Electrofringe is now calling for proposals for the 2009 festival. We are looking for creative expressions from artists, sound artists, performers, media makers, digital filmmakers, researchers, cross-artform practitioners, curators, producers, writers, experimenters, enthusiasts and anyone who doesn’t fit these boxes.

Electrofringe is a five-day festival of electronic arts and culture held from the 1st – [...]]]>

2009 ELECTROFRINGE FESTIVAL – CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Electrofringe is now calling for proposals for the 2009 festival. We
are looking for creative expressions from artists, sound artists,
performers, media makers, digital filmmakers, researchers,
cross-artform practitioners, curators, producers, writers,
experimenters, enthusiasts and anyone who doesn’t fit these boxes.

Electrofringe is a five-day festival of electronic arts and culture
held from the 1st – 5th October 2009 in Newcastle, Australia.
Electrofringe is part of a group of festivals collected together under
the This Is Not Art umbrella. Electrofringe is committed to fostering
creative and innovative use and re-use of technology and electronic
artforms, while focusing on artistic development and skills exchange.

Electrofringe seeks proposals in the following program areas:
Artist and project presentations, workshops and demonstrations,
panels, interventions, live art, performance (Electro-Performance),
residencies (Electro-Residencies), mobile works (Electro-Manoeuvre),
online artworks (Electro-Online) and single-channel video works
(Electro-Projections & Electro-Être) plus special events (something
you want to propose).

All presentations, panels, workshops, demonstrations, panels,
performance, residency, intervention, live and mobile works submission
proposals are due by TUESDAY 31st MARCH 2009.

Only online artworks (Electro-Online) and single-channel video works
(Electro-Projections & Electro-Être) submission proposals are due by
SUNDAY 31st MAY 2009.

See the Electrofringe website for submission details: www.electrofringe.net

this recently hurt my brain:

meanwhile, my love affair with cardiacs continues. this is from a forthcoming dvd. i wish i wish i could see them play live…

oh, and [...]]]> i can feel an actual post coming on… or at least an update. still crazy busy tho, so might take a few days. in the meantime, more videos.

this recently hurt my brain:

meanwhile, my love affair with cardiacs continues. this is from a forthcoming dvd. i wish i wish i could see them play live…

oh, and have you seen this classic? ‘hocus pocus’ by focus, live in 1973:

This is one of the loveliest things ever. I need to listen to more Jonathan Richman…

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Ah, the beauty and brilliance of Severed Heads. This work means more to me than I can explain. It’s in my blood.

Tom Ellard’s description:

(By request) This 1985 video was created in [...]]]> I know this blog is becoming little more than a YouTube feed, but I just have to share this old favourite which recently appeared there:

Ah, the beauty and brilliance of Severed Heads. This work means more to me than I can explain. It’s in my blood.

Tom Ellard’s description:

(By request) This 1985 video was created in real time as a video ‘jam’ or improvisation. It features a preacher scratched by Ian Andrews on betacam tape, fed through Fairlight CVI and analogue video synthesiser.

The CVI signal is notable for not filling the whole screen (it had a resolution of 256 squared) and introducing a delay that causes the signal to shift to the right.

I’m supposed to be at an Ian Andrews exhibition opening right now, but I crashed my bike today, so am staying home to lick my wounds and hopefully catch up with some overdue writing.

I love the Internet.

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 [...]]]>

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

An explanation.

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 [...]]]> 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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AUDIOVISUAL ARTIST FEATURE _______________________________________________________ :: :: :: :: 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 [...]]]>

Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 2

AUDIOVISUAL ARTIST FEATURE
_______________________________________________________
:: :: :: :: 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
____________________________________
:: :: :: :: 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
______________________________
:: :: :: :: 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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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 [...]]]>

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.

My new favourite band, rather than favourite new band. I first heard Cardiacs just a few months ago, but they’ve been active for 30 years! It seems that they have a cult following but are otherwise basically unknown, even to lovers of unusual music. These guys should have been pop stars, but their vision is [...]]]>

My new favourite band, rather than favourite new band. I first heard Cardiacs just a few months ago, but they’ve been active for 30 years! It seems that they have a cult following but are otherwise basically unknown, even to lovers of unusual music. These guys should have been pop stars, but their vision is just too eccentric. They release music on their own label, the Alphabet Business Concern, and are pretty much outsiders from the music industry.

Cardiacs make some of the most amazingly brilliant music I’ve ever heard, overflowing with energy and ideas. They even have their own musical genre: pronk: prog punk. The band prefers ‘psychedelic’. To those descriptions one could add metal, jazz, ska, music hall, classical, britpop, etc. As for comparisons with other artists, imagine a collage of fragments of Wire, John Zorn/Naked City, XTC, Madness, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Sparks, Bonzo Dog Band, early Genesis, Split Enz, King Crimson, Devo, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Gentle Giant, Danielson, the Residents, Jim Thirlwell, Syd Barrett, Pixies, Talk Talk, Queen and Mr Bungle. Apparently they are favourites of and an influence on Blur, Radiohead, the aforementioned Mr Bungle, and no doubt many other musicians in the know.

Here’s some classic 80s Cardiacs:

How could anyone not love this band? They’re so adorable! Here’s a live vid from their stripped down, four piece, 1990s incarnation (the last minute or so is especially killer). And luckily for us there’s lots more at YouTube.

As for albums, a good starting point would be 1995’s ‘Sing to God’ – a double album (also released as two separate albums) which is brilliant from start to finish, and is also one of their most ‘rocking’ releases. Finding their recordings can be difficult, but their website has CDs for sale (although some are out of print) as well as several mp3s available for download.

If you’re a music lover, do yourself a favour and check these guys out. Then recommend them to your friends. Cardiacs deserve to be much better known. They’re a musical treasure.

By Adam Buxton of Adam and Joe. The Adam & Joe XFM Podcast is essential listening.

This Is Not Art is on in Newcastle this weekend. It’s my favourite Australian festival – if you’ve never been, you should check it out. I’ll be doing a couple of talks and a couple of performances.