My review of the NOW now festival for RealTime is now online (and in print). In the same issue is Ben Byrne‘s response to Nigel Helyer‘s ‘critique’ of laptop music performance.
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Deleuze & Guattari’s concept of ‘assemblage’ is going to be important in my PhD for thinking about ‘appropriation’. A friend in Sydney is assembling a symposium on assemblage. There will be speakers on such topics as ‘minor literature’, cultural industries and (post-)subcultures. The details, including date, are yet to be fixed, and it will be something of an underground event i.e. outside of academia and with little publicity. If you’re interested in participating (as a speaker or punter) please let me know. Bradbury and Newman will be playing at Frigid tomorrow. Highly recommended (I’d go but will be busy with radio). Well done Frigid for being more adventurous in its programming this year. is the in thing this week, apparently. I won’t be joining unless I eventually succumb to peer pressure. I don’t want people to know about every piece of music I listen to! What happened to privacy? And I already have too much music to listen to without needing yet another source of ‘recommendations’. will be in Sydney in a few weeks, playing at the Metro on Saturday March 4, and at the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival on Sunday March 5. I might go to their Metro show. Anyone else up for it? s0metim3s has given us her favourites of 2005. I wasn’t going to do this, but since I’m waiting for South Africa to be bowled out before I head out for the rest of the day… Favourites of 2005 I’ve restricted this to things that were published/screened or events that happened in 2005. Albums 50 Foot Wave – Golden Ocean It was mainly pop/rock for me this year – I even bought a guitar (which I still can’t play)! The sort of experimental music that I’d usually obsess over, this year I’d generally listen to once or twice before moving on. See Utility Fog for all the postfolkrocktronica that I should’ve been listening to. Blogs Too many – see the blog roll. It has been a privilege to have participated in the blog phenomenon and to have met so many amazing people. Extra love to those who have commented at, or linked to this humble blog. Films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I didn’t go to the cinema nearly enough this year. Games Dragonshard Live Music Ben Byrne & Clayton Thomas @ Disorientation I also played live more often this year than any other. Highlights included a solo performance at the National Gallery of Australia for Liquid Architecture 6, Canberra; a technically disastrous but well-received set with WUAL for Liquid Architecture 6, Melbourne; better WUAL performances at Disorientation and Electrofringe; duo performances with Rik Rue (at if you like improvised music…), John Jacobs (at e)scapes) and Ben Byrne (twice, at the NOW now, and a VJ performance at Science Fiction); a solo performance at The Night Air Audiotheque; a solo performance and a Time Being DJ performance at Disorientation; performances with the Splinter Orchestra at Liquid Architecture 6, Sydney and Science Fiction. TV Arrested Development Thank goodness for broadband. What’s In / What’s Out What’s out: CDs What’s in: TEH INTERNETS! I’m planning to catch up with an old friend over a pub lunch, but I’m not sure where to go. Anywhere from the CBD to the inner west would be fine. But not too yuppified. I was thinking the Courthouse in Newtown or the Strawberry Hills, but I’m not sure if they do lunch. Any suggestions? |
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