, documentary, locative & wireless media. His work has been commissioned, screened and broadcast internationally & includes screenings/exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery, the MCA, ACMI & the Cannes, Berlin & Venice film festivals.

Testing the filmic possibilities of VJ performance, Kamusta creates live visual and audio pieces that aspire to a kind of “live cinema”.

Disorientation will see the debut of, ‘A Place You Can Never Go To’, a “live cinema” experiment that creates a world of suggested narratives, fragmented characters, half-heard words and takes the audience on a haunting visual and sonic journey to a place they have never been before.

FUNKMEISTER G AND THE JOHN RA BENDERS
The John Ra Benders are a loose group of Funkmeister G’s mates, who when not playing music, like to do this.

No performance is rehearsed & instruments may be decided upon at the last minute. Funkmeister G acts as conductor for the John Ra Benders, as well as doing his own thing…however, some or all of the Benders may choose to ignore him [or maybe not even show up].

We love music/sound with passion, it’s our life & that’s why we feel it should never be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

After hearing about them everywhere in recent months I finally checked out the music of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, two projects of American indie singer/songwriter Ben Gibbard.

Both bands have similar songs, with a tendency for bittersweet lyrics and melodies, but whereas Death Cab is an indie rock band that has been active since the mid 90s, Postal is a more recent collaboration with electronic music producer Jimmy Tamborello aka Dntel.

I listened to nearly all of their recordings. They’re very enjoyable and catchy (especially the recent albums) albeit somewhat innocuous. And I watched their videos, including the Death Cab tour film Drive Well, Sleep Carefully which like most rockumentaries isn’t very good, but worth a look if you like the music.

Then a funny thing happened. For the next few days my mind started creating Gibbard-style tunes. There were several of them, a few of which I imagined being good enough to record. I soon forgot most of them but managed to record one using software. The results were disappointing, which reminded me that pop music is as much about the sound as the song, and I’m not setup for making pop sounds at the moment (although I’m well sorted for experimental music!).

One of the keys to Gibbard’s music is his voice, which really is the perfect American indiepop nerdboy voice, with a pure, vibratoless tone. (Although his singing is much less convincing live (on the videos I’ve seen) which is OK when he’s among fans, but really not very good on TV show appearances.)

Death Cab for Cutie - Ben Gibbard, second from left

I still don’t have the confidence to record my singing with any conviction (I’ll occasionally sing a part as a way of sketching it before replacing it with another sound). I really believe I could, but need to get over the fear - of my music snob friends laughing at me as much as of just not being very good. Maybe some lessons would help me get over that hurdle. Likewise with guitar.

Not that I want to emulate Gibbard’s music - that was just an exercise, as I wanted to do something with those tunes that were popping into my head. If I actually developed any of them I’m sure they’d mutate into something quite different. But the experience did reinforce my ongoing urge to do some sort of vocal/song project. I’m just not sure of the best way to approach it. I guess the easiest way would be to start as a solo electronic project, that way I wouldn’t have to show it to anyone until I was happy with it. But it would be nice to have collaborators…

The thing is that although I love a lot of indie music I’m not into the indie scene at all. The Broken Social Scene gig that I went to recently was great musically, but I found the majority of the audience incredibly annoying. I’m much more at home in my experimental music ghetto.

But I’ve been listening to so much indie lately (I blame Last.fm) that it’s beginning to affect me. The other day I found myself wearing a short sleeve t shirt over a long sleeve t shirt! And I even dug out my old Chuck Taylors which I hadn’t worn since the 80s, but the rubber had turned to chalk. I went online and discovered to my delight that Converse now make them in black monochrome! I almost bought them until I discovered that they charge about 50 bucks for postage, and they won’t deliver to P.O. boxes (what’s up with that?).

What’s happening to me?? I hope I’m not becoming a grup! Nah, it’s probably just a phase I’m going through…

Some interesting free talks coming up in Sydney:

1) Key Concepts lecture series at Sydney Uni. A follow-up to last year’s Key Thinkers series which I couldn’t make due to work commitments. I’m looking forward to attending some of these.

Wednesday 3 May ‘Terra Nullius’ Andrew Fitzmaurice
Wednesday 10 May ‘Nationalism’ Glenda Sluga
Wednesday 17 May ‘Freedom’ Duncan Ivison
Wednesday 24 May ‘Truth’ Huw Price
Wednesday 31 May ‘Racism’ Ghassan Hage
Wednesday 7 June ‘Death’ Jennann Ismael
Wednesday 14 June ‘Globalisation’ Raewyn Connell

Venue: NEW VENUE FOR 2006 Footbridge Theatre The University of Sydney

Outspoken novelist, commentator and new-tech guru CORY DOCTOROW debates the future for filmmakers and media artists in this special event presented by Popcorn Taxi and the Australian Film Commission. Doctorow asks where does Hollywood get off, “with its antiquated business model, in treating the media user as a criminal with their draconian copyright laws?…Such laws limit the creative possibilities for artists and users.”An innovativeand brilliant thinker Doctorow proposes a revolutionary new model for media artists that defies the Digital Rights Management: “Technologies that seek to restrict the copying and use of digital works are wrong and wrong-headed”, Cory says. “Wrong because they don’t work, because they suppress creativity, and because they treat honest users like crooks. Wrong-headed because they seek to make digital works act as much as possibly like analog works. No DVD owner wants a way to do less with her movies, and companies that try to sell her technologies to do this deserve to go broke.”This debate is essential for any filmmaker and media artist who wants to give serious consideration to the future of their Work. The evening will include an interview and audience Q&A conducted by MARCUS GILLEZEAU, filmmaker (Firelight) and a specialist in digital production technologies.

popcorn taxi
Rated: R18+ EXEMPT from CLASSIFICATION
Time: 7.00pmDate: Wednesday, April, 19th, 2006
Where: Greater Union Bondi Junction
Address: Level 6, 500 Oxford Street, Westfield Bondi Junction Entry: Free

These were given out at Max’s funeral. I wanted to post them earlier, but my scanner stopped working and I’ve only just got a new one.

Click on this image to read the story of an amazing life: