Election Party
With Residents Blake & Tig
Free entry
10pm

Afrobeat, Funky soul and Afrodub.
With:
future roots
manchild
mr fish
heptune

Free entry
From 8pm

Residents Blake & Tig with guest Dj ‘O’

Free entry

from 10pm

Agonhymn + Psychward Cult + Rotteur + dj Bonnie Mercer

+ AGONHYMN
Liam Brewer – drums
Dav Byrne – strings and throx
Agonhymn are a sludged-out power duo who marry big jazz chords and extreme downtuning to ‘’stretched-time” doom rhythms. Incorporating elements of black metal, droner post-rock, stoned fuzz and flat out crushing doom…

http://www.myspace.com/agonhymn

+ PSYCHWARD CULT
The Psych Ward Cult are a grim-junk-noise-improv group hatched from the worlds of new noise, grindcore and hardcore and drawing members from groups such as Pathetic Human, The Kill, Occult Blood, and Chrome Dome.
The lineup for this performance features:
Shaun South – synth / delay
Nik Kennedy – pedals / electronics
Tom Miller – junk / guitar
Bryce Sweatman – drums

+ROTTEUR
Cold, desolate soundscapes, haunted by droning machinery and sparse abstracted electronics.

http://www.myspace.com/rotteur

+ dj BONNIE DOOM aka BONNIE MERCER between the sets!

$10 (full) + $5 (conc)

http://www.myspace.com/stuttermelb

With Residents Blake & Tig

Free Entry

From 10pm

A Regular night of mixed beats from all around the globe.

Featuring Hip-Hop, Glitch, Dub-Step and Party Bangers.

Hosted By DJ Sizzle

AND……

Special Guest VJ Jason of Broken Pixel Productions will be playing 3D Visual all night.

3D Glasses supplied!!

www.myspace.com/deejaysizzle

www.brokenpixelproductions.com

From 8pm

Free Entry

Golden Fur / True Radical Miracle + Oren Ambarchi / Joe Talia + 12 Dog Cycle + Frau Troffea

http://www.myspace.com/12dogcycle

http://www.myspace.com/joetalia

http://www.myspace.com/45213783

http://www.myspace.com/trueradicalmiracle

http://www.myspace.com/goldenfur

$5/$10

From 7:30

Rafael Anton Irisarri (U.S.) + Marco Fusinato/Sean Baxter + Dick Threats + dj Robbie Avenaim

Read more: http://events.myspace.com/Event/6623009/Rafael-Anton-Irisarri-US–Marco -FusinatoSean-Baxter–Dick-Threats–dj-Robbie-Avenaim#ixzz0wkdULYFs

With by  Mzrizk, JPS, Dj Peril, Aux-One

Free Entry

From 8pm

Party On Bitches!

Saturdays at Horse Bazaar

salvation through music and close quarters hip-shaking

Dj’s Blake, Tig & DJ ‘O’

From 10pm

Free Entry

++ BUGGATRONIC:
Daniel Buess: Percussion, Electronics
James Hullick: No input mixing desks, Machines

The Swiss/ Australian duo that is Buggatronic started in 2009 when  Daniel Buess and James Hullick joined forces in a cyclonic collision of sound. There is the signature of industrial noise in Buggatronic, but there is also a love of tightly timed formal design and aural  choreography in the work. Daniel Buess brings his percussion background to the duo, as well as an array of electronic gadgetry and
memories of space rock out convulsions. James Hullick meets Buess head on with specially built robotic music machines and the grind of no-input mixing desks. Amidst the showers of amplified dynamism and hard walls of sound, Buggatronic also capture the delicate moments. And then the cochlea tsunami washes it all away.
Buggatronic is urban life amplified for the 21st century.

+ HOLY BONER – Reprising their collab from a couple of years ago, the deranged experimental noisecore of Holy Boner (Brad Smith: drums, Nik Kennedy: voice/fx) meets the mind-bending psychedelic tinnitus of The Unaustralians (Ein: shred, Aus: butchery) – UnHolyAustralianBoners!!! Crikey!!!

VS

UNAUSTRALIANS – “We chose this name in order to increase our chances of getting an arts grant.”

Genre: Psychedelic Grindcore

UnAustralians represent the extremely brutal end of improvised music in Australia.

UA features a wailing banshee, a drum machine set to over 300bpm and a possessed 20th century shredder guitarist. All songs and are delivered in the same way a machine stamps out licence plates.

Recordings available:  EIN AUS (12” LP)  2006

YEAR OF THE WHITE VAN  (CDR)  2007

RITUALS OF THE CAPTURED MOMENT (DVD)

WINTER MAGIC (DVD) 2006

UNUAUSTRALIANS (DVD) 2006

Contact: unaustralians@ventinggallery.com

+     Cray VS Cleaninglady – A steaming mound of Alto Sax Venom and Analogue Synth Brutality…

Sabbatical Presents:

In Stutter’s first “4 Sets With…” for the 2010 series, iconic Melbourne street drummer, Victor Lancaster, appears in collaboration with some of Melbourne’s finest avant-improvisers. Armed with fiery vocal abstraction and a feline companion, Earl Stuart (from the legendary outsider Hip Hop collective, Curse Ov Dialect),  joins Vic for a special collaboration of beats and blurts. Followed by a percussion duo of absurd gravitas, featuring Victor with internationally renowned avant schlagwerker, Sean Baxter. Victor will then be joined by MaxMSP/real-time processing genius, Marco Cher-Gibard for a performance where the street-drummer sounds are twisted and transformed before your very ears. Capping it all off, a keenly anticipated collaboration between Victor and radical sonic tricksters, Bum Creek, for a wildly transcendental, dada-inspired sound performance in the musique brut tradition.

* Victor Lancaster (genius) with Bum Creek, featuring: Sam Karmel (multiple sound devices), Trev Clay (multiple sound devices) and Tarquin Manek (multiple sound devices)
* Victor Lancaster (genius) with Marco Cher-Gibard (laptop processing)
* Victor Lancaster (genius) with Sean Baxter (drumkit and junk)
* Victor Lancaster (genius) with Earl Stuart (raps) and Tripod AKA Chicken the Cat (contact mic purrs and growls)

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
8:30pm
$10 (full) / $5 (conc)
Stutter@Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Links:
Stutter: http://www.myspace.com/stuttermelb
Victor Lancaster: http://www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/stories/s856881.htm
Earl Stuart: http://www.myspace.com/atarungi
Sean Baxter: http://www.myspace.com/seanbaxterimprov
Marco Cher-Gibard: http://www.myspace.com/marcochergibard
Bum Creek: http://www.myspace.com/bumcreek

This week- Mr Fish & special guests

8pm

Free Entry

Plug N Play’s Jean Poole will be projecting split-screen visual goodness on Horse Bazaar’s panoramic walls (see below)
for a 10.30pm start

but firstD
.J’s MzRizk, TomTom and more will be looking after the Aural side of things!

Free Entry

After Tea!

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Broken Pixel aka Jayson Haebich – ’spacey dubstep + interactive visuals
( control the visuals via laser pointer! )
+ Triple Screen experiments by Jean Poole

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||

/Broken Pixel is Jayson Haebich, a musician, artist and programmer
who mashes up spacey dubstep beats with interactive visuals in which
the audience can interact with the live performance using laser pointers,
video cameras and tracking software which aims to blur the distinction
between performer and audience
and to immerse the crowd in a total audio visual environment./

http://soundcloud.com/brokenpixel

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Followed by choons + triple screen experiments by Jean Poole.

more : http://pnp.skynoise.net/

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||

BRUCE RUSSELL (NZ) + ROBIN FOX + IVAN LISYAK + BEN BYRNE + FRANCIS PLAGNE + DJ THEMBI SODDELL

This Thursday join Duotone’s Sam Brownie and Jemma Woolmore as they experiment with the lush panoramic and surround sound capabilites of Horse Bazaar. The Duotone experience focuses on creating lush ambient spaces through the intersection of live moving image and minimal electronica. Flowing effortlessly through a range of electronic genres, Duotone creates new pathways to experience contemporary screen and audio culture. Check out the links below see and hear more from Duotone.

Mix link

Video link

Website

Miha Ciglar is an audio engineer and sound artist, working at the intersection of art and technology. In 2009 he obtained his MSc degree at the Institute for Electronic Music (IEM) – www.iem.at. Since 2001 he has performed his own compositions for various acoustic instruments, electro-acoustical performances, interactive dance performances, computer music and audiovisual installations at many international arts festivals.

Tempest Recordings is proud to present Between Earth & Sky @ Horse Bazaar, 397 Lt Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.

Hailing from Bath,UK, Modified is the breaks/ dub project of Corin Trembath known for his output on Hard Hands, Mosaic, Slalom (UK) and Stickman (Canada), in addition to our own Tempest Recordings, Modified will be previewing his forthcoming releases in this his first Aussie appearance & only Melbourne show.
Also, we’ll be launching the new single from The Omm Squad, “Geeza” in their first live appearance for 5 years. The single features exclusive tracks and will be available on the night for a mere $5.00.
Rounding out the bill will be our regulars UK ex-pat, Stickleback and arch-melbournian Garagee spinning fresh breaks, downtempo, dub & worldtronica.

Entry is free and the night kicks off at 8pm.

This is the first ever official WOMADelaide Heat-Up Party in Melbourne, presenting the vibe of Australia’s Number 1 global festival with DJs, visual explosions, ticket and CD give-aways and much much more.

Saca La Mois DJ!! is representing Latin sounds, including Ojos de Brujo (Spain) and Nortec Collective (Mexico), who are both on the 2010 WOMADelaide line-up. Beyond these seminal artists’ releases, I’ll be spinning a whole context of music coming out of Barcelona, Andalucia and Tijuana…

Showcasing giants and exciting newcomers of African music on this year’s line-up is Mr Fish, one of the world’s top Afro-DJs. Mr Fish’s DJ set will include Ethiopiques (Ethiopia/France), Dub Colossus (Ethiopia/UK) and Melbourne’s massive 19-piece The Public Opinion Afrobeat Orchestra, who are all set to be highlights at this year’s festival in Adelaide.
Russian criminals Vulgargrad are also playing WOMADelaide 2010, and band member Andrew Tanner is making a rare appearance as DJ Vulgar Boatman, playing us from his extensive collection of Russian ballads and oompah-thumpers that inspired the formation of Vulgargrad.
Systa bb brings the Easter European goodness of Besh o droM, Babylon Circus, Nickodemus and others to the dancefloor.
There will be plenty of ticket and CD giveaways and this will be your first chance to buy 2010 festival merchandise. The newly-released Sounds of the Planet 2010 compilation CD will also be available on the night.

Get there early for doco film screening, early bird gifts and to avoid disappointment of not fitting in this intimate venue…

Free Entry

FREE DOWNLOAD

americas vol. 1 mixtape by Moses Iten a.k.a. Saca La Mois DJ!!

download the best from the Americas off the dancefloor…this is what I’m listening to at home:

Plug N Play Goes Panoramic

On the second Thursday of every month @ Horse Bazaar, Plug N Play will be curating a range of screen imagery for ‘The Night Porter’, a night dedicated to all things visual. This will include short films, experimental animations, live performances, workshops, digital illustrations, live net collaborations and other visual games that exploit the long wrap around screen at Horse Bazaar.

First Up?
An eclectic highlight reel of Russian animations and short films from a new online Russian portal ( cyberbrothers.tv ), as selected by Ben Sheppee from the Light Rhythm Visuals audiovisual label ( lightrhythmvisuals.com/sheppee ).

Optical animations by Davidope ( davidope.com )

Panoramic pixels, ambient music + sound effects library selections by Jean Poole.

Stickleback EP launch – Beats, dub, chill and live electronica

A Tempest Recordings Event – EP launch for Stickleback with CD’s available on the night.
Artists playing:
Stickleback (Tempest, Slalom, Yellow Sunshine Explosion)
Rip Van Hippy (Tempest, Psy-Harmonics)
Garagee (Tempest)
Red Eye Express (Tempest, Cosmicleaf, C.U.T. Music)

Free

Stutter Presents:
Streifenjunko (NO) + Joe Talia + Marco Cher Gibard

+ OLLIE BOWN, one half of UK freetronica experimentalist duo Icarus (Output, Leaf, Temporary Residence, Rump), will play a 4 channel AV laptop mashup polyrhythmically diffusing samples of philharmonic orchestras, metal percussion and jazz drums, with photographic images plundered by UK artist Brittski (UK / Germany).

+ SAMUEL DUNSCOMBE, of Golden Fur and Forth Impact, presents his first solo laptop set. Sam uses MaxMSP to morph, pervert, and destroy real world phenomena to take you on a journey to the darkest regions of your skull. Quiet anxiety, slow death, and screeching white fear collide with the obscene remnants of what was once beautiful.

+ AXXIMILATION – The possessed duo forged at the bottom of a black riverbed, is droney, Metal noise, riot bitch, death core, grime sludge, brown panther, girl metal hack, drill and bass, brain smash of feedback….and audio abuse.

+ DJ MONTENEGRO (of The Sabbatical Caddish DJs) between the sets!

hercel (Japan) Anna Zaradny (Poland) LVSXY (Berlin) John Rose
Tickets $15/10 at the door
Presented by Stutter
Melbourne may be the world’s sport capital, but it’s nights like this 16th of December gig at Horse Bazaar that retain our faith in the arts. What a beautiful meeting of the minds! Godfather of all things sonic, experimental and Australian Jon Rose, recent Aussie expats and everyone’s favourite married-and-funkin’, improv-festival-organisin’ couple Clayton Thomas and Clare Cooper as their Prince-worshippin’ duo LVSXY, Polish laptop siren Anna Zaradny and Japanese dealers of power electronic brutality hercel. Something for everyone, everything for everyone!

The launch of the Original motion picture soundtrack of MARINETTI.  A feature length Experimental film made in Sydney by Albie Thoms in 1969.  Taking place on 9th of December at Horse Bazaar, presented by Stutter and Round Table, Round and Round and Sunshine & Grease.

Experience Experimental films from the UBU catalogue, including Marinetti with a live score performed by (in no particular order), Bum Creek, Robbie Avenaim/Nik Kennedy/Marco Fusinato trio, The Charles Ives Singers, Dave Brown + DJ’s Downpat, Wolfenbrau, Xonk, Votary.

From the pen of Jim Knox….

Albie Thoms’ Marinetti was the culmination of the synthetic environments that the UBU group had pioneered in Australia; festive public ‘happenings’ that combined the energy and volume of creative rock and jazz with the mesmeric effect of multi-dimensional lightshows. Another kind of culmination: Marinetti records most of the principal collaborators in the UBU film group, like Aggy Read and the Perrys. Uniquely valuable as a document of Australia’s late 1960s counter-culture, the soundtrack provides the best indication of the unrestrained liberty that bands like Tully and the John Sangster Underground band – some of whose members perform on this recording – were famously achieving in their improvisations of the period.

This is the sound of the acid-stained Down Underground. Led by the irrepressibly eccentric multi-instrumentalist, John Sangster, the sextet of players included veterans of Sydney psych ensembles Tully and the Nutwood Rug Band, as well as accomplished sidemen from the Don Burrows and Bernie McGann groups. By the time they improvised the soundtrack recording to a screening of the film, guitarist Michael Barnes was performing alongside Sangster for the Harry M Miller production of Hair. Tully mainstay, Rick Lockwood, can be heard on flute, sax, and a raucously untutored violin. New Zealand expatriate, Dave McRae, would further explore the sound of organ enhanced by outboard effects in his later work with UK jazz-prog group, Nucleus, and Daevid Allen’s post-Soft Machine Matching Mole; for several years he was musical director for British comedy series, The Goodies. Drummer, Alan Turnbull, was a member of the classic Burrows quartet. George Thompson, on bass, would record again with Sangster in support of Sister Janet Mead’s landmark album of inspirational christian pop.

The inital tone of the soundtrack is idyllic in its gentle lyricism, and the naive candour of overheard conversation. Across the next 80 minutes Harry Medax builds the mix – up to 6 additional tracks woven over and around the musicians – towards a crescendo of cacophonous simultaneity… Birdsong and the barking of dogs collide with fragmented needle-drops of The Doors and The Beatles. There are whispered reassurances, anguished shouts, and the wholesale reprise of Thoms and Gerry Dupal’s musique concrete composition, De Moon Service, originally realised as accompaniment to sculptor (and computroid, from ABC TV’s SciFi series, Interpretaris) Gordon Mutch’s film, Hallucinagenia. A moment of Ravel’s Bolero, start of reel 3, wryly harkens to one of Thoms’ earliest shorts.

Beyond the threshold of conscious perception, Thoms launches his audience into a maelstrom of sound and vision. The group delirium unspooling in the dark is consistent with his notion of a ‘cinema of cruelty’: the resort to a course of homeopathic madness prescribed by Antonin Artaud. The film certainly has people; ‘characters’ even, and aplenty – but no actual characters as such. Rather than something as facile as telling a story, the film is a distilled concentrate of lysergic impression, a sacrament of celluloid metaphysics.

CUMBIATEQUE presents FESTA DO EXTERIOR…
On Saturday 5 December Cumbiateque is moving far, far, far away from cumbia…to Brazil.  Guest DJ Discotecadélioador (a.k.a. Helio Leonardo) will play música estranha para gente esquisita: high-tech sounds from the Amazon; muddy beats from the dry Northeast; children party anthems grown-ups (from all classes) like to groove to in the South and all the sexy stuff you haven’t heard but will try to dance to.  DJ Zaibatsu (a.k.a. Simon Winkler of 3RRR) was one of the first in Melbourne to push the baile funk sound, and continues to surprise with rediscovered classics and futurist Brazilesque grooves.  Resident saca la mois DJ!! is delving deeply into his Brazilian collection.  Also catch a short doco on the scene of Recife and much much much more…

free entry
from 10pm

Flutter Lyon, Psuche, Owl + Moth, Dj’s Tig & Blake

www.myspace.com/flutterlyon
www.myspace.com/oscar39spuche
www.myspace.com/owlmoth
www.twobrightlakes.com

$8 on the door

Marco Fusinato is guest programming Stutter for the month of November.

In the last installment of HATRED OF FANTASTIC, this week will feature:

JUSTIN K FULLER (mum smokes, ZOND) solo performance

ABSOLUTEN CALFEUTRAIL - The Absoluten Calfeutrail project is focused principally on the suggestion of isolated settings, associated trepidation and disquieting states produced by festering anxieties. The initial drive for this undertaking was drawn in 2005 from the stimulation provided by Moebius’ (Jean Giraud) 1977 graphic work of the same name, but has since evolved to draw in inspiration from a range of personal fixations.

FORTH IMPACT! – Forth Impact! (alexander garsden: acoustic guitar, samuel dunscombe: laptop) 21st century bush poetry, heralding the Apoc-calypso through ext. technique and Max MSP. Filth and Bilge and Hell.

6pm – 9pm Live Music

DEAD BOOMERS
VAINAMOINEN
and
MITCHELL BRENNAN & LACHLAN GALE

Marco Fusinato is guest programming Stutter for the month of November.

In this 3rd installment of HATRED OF FANTASTIC, this week will feature:

* xNoBBQx

”So what exactly is the difference between an xNoBBQx recording and a couple of 14 year olds bashing instruments in the garage with record pressed down on one of their mum’s old tape recorders? Probably not a whole lot, actually, but I get the feeling that’s precisely the point.” (Cyclic Defrost)
After recent tours of Europe and New Zealand and the Skewer 10” released on Manchester label Golden Lab, xNoBarbequeX venture south of the border for the first time in 2009. Trainspotters will note that they also have released a record on US label Siltbreeze.

* THE DONKEY’S TAIL Vs CHARLES IVES SINGERS

The Charles Ives Singers and the Donkey’s Tail collide their homemade and regular musical instruments to blurt and blast a cacophony of noises for your sonic and visual pleasure.

Driven along by sonic variation, agitation and adhocism, both groups bring improv and abstraction to their version of free noise.

The CIS are Victor Meertens, Alexis Ensore and David Palliser.

Tonight’s version of the DT are John Nixon, John Bartley, Dylan Martorell, Merryn Lloyd, Warren Taylor and David Palliser

* MV

Maya-Victoria London – Melbourne transplant
Low end / low life tape junk
ex member Leopard Leg / Polly Shang Kuan Band
Previous collabs with John Wiese – Yellow Swans

Melbourne’s own Mind Heart Media presents a night of sonic mash ups at Horse Bazaar, Thursday November 12 from 8pm. Featuring the exotic electronic folk hop of the Kinship, fresh from an 8 date tour of WA, Ballarat’s underground-fuzz wunderkids Pioneers of Good Science and pyschedelic folk adventureer Jshwa, this will be an night even Hendrix would reincarnate for. Tix from 5 bucks. Remember it’s all about the Cosmos.

DJ El Patron (a.k.a. Santiago Villamizar) is an accomplished DJ, musician and designer and is bringing us a rare listen into his collection of vintage vinyl classics plus the latest beats from his home city Bogota. If it’s Colombian and makes you dance – El Patron will play it. More Colombian musical royalty living right here in Melbourne – its time for you to hear DJ El Patron!

DJ Nacondo is making a solo DJ-appearance whilst his partner from the sound-system Sonidero Esperanza is back home in Mexico City for a stint of collecting even more cumbias. Last time they appeared at Horse Bazaar, mezcals were sold out and all the scorpions eaten. Don’t forget yourself on the tropical dancefloor for too long, as DJ Nacondo plays a soundtrack that makes mullets grow faster.

Resident and host saca la mois DJ!! (a.k.a. Moses Iten) still hasn’t been able to DJ all the new cumbias collected whilst on tour in Europe in July/August. Also new unreleased dancefloor fillers freshly arrived via email from fellow cumbia producers like Cero39 (Bogota), The Peronists (La Plata) and Silvestre Herrera (Buenos Aires). You heard it at Cumbiateque first!

Marco Fusinato is guest programming Stutter for the month of November.

In the 2nd installment of HATRED OF FANTASTIC, this week will feature:

OHYMACH

-Little is known about Ohymach’s early life or family background. They claim to have lived in France ”a long time”, grown up in New Orleans, and at some point moved to San Francisco, where they were employed at a hospital. They now prefer to make it known that they are American, and claim to be fluent ”in many languages”.
-Ohymach study psychology as a ”hobby”.
-Ohymach were interested in becoming a rock star before turning to acting. They were trained in acting at the American Conservatory Theater, Laney College and the Jean Shelton Actors Lab.
-Their first album was a five minute-long piece about which very little is known.
-Ohymach’s next album ”will be also basketball, you’ll be surprised too.”
-Lisa is tearing Ohymach apart.

MARCO FUSINATO

Marco Fusinato unleashes tsunamis of ecstatic free noise, generated by overdriven deracinated electronic guitar detritus.

OREN AMBARCHI/ROBBIE AVENAIM

Just back from a major European tour a rare performance by the dynamic duo, Oren Ambarchi on guitar and Robbie Avenaim on motorized drums. Enough said.

Marco Fusinato programs Stutter
HATRED OF FANTASTIC

This week will feature:

SEAN BAXTER – Sean Baxter is an Australian improviser interested in extreme music forms. He focuses on the use of extended techniques applied to the conventional drum-kit, utilising an arsenal of metallic junk and other percussive detritus. His performance aesthetic evokes a variety of sonic practices, ranging from extreme metal and punishing noise to free jazz and Modernist abstraction. He performs regularly with the internationally renowned Pateras/Baxter/Brown trio, the brutal free-jazz-grind quartet, Embers, and in frequent ad hoc collaborative and solo incarnations.

KRYSTOFFKRVSTOFFISTON ist a grey cloud of hails and reign, raw ritual ambient mythanthropic bleak black arts, featuring members of various hoards. Kvlt ambivalance.

THE PSYCHWARD CULT  expansive junk collective featuring: Shaun South, Tom Miller, Tara Green, Bryce Sweatman, Liam Haryono, Nik Kennedy and Dan Brady

ROHAN REBEIRO (My Disco) – Drum machine and samples. Repetitive medium slow motion.

I.n0jaQ (AU/JP) – On a break from his travels around the world on a DIY postman’s scooter (http://faster-than-walking.com/) – I.n0jaQ has spent the last 10 years on the Osaka experimental noise scene. Infamous for his incorporation of art and DIY technologies – his works including dancing robots, circuit board canvases to solar powered sound generating machines. This man would rule the world if he were in a Mad Max movie!!

SHE CAMEL OF GOD – Elise Bishop (ON, Elise&Jem, BadCop BadCop, Aux Assembly) + Paul Hirst (The Ashvins, Rake) – Since 1995, these New Zealand veterans of bass noise make music for the hungover or on-edge, or those that like their organs jostled.

dj SAIGON SAUSAGE – Black silk. No dice.

JIM DENLEY (NSW) – alto saxophone, flutes and electronics. / KIM MYHR (NO) – acoustic guitar and simple mechanics.

http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/denley-jim

http://www.myspace.com/kimmyhrmusic

JAMES RUSHFORD – prepared violas, autoharp. / JOE TALIA – spring reverb tank, metal objects.

http://www.myspace.com/jamesrushfordjoetalia

EVELYN MORRIS – drumkit / ROD COOPER – not made in China

http://www.myspace.com/trueradicalmiracle

http://www.myspace.com/ovalyn

DJ ARSECRACK aka SEAN BAXTER between the acts!

RiP: A Remix Manifesto

To help Launch the Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice launch its latest campaign: En Masse, we are screening the exciting new documentary on remix culture: RiP: A remix manifesto.

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film features mash-up musician Girl Talk, Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow.

Watch the trailer at: http://blip.tv/file/1329162

Download the flyer at: http://democracyandjustice.org.au/images/enmasseflyer.pdf

When: Tuesday 20th October at 7:30 pm
Where: Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Cost: A very reasonable $10 / $5

About our new campaign, En Masse:

The Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice’s En Masse Campaign has three main aims. To Rethink Copyright in our digital age; to Reclaim culture by encouraging people to step outside the current intellectual property regime; and to provide the tools to Redo cultural outputs, remixing them into something new.

THE SMS INTERACTIVE MUSIC PROJECT

The SMS-Interactive Music (SIM) Project brings together a world class group of musicians and technicians to develop an improvised collaborative performance technique. This technique involves improvised musical performance, technology and the audience as co-collaborators.

By creatively subverting readily available computer hardware and mobile phone technology, matched with the skills of our musicians, we will bridge the divide between audience and performers. Our goal is to facilitate an open interaction that has a high level of musicianship, thereby creating a new musical experience.

Concept – Fred Rodrigues
Max MSP Wiz – Claire Herbert
Software Writer – Ankur Badwhar

Performers – Hirofumi Uchino AKA Defektro (self-made instruments), Kusum Normoyle (voice, electronics), Adrian Klumpes (keys, electronics), Abel Cross (bass, electronics), and the audience!

Find out more at: sims-interactive.com

Also performing on the evening will be::

SCOTT TINKLER (trumpet) / FINN RYAN (drums)

DEFEKTRO

KUSUM NORMOYLE dj’ing between the acts!!

The name Krazie Kraze might conjure up thoughts of some wannabe gangsta rapper making the same old music
you’ve heard a thousand times before. It appears however, that Krazie Kraze is quite the opposite:
Krazie Kraze is the digital misfit…
Call it electronic
Call it hip hop
Call it “Digital Hardcore Pop”. Call it whatever you want. The Krazie one just calls it “music”.
Taking influences from all sorts of styles of music from mellow to harsh, and influences visually from various arts and
cultures, Krazie Kraze is the epitome of the current mish-mash cross-culture world we live in today. He presents a
world from either now, the future or somewhere in fantasy. Krazie might only be one man, but he has a few tricks up
his sleeve. When you see the digital misfit live, you see a real performance; full of energy from start to finish. Shoe
gazing is banned in this sector.
Screams, rapping, spoken words, sung lyrics, jumping, flying microphone chords, lights, video projections and
streaming live security cameras. This is an electro punk who has dynamics. Like a soundtrack to a film, one minute
could be quiet and reflective; the next minute, loud and in your face. It juxtaposes sound and emotion and takes you
along for a journey past the songs themselves.

< about We Can Not Ever Give In >
Krazie Kraze fights back with his new electro punk single, ‘We Can Not Ever Give In” from the forthcoming debut
album due in early 2010. With distorted guitar-like synths, a fat bouncing bassline, constant drum smashing and a
determined energy blast of vocals, the single delivers an electronic song with a whole lotta punk attitude. Also
featuring on the physical release of the single are remixes of Krazie Kraze’s previous EP by producers including The
Eyelid Picture Show, Eggchan, Tristan Hewitt and Loftee Beats. A limited edition run of 100 CDs will be available at
Krazie Kraze launch events in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne in September/October 2009, including a digital PDF
booklet with lyrics and photos, wallpapers and mp3 version of the single/Remix EP.

The new single and ‘… Is Lost’ EP are available to download for free @ www.kraziekraze.com

“… an unpredictable mix of electro, hip hop and punk attitude, … Krazie has always pushed the boundaries and
conventions of electronic music. It’s a mix of de-Sexed Johnny Rotten, amphetamine-infected Depeche Mode and
Atari Teenage Riot electro savagery… that should be welcomed by those hoping for a more creative Perth.”
Krazie Kraze … Is Lost EP – Drum Media Review – December 2008

PUMICE (NZ) – ”Stefan and Sugar Jon went to Whangamata for new years 1990/1991 telling their parents that they were getting a ride with friend Shelley’s uncle but really they hitchiked. Picked up in Thames by a woman in a horse truck who only picked them up cos she thought they were girls. When the truck went round the narrow bendy hilltop roads the horse would kick the side and send the truck veering off into thick oncoming holiday traffic. After a few days in Whangamata it became apparent that Jon and Stefan’s mothers had talked and worked out the lies. Jon called his mum for a growling and when he got off the phone Stefan said they should form a band called Pumice….. ” – Stefan Neville

There is an idea of New Zealand pop music that isn’t pop music at all: Pin Group, Alastair Galbraith, Peter Jeffries and Antony Milton. Now, enters Stefan Neville, aka Pumice, and the most broken down, lo-fi approach to pop yet! One man band compositions and variations for small silver guitar, intercoms, endless cassette, chord organ, spring reverb, buzzbox, drums and voice. The struggle between sinking and swimming, swallowing water and going to the toilet either way since 1991.

OREN AMBARCHI/ROB MAYSON/MATT ‘SKITZ’ SANDERS – A head-on collision of ferocious and blisteringly brutal drumming from Matt ‘Skitz’ Sanders with super heavy low end psychedelics from Oren Ambarchi and Rob Mayson.

GILLES AUBRY (CH / DE) – Gilles Aubry is a Swiss sound artist, composer & musician. He uses field recordings, computer programming, surround sound, hacked electronics and improvisation to create live performances, sound installations, CD and radio pieces. His work is informed by personal investigations on formal, perceptual and anthropological aspects of sound production and reception, including auditory perception, space representation, site specificity, cultural accoustics and streams of information. Gilles Aubry has been involved in numerous collaborations with international artists throughout Europe, USA, Russia, Asia and the Middle East since 1995.

CANDLESNUFFER / ALEX GARSDEN / DENNIS SANTIAGO – The first time performance for this trio of some of Melbourne’s finest Avant – Improv guitarists!

dj DOWNPAT between the acts!

David Palliser ”Boiled Fog” CD launch featuring:
DAVID PALLISER – alto sax, delay and loops, junk. Such great tracks as ”Troubled Village Doorways”
and ”Particle Lump” will be typically strangulated in his broken barn style.
—————————————————————————————————————————————
THE CHARLES IVES SINGERS and THE DONKEY’S TAIL – quartet – with Victor Meertens, Alexis Ensor,
John Nixon, Warren Taylor
THERE WILL BE NO DISCUSSION…ONLY THE NOISE OF THE TEARING UP OF ALL ART BUSINESS.
—————————————————————————————————————————————
A.WALLACE and TOM HALL (Melb) – A fleshy movement of vibrating strings and/or electronic amateur
hour harsh noise and/or minimalist acoustic bong holidays.
—————————————————————————————————————————————

This Wednesday the 26th of August @ Stutter…

This week for Stutter’s occasional series that focuses on a specific performer in 3 different contexts, Sydney double bassist, RORY BROWN, a powerhouse of both density and subtlety features in 3 unique collaborations:

* ROBBIE AVENAIM (WOG / What Is Music? / SEAN BAXTER (Pateras/Baxter/Brown / Embers)/ BRAD SMITH (Holy Boner / Super Fun Happy Slide) / JAY JONES (The Kill / Fuck…I’m Dead) – 4 x drums / NIK KENNEDY (The Kill / Super Fun Happy Slide / Holy Boner / Psychward Cult / RCKTSRGRY) – bass guitar / RORY BROWN – dbl bass

* ROHAN REBEIRO (My Disco) – drums / MAX KOHANE (Agents of Abhorrence / PIVIXKI / Brain Children / Crumbs) – drums / RODGER (C.U.S.W / Butchers Harem) – vocals / RORY BROWN – dbl bass

*

CHRIS NYLSTOCK (Venting Gallery / Unaustralians – broken guitar / ROSALIND HALL – sax / RORY BROWN – dbl bass

@ Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne

8:30pm start.
$10 (full) + $5 (conc)

Click here for Stutter Myspazz

NOMEX (UK / NZ) + ANTHEA CADDY / THEMBI SODDELL + XIAN + OPTICAL EYES + dj MR NATHAN GRAY

+ NOMEX(UK/NZ) – Nomex is the pseudonym of Paul Kidd, under which he has been performing and releasing audio and video works for many years. Nomex has performed in many diverse locations around the world, from the ICA in London to the squatted galleries of East Berlin, from huge outdoor festivals in France to the trash bars of Milwaukee, from the Red Factory in Switzerland to the Link in Bologna, from the Parisian catacombs to the established art spaces of Holland. His uncompromising approach to ‘concrete sound’ has brought him to be on the same bill as Pan Sonic / Sudden Infant / Mego / Bruce Gilbert / Disinformation etc. He even was mentioned in the Rough Guide to Drum and Bass as an influence on the developing Breakcore scene through his bizarre turntablism and various self built drill turntables. Paul/Nomex is currently residing in New Zealand.

+ ANTHEA CADDY / THEMBI SODDELL – Bringing together the textural and dynamic capabilities of the cello, with an extensive palate of sampled and abstracted found sounds, this collaboration between Australian sound artists Anthea Caddy and Thembi Soddell generates a provocative and tense sonic world. They will be touring Europe again very soon so this will be their last duo performance in Melbourne for 2009.

+ XIAN -
1 cup of fresh ghetto funk
2 tbs of salt
1 tbs of live Vietnamese Раn tranh
16 wooden bridges
copper stings
chuck in a couple of snare drums & cliche speed metal riffs to taste

bobs your uncle
serve hot

+ OPTICAL EYES – DIY psyche-out visceral brain fuzz.

+ dj MR NATHAN GRAY between the acts!

+ NOMEX(UK/NZ) – Nomex is the pseudonym of Paul Kidd, under which he has been performing and releasing audio and video works for many years. Nomex has performed in many diverse locations around the world, from the ICA in London to the squatted galleries of East Berlin, from huge outdoor festivals in France to the trash bars of Milwaukee, from the Red Factory in Switzerland to the Link in Bologna, from the Parisian catacombs to the established art spaces of Holland. His uncompromising approach to ‘concrete sound’ has brought him to be on the same bill as Pan Sonic / Sudden Infant / Mego / Bruce Gilbert / Disinformation etc. He even was mentioned in the Rough Guide to Drum and Bass as an influence on the developing Breakcore scene through his bizarre turntablism and various self built drill turntables. Paul/Nomex is currently residing in New Zealand.

+ ANTHEA CADDY / THEMBI SODDELL – Bringing together the textural and dynamic capabilities of the cello, with an extensive palate of sampled and abstracted found sounds, this collaboration between Australian sound artists Anthea Caddy and Thembi Soddell generates a provocative and tense sonic world. They will be touring Europe again very soon so this will be their last duo performance in Melbourne for 2009.

+ XIAN -
1 cup of fresh ghetto funk
2 tbs of salt
1 tbs of live Vietnamese Раn tranh
16 wooden bridges
copper stings
chuck in a couple of snare drums & cliche speed metal riffs to taste

bobs your uncle
serve hot

+ OPTICAL EYES – DIY psyche-out visceral brain fuzz.

+ dj MR NATHAN GRAY between the acts!

Egon Schiele, revolutionary Austrian painter/artist, dead at 28, was not, we repeat, not Australian. He went nude crazy. But, it is fairly well known he never saw a documentary featuring animal Conservationists masturbating a rhinoceros.

The Egon Schiele Big Band will be delivering quick 10 minute style pieces. Music, Moving Picture and Live Human Interaction between…

Erick Mitsak
Trev Clay
Robbie Avenaim
Paul Lossier
Rod Cooper
Diana Szabo
Sam Karmel
Tarquin Manek
Margaret Goninon
Shaun South
Some Cunt
& more…

Plus dj sets by Delatoska in Tokyo live via skype!

Justice Yeldham (Syd) / Sean Baxter + Ikko Taniuchi (Osaka) / Pig+Machine + Jared Davis + dj Garbage Sandwich

JUSTICE YELDHAM aka LUCAS ABELA (SYD) / SEAN BAXTER
IKKO TANIUCHI (OSAKA) / PIG & MACHINE
JARED DAVIS
dj GARBAGE SANDWICH between the acts!

8:30pm
$10 (full) + $5 (conc)

Click here for Stutter Myspazz

Ikko Taniuchi is a Japanese painter and dancer from Osaka. He is the originator of the live painting form ”Enogu Butoh” (Painting Dance) – a butoh performance where he pours paint over his body absorbing the colours and dancing in harmony to extreme sound performances to create one off unique paintings. He often performs in collaboration with live musicians. He has collaborated with Ovenaxx, pig&machine, gulpepsh and many more. He has recently completed successful shows in New York and Vienna.

This Wednesday the 2nd of December @ Stutter…

*

HOCHMAN & HOPKINS (MATTHEW HOPKINS FROM NOTV/VINCENT OVER THE SINK, ETC & YONI HOCHMAN FROM HOLY BALM) ARE VISITING FROM SYDNEY – THEY MAKE SCARY, AQUATIC MUSIC.
*

The Mute Canary Double Duo – Dualities involved in the combination of two saxophones and the two guitars reflect the inconsolability of increasing global standardisations in modern Occidental/westernised societies, where there is never enough of anything or everything. Where an only option is to expand and enlarge, but not to expatiate, with the simplistic question of how much to swell up to, we could only afford to be a Double Duo for this very occasion. Featuring: Yusuke Akai – guitar, Elliott Dalgleish – saxophone, Scott McConnachie – saxophone, Jack Richardson – guitar
*

THE FRENCH (NATHAN GRAY SNAWKLOR/VORTICES, BIANCA HESTER OF PAECES AND ACCOMPLISHED SOLOIST JULIE BURLEIGH) MAKING EXPERIMENTAL BASS HEAVY DIASPORAN INFLUENCED TONAL WORKOUTS
*

dj NEIL SWEENEY (Superstupid) between the acts!

@ Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne

8:30pm
$10 (full) + $5 (conc)

Click here for Stutter Myspazz

Yama Boy “Moon Cycles” Album Launch

With Special Guests*
Love Connection
Lords of Lard
Vlady Vivaldi

Yama Boy Invites you to come along to an evening of warm swells,
and coat yourself in dripping melodies that linger. Recorded over
the past year in his bedroom “Moon Cycles” is a lofi journey through
a kaleidoscope of emotions.
To begin the night Vlady Vivaldi will collage an assembly of sounds – MOOD
Lords of Lard will play with percussive structre and lyrical flow – PACE
Love Connection will take us up and over rolling hills of momentum – ENERGY

$5 entry

Cumbiateque presents a Uruguay vs Argentina dancefloor duel, with the notorious rivalry fuelling a rhythmic showdown to shakedown even the most reluctant dancer

Born in Montevideo on the northern bank of Rio La Plata, is DJ Señor Eclectico: Melbourne’s Don of Latin American sounds on vinyl. “Cumbia, porros, salsa, samba, batucada, house and latin jazz are all in the pipeline,” said DJ Señor Eclectico before this bout of beats.

In the southern corner of the big river is Buenos Aires native DJ Mono, who in a statement sent via email from Buenos Aires said he is returning from South America with: “New cumbia cabeza from the ghetto. Hot from the villa”. Don’t forget on Friday mornings to tune into PBS 106.7 FM show The Latin Connection, hosted by DJ Mono, also known as Leandro Palacio.

Aktion Unit + infinite decimals + Little Killing + Battlesnake

+ Aktion Unit + infinite decimals
+ Little Killing + Battlesnake

AUDIBLE BUFFET
Feast your ears on Horse Bazaar’s 8 – channel spread, with
4 live performances and 4 playback compositions.

Thursday 17th September 2009
7.30pm
FREE

Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street (Between Elizabeth and Queen Sts)

Supported by RMIT union arts

PROGRAM

PLAYBACK COMPOSITION

Lizzie Pogson
Title: Coordinates
Duration: 6′46”

LIVE PERFORMANCE

Tessa Elieff: Tattered Kaylor
Bass guitar, 6 level stairwells and sonic cavities are the instruments in this piece.

- An excerpt from a series of stairwell recordings gathered over three years, “Blind City Flâneur” presents listeners with a wash of naturally occurring sonic phenomena. The clash between concrete, steel, space and sound wave alone has been caught and released into your direct surrounding environment.

PLAYBACK COMPOSITION

Kristian Roberts
Title: Six Songs for Saint Catherine
Duration: 7’00”

LIVE PERFORMANCE

K & M

K&M are the improvising electronic/musique concrete duo of Phoebe Fulkner and Jason Montero. Using field recordings, electronic textures, real –time computer processing and live special manipulation, K&M explore areas of musical interaction and psychoacoustic landscape.

PLAYBACK COMPOSITION

Luke Hand & Sasha Margolis

Title: More than a game
Duration: 5’00”

LIVE PERFORMANCE

Que Nguyen

A decade of drinking in bars, pubs and clubs has not only induced good times, fluid to slurred ramblings, liaisons, vomit and blurred memories; but has also inspired the ideas for this multi-channel work, suitably performed in a bar.

PLAYBACK COMPOSITION

Simon Cotter
Title: Dust & Fauna
Duration: 4’27”

LIVE PERFORMANCE

Marco Cher-Gibard & Rosalind Hall

Rosalind and Marco make live video saxonography. They’ve worked together investigating audiovisual performance and improvisation since 2007, performing at various events including Electrofringe Festival (2008), NOWnow Series at Serial Space (2008), Make It Up Club 10th Anniversary (2008) and more recently at Beat Projections at the Footscray Community Arts Centre (2009).

A Dead Forest Index is brothers Adam and Sam Sherry, a two piece based in Melbourne. They create haunting walls of sound and harmony, built with layers of percussion, delay and voices. Playing live at the Horse Bazaar September 10th with Extreme Wheeze and ITA.

+ A Dead Forest Index

+ Extreme Wheeze

+ ITA

$6 at the door
8:30pm start

People’s Tour Launch
7PM

It’s the launch of a series of audio tours called ‘People’s Tours” http://peoplestour.net There’s about 15 tours on the website, and this Fringe Festival event would launch four new ‘local history’ tours from 3CR Community Radio and funded by the Office of Public Records

The launch would have some quick speeches and then a 20 minute “live tour” by musician Irine Vela, who is doing a tour of her life as a working musician.

Free entry

Abstral Compost
Wordsmith frantic Swiss legendary poet Abstral Compost is in Australia for the first time. Visiting from his home in Switzerland, this man is not afraid of putting his finger in his own bum and yours if you’re lucky. With multi lingual vocals, including French, Spanish and English, Abstral is bursting with energy, he spits electric raps and heart felt spoken word over strange and twisted noise beats. This sweet smiling rebel will tear down the walls of conventional rap lifestyle with fierce sets of passionate anarchism. This will be his last show for this tour in Austalia!
* pig&machine – ”pig&machine are without doubt the best post-breakcore/spazznoize/fuckface/NeonFaecesRiot-core Japanese-Australian duo in all of the world! They shit fluffygrunt-core anthems in their sleep!!!!!! DO NOT MISS!” Rod Steward, 2009

* Mr Tape/Slesu/Videotape + (Suprise Package)
ex Curse ov Dialect members come together to find each other lost in a collage of improvised sample madness, loop pedal experimentation, freestyle dimension rap, voodoo initiation theatrics and special guest appearances by suburban drug addicts turned hip hop producer ’suprise package’. This act has braced the Melbourne scene with original displays of spontaneity at its finest for over six years. Footscray uigurs cucumber chilli salad mixed with Thornbury Han style rice and crispy chicken samples accompanied by Kurdish beat box is the sound, and thats just the specials menu.

* dj Ai Yamamoto is tuning into experimental/abstract beats to ease busy December between the acts!

@ Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne

8:30pm
$10 (full) + $5 (conc)

GOLDEN FUR play JANI CHRISTOU - GF will be ’launching’ the continuum part of Jani Christou’s ”Epicycle”, to be completed at the New Music Project 3 on August 8th. The work will thus become a 3-day event.
ALEX GARSDEN – Solo extended technique acoustic guitar
OSCAR VICENTE SLORACH-THORN – ORGANS,TOYS, TAPE LOOPS, PATCH, BELLS, TINDER BOX CLOSED CIRCUIT, lonely mumbling
dj sets by FRANCIS PLAGNE between the acts!

CUMBIATEQUE presents MUCHA RUMBA Y MUCHO MAS…
saca la mois DJ!! + DJ Andyloop in conversation LIVE via Skype from Barcelona

Cumbiateque goes Catalan. Cumbia from Barcelona is explosive, fused with the energy of rumba. What is rumba? Think Cuban&disco&funk&psychedelia played by Spanish gypsy flamenco musicians. My European tour started in Barcelona, at Sidecar Club’s legendary Brazelona Sessions hosted by DJs Andyloop and Wagner Pa. DJ Andyloop introduced me to the important Apolo Club, as well as Barcelona’s infamous tapas-speakeasys and clandestine bars where the sounds of rumba dominate.
My DJ set will be featuring new and classic tracks from Peret, La Troba Kung-Fu, Ojos de Brujo, Andreu I Els Rumberos, Dusminguet, and rumba remixes by Toy Selectah, DJ Merey, DJ Txarly Brown…

What’s Mine Is Yours

Clothes Swap @ Horse Bazaar
Date:Saturday, October 10, 2009
Time: 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Location: Horse Bazaar

You love clothes. You ¢¾ your clothes – but you also covet your friends’ clothes…so what better than a clothes swap with lots of friends? A clothes swap that’s also about raising money for a good cause whilst being environmentally responsible.

‘What¡¯s Mine Is Yours’ is a clothes swap at digital arts bar Horse Bazaar on Little Lonsdale Street and you’re invited (so we can get that fab outfit of yours we’ve been after).

HOW IT WORKS
Step 1:
Search your wardrobe for up to six items that you’re not wearing regularly anymore. They can be clothes, accessories or shoes. Check they are clean, with no marks, tears or holes and that they are something you know someone else at the swap will love. No swimwear, underwear or items that have loads of fluff bobbles or are sagging in all the wrong places.

All items will be screened and checked at registration.

Step 2:
Arrive at 3.30pm to register. We¡¯ll open the doors to the treasure trove once everyone has registered, so please arrive on time to help the swap run smoothly. Have your clothes/accessories/shoes checked and collect one token for each item.

Whilst the clothes are being organised enjoy a glass of champagne and the feel good sounds of the ‘What’s Mine Is Yours’ DJ – and enter the raffle for gorgeous original artwork (see examples below) – generously donated by Sarah Beetson http://sarahbeetson.blogspot.com/

Step 3: (Ohhh the best bit)
Swap begins. Explore a giant wardrobe of clothes, accessories and shoes – we¡¯ll have mirrors but no private change rooms so wear clothes that you can easily slip in and out of.

Step 4:
Bring your finds back to the registration desk to ¡®buy¡¯ them with your tokens. If you don’t find six items you want to take home, chillax – all surplus clothing will be donated to the Salvos – so you’ll go home feeling good for the lovely contributions you’ve made.

THE GOOD CAUSE BIT…
All profits from the swap will be donated to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre http://www.asrc.org.au/. ASRC is the largest provider of aid, advocacy and health services for asylum seekers in Australia. They work directly with asylum seekers, both living in the community and in detention to provide direct aid and support as they seek refugee status in Australia.

THE ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE BIT…
By participating you’re being environmentally smart. Recycling and reusing clothing reduces the huge amount of waste, carbon emissions and waste water produced by the Australian clothing and textiles industry every year.

SO…
Bring along six items of clothing, accessories or shoes to swap, and leave with up to six ‘new’ items.

1 item = 1 token = 1 ‘new’ swap find

RSVP that you’re attending, invite your friends and get wardrobe raiding…

Bamboo music: nice music for people

Mr Fish, Shaun Parker and guests bring you soulful, rhythms, beats and rhymes from around the world and just next door.

Think Fania to Tru Thoughts, Jay Dee to Jay-Z, the Rock Steady Crew to the Saïan Supa Crew.

With our upbeat selection from now and then and everything in between, we’ll get your weekend started right!

SHOEB AHMAD (ACT) / LEITH THOMAS


EVAN DORRIAN (ACT) / CANDLESNUFFER


BIDDY CONNOR


MATT EARLE (NSW)


dj PART TIMER between the acts!

DJ Vachel and Guests play music to listen to

RiP: A Remix Manifesto

To help Launch the Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice launch its latest campaign: En Masse, we are screening the exciting new documentary on remix culture: RiP: A remix manifesto.

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film features mash-up musician Girl Talk, Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow.

Watch the trailer at: http://blip.tv/file/1329162

Download the flyer

When: Tuesday 20th October at 7:30 pm
Where: Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Cost: A very reasonable $10 / $5

About our new campaign, En Masse:

The Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice’s En Masse Campaign has three main aims. To Rethink Copyright in our digital age; to Reclaim culture by encouraging people to step outside the current intellectual property regime; and to provide the tools to Redo cultural outputs, remixing them into something new.

TOMORROW THE WORLD

Festival of experimental sound, performance and audiovisual programming.

Tomorrow the World is a West Space project in the form of a mini-festival that focuses on experimental sound, performance and audiovisual programming.

The festival runs across a number of weeks and each weeknight is programmed within a different format. The eclectic line-up involves disparate arts communities, reflecting our aim to survey different experimental (and sometimes just plain mental) interdisciplinary and audiovisual arts practices. Essentially, we have given each artist free reign to do what they want.

The program has been curated and coordinated by Director, Phip Murray, and West Space’s After Hours Committee, a committee that was put together by sound artist Philip Samartzis in 2007 in order to program sound art and experimental music events. We are now broadening the focus in order to support more diverse and interdisciplinary programming at West Space, alongside our core exhibition program. This is the first Tomorrow the World festival and we intend to make it an annual event as well as programming other related events throughout the year.

We hope you enjoy the festival and encourage you to explore a range of evenings. The program will give you a calendar and an overview of each event, but we encourage you to look on the website for further information.

Program HERE

Although every event is special, we have two grand finales to finish the inaugural Tomorrow the World festival. On Saturday October 31 (Halloween!) we will throw a horror-themed party that will feature performances by Dr. Bikini, Mink Engine and DJ Ransom playing Italian horror soundtracks in his dancefloor mix. On the following Sunday, Philip Samartzis will be a captain of a different kind, as he takes us on a cruise down the Maribyrnong River featuring a site-specific sound performance.

Enjoy.
Phip Murray, Director, and the After Hours Committee: Philip Samartzis (convenor), Eamon Sprod, Camilla Hannan, Marco Cher-Gibard, Que Nguyen.

Blake and friends plays loose eclectic music to dance to. From 10pm, free

3 sets with Adam Simmons + a rare performance by Beta Erko!

Cult of the Placenta Head / Adam Simmons

Kevin James (NY) / Eugene Ughetti / Adam Simmons

Dave Brown / Stephen Magnusson / Ren Walters / Brian O’Dwyer / Adam Simmons

Beta Erko – Robin Fox / Anthony Pateras / Borce Markovski / Martin Ng

Digital Fringe artworks are currently playing on an extensive network of over 250 screens around the world: from retail television display walls to huge urban screens, hospitality venues, galleries, libraries and many other public nooks and crannys

Visit digitalfringe.com.au to submit your works and for more festival info, or contact us

Digital Fringe is produced by Horse Bazaar as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival (September 23 – October 11)

::: Design after Nature :::

Oliver Bown, Joel Collins, Alan Dorin, Alice Eldridge, Mark Guglielmetti, Indae Hwang, Troy Innocent, Taras Kowaliw, Jon McCormack,
Gordon Monro, Yun Tae Nam, Ben Porter, Mitchell Whitelaw

Opening night drinks on Thursday 3rd December from 6.00pm

First Floor
Guildford Lane Gallery
20-24 Guildford Lane
Melbourne

Exhibition runs until Sunday 20th December

Design after Nature is a collection of experimental ecosystems created as part of a three-year research project undertaken at the Centre for
Electronic Media Art, Monash University. The works were developed as part of an ongoing investigation into a systemic approach to electronic
media art.

Tuesday the 15th July

But as we all know, give a microphone to a designer and youll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Pecha Kucha consists of a diverse bunch of Melbourne’s creative community showing 20 images, each for 20 seconds. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to present.

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery. This is a demand that seems to be global, as Pecha Kucha Night has spread to over 195 cities across the world. You can check it out at www.pecha-kucha.org

Pecha Kucha is an event for anyone involved in, or interested in, architecture, design, fashion, art, craft, multi media or any creative field. Its intended to inspire a broad mix of participants – from emerging to established practitioners – anyone with interesting work to show and talk about. It can be a new project of any kind – real or imagined. It may be a building, a piece of furniture, an event, a film, an idea, an art piece, an invention or something unexpected and untried that you want to share with everyone.

Doors open at 6, presentations start at 8pm.

Mel and Meg and Friends
Expect hiphop / rock / electronica / honkytonk /soul / house / funk / latin / reggae (have i forgotten anything!)

portable film festival show reel below

No more waiting for watching – here’s the fourth annual Portable Film Festival!
Nearly 180 films, selected from more than 800 entries from 40 different countries, in all their cross-platform, cross-category glory. Screening online and downloadable to your iPod, PSP or 3G mobile phone, Portable is the festival that’s on your terms, on the go!

Over the month of August, the films will be battling it out for fame, fortune and free stuff across six categories – you can sign up to vote

Ducktails (US) + Tom Hall (QLD) + Ambrose Chapel (QLD) + Artefact

http://www.iwanttolivehere.org.au/

The 2009 I Want to Live Here film competition is focusing in on the Gentrification Game – The War On Creativity.

The war on creativity asks young artists to respond to the effects of gentrification in their cities and neighbourhoods. Gentrification is a demographic shift in an urban area which sees affluent middle class people move into an area creating higher demand for housing and leading to an increase in property prices.

