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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
+ 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
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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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We were looking at some YouTube vids in my first year Media Arts class today. Afterwards, one of the students sent me a link to her music videos, and I was blown away! Emma Russack has a dark, hypnotic folk style, along the lines of Marissa Nadler, Gillian Welch and Smog. Here’s her cover of Black Sabbath’s ‘Planet Caravan’:
Go to Emma’s YouTube and MySpace pages for more great music.
Thanks to Christian for introducing me to YouTube Poop. It reminds me of the kinds of collages I’ve made when starting to play with a technology: cassette pause button edits in the 80s, samplers in the early 90s, hard disk editing and granular synthesis in the late 90s. Basically having fun, trying things out, and exploring rhythm, texture and mood in a more or less musical way, but with little regard for convention. Taking whatever happened to be on TV or radio and sculpting it into something resonant.
Here’s a little video I made in 2003, shortly after getting my hands on Sonic Foundry Vegas (now Sony Vegas). It uses a bunch of videos I’d collected from the web (mostly from Stileproject) but isn’t all that different from the video collages I made back in 1993 when I first got access to a SVHS edit suite.
It’s called Four Words by Time Being and appears on the Section Media compilation VIVA [section] which is being rereleased by Alias Frequencies [preview].
I’m currently writing a book chapter on how the now-ubiquitous ‘mash-up’ (in web, video, music, etc) came from the same musical underground that gave us ‘culture jamming’ ie the Evolution Control Committee, Negativland, John Oswald. I’m also looking at relationships between collage, granular synthesis and cultural granularity.
It will probably become part of my dissertation, and may be the kick start that I need, as I’m at that awkward stage of having to redefine the paramaters of my research. For example, I’m probably not going to go ahead with the wiki site that I’d planned, as the Web2.0 landscape is developing too rapidly and I don’t want to make something that will be redundant. It may be more useful to concentrate on analyzing and ‘mashing up’ existing (and emerging) sites, as well as being involved in the development of such sites, as I am with the ABC’s ‘Pool’ project. 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.
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.
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.