This has the adverse effect of pricing out current and long term residents who generally don’t have the capital to adapt to higher rents. Melbourne has seen many of its inner suburbs like North Fitzroy, Collingwood, Carlton and Northcote rise in popularity and price; making it difficult for students and artists to afford housing.

The irony of gentrification is that it cuts out the people who contributed to the rise in popularity of a suburb. It is widely acknowledged that artists, bohemians, or ‘hipsters’  have attributed to the allure of traditionally down market inner urban areas, transforming former slums into sub-cultural paradises of hip cafes, artist run spaces, music venues and retro shops.

Yet instead of getting credit for creating dynamic artistic communities; livelihoods are threatened as artists scramble to find extra cash for higher rents, forcing many to move out.  This is a global phenomenon which affects creative communities everywhere, so if you’re in a place like Hackney (London), Wicker Park (Chicago) or Zizkov (Prague) then we want to hear your stories.

It’s time artists take back what they created. Make a 3 minute film addressing these issues and providing a solution so that in time artists get credit for the community they created instead of getting priced out!!

The Gentrification Game: The War on Creativity

Artists need to exist on the edge of the system. Wages are required to pay for basic living expenses such as rent and food. Time is required to be creative.

Cheap rent gives artists more time for their passion. This sees many creative communities develop on the periphery, often in rundown ghetto-like communities that are close to the city.

Unfortunately, land speculators know this.

How many times do we have to see an artistic community moved on from the community they create?

Chapel St central to Chapel Windsor, Brunswick St moved on to Gertrude St, then to High St, Northcote – now out of the city to Castlemaine?!!!

A few years after change agents set up the sort of community we should all aspire to, the fabric of the community is undone through it’s own success. Willingly. By our government’s policies.

Higher rents acts as a large paint brush, smothering a creative community with biege.

What are the economic forces behind this?

Attend a “Tax Minimisation for Lawyers” seminar and you will hear how land speculators are given a racial cultural profile of what a hipster looks like. “It’s your job to find them on a Saturday morning and figure out what vibe they look for. Then you have to try and find that look, that feel, in another suburb further out. Buy there and wait”.

Artists are pawns under the current system of property taxation. Artists give the ghetto a makeover with some tactile graffiti, a few cool cafes and bars emerge and then the wanna bees start to move in.

Aha! But the speculators are already there, rubbing their hands with glee.

Why should they take all the benefits of community creation?
Is it fair to blame the land speculator for a systemic failure?

Make a 3 minute film about this story and what creative people can do to find a balance between community, creation and ‘cleaning up’.

The judges will be looking for the following issues to be covered:

• To portray local issues in a manner that relates to any audience in an appealing manner.
• Gentrification outlined
• Higher rents as a weapon in the war on creativity
• How this effects creative communities
• How the tax system supports this behaviour
• What can be done about it?

IFFY BIZNESS – IF? RECORDS TOKYO/MELBOURNE SHOWCASE & 15th B’day
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 2009 – 9PM to 3AM

DJs
Andrez
Little Nobody
Funk Gadget vs. DJ Fodder

LIVE ACTS
Isnod
Son Of Zev
Koda
LN Elektronische Ensemble

* This party marks the 15th anniversary of IF? Records.
* It’s the first IF? gig in Melbourne (our hometown) in almost 3 years.

It’s the Global Launch for Little Nobody “Compulsion” remixes LP, with mixes by Wyndell Long, Luke’s Anger, Donk Boys, DJ Wada (Co-Fusion), Ben Pest, Koda, Ben Mill and others.

IF? BACKGROUND:

IF? Records is the Melbourne-cum-Tokyo-based electronic music label run by Andrez Bergen and a few co-conspirators in both cities, plus Brian Huber in San Francisco and Mateusz Sikora in Krakow.

Established in Melbourne, Australia, at the beginning of 1995 and based out of Tokyo since 2001.

Over these 15 years the label has worked with Melbourne’s Voiteck, Zen Paradox, Honeysmack, Koda, Son Of Zev, Isnod, TR-Storm, Bitch Shift, Enclave, Craig McWhinney and FSOM – as well as with internationals like Luke’s Anger, Donk Boys, Captain Funk, Si Begg, Dave Tarrida, Jammin’ Unit, Patrick Pulsinger, Subhead, Steve Stoll, Paul Birken, Fila Brazillia, Shin Nishimura, Toshiyuki Yasuda, Justin Robertson, and Thomas Heckmann.
Enclave

Here’s the FACEBOOK page:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102063217225

Electric Shadows: Photographic Exhibition

Super Human: Revolution of the Species
5 November – 5 December 2009, Melbourne

Inspired by the 150th publication anniversary of The Origin of Species, Darwin’s evolutionary treatise, Super Human: Revolution of the Species turns the spotlight on collaborations between artists and scientists and the impact these investigations have on what it means to be human, now and into the future.

Curating Masterclass
25 – 26 November 2009

Call for Applications – Deadline extension…now 31 August 2009.

Limited places still available – don’t miss out!

This intensive workshop provides curators, programmers and writers with the necessary skills and knowledge to reach broad-based audiences with works bridging the arts and sciences.

Presenters include: Christiane Paul, Whitney, USA; Jens Hauser Independent Curator, Paris; Sarah Cook, Curatorial Fellow, Eyebeam, USA and Co-founder CRUMB, UK; Erich Berger, Independent Curator (ex Laboral, Spain & Ars Electronica, Austria); Amanda McDonald Crowley, Eyebeam, USA; Douglas Kahn, Sound Theorist, USA; Angela Main, Artist, NZ; and, from Australia: Oron Catts, Kathy Cleland, Tina Gonsalves, George Poonkhin Khut, Kim Machan, Lizzie Muller, Helen Stuckey and Paul Thomas.

The Super Human Masterclass is presented by ANAT in association with the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI).

For further information and to apply please visit www.superhuman.org.au

YouMedia the ABC’s artist friendly online studio

• Direct publishing – no gatekeepers.

• Full quality downloads – no crappy flash files to fish for.

• Creative Commons licenses – you choose if and how you want your work reused and remixed.

• Non commercial – public media – it’s yourspace already!

from 10pm
DJ Roman Wafers

“DJ Roman Wafers hanging out at the bar all night long.

It’s goes up & down but it’s always ‘UP’..
The night is long and of many moods, Roman would like to help guide you through it.

From a well considered selection expect 2 hear:
Hear synth, new wave, disco, left field pop + more.

Wanna hear Roman at home?
Check out these mixes..

http://www.zshare.net/audio/58620232d4eeab28/
http://www.zshare.net/audio/6117584194f18d05/
-RW Bamboo mini-mixes. Bamboo is a bimonthly late nite dance party with resident DJ’s Roman Wafers & Dick Cheese.



6pm till 9pm

elise&jem + BJ Morriszonkle + Robbie Avenaim + DJ Paul Kidney

Get your sound mixes on Radio National’s The Night Air by uploading your works to pool.org.au (see above)

The Night Air on ABC Radio National is a weekly remix show that will broadcast the most creative contributions to this Pool project.

Get your sounds in the Night Air mix

If you’d like to make something for the radio but journalism or song-writing aren’t your thing, you might enjoy mashing up some words and sounds to tell a new story.

Build a conversation out of two separate interviews.
Use sounds instead of some of the words in a sentence.
Tell half a story and the listener’s imagination will tell the rest.

Share your word-and-sound collage in Pool via the audio upload page here.

If you want to use other people’s words and sounds in your collage make sure that the creators have allowed this re-use. One way to ensure this is to choose material licensed by Creative Commons, under a ‘non-commercial, by attribution’ licence.

You can find this kind of audio material in Pool by searching here. Choose Creative Commons BY or BY NC in the licence selector.

More information about Creative Commons here.

Another good place to find remixable sounds is freesound.org.

See all Pool contributions tagged The Night Share here.

Digital Fringe is on the hunt for screens, no screen too large or too small! check out DF09 for details

Sound. Culture.

Australia’s premier sound arts festival Liquid Architecture celebrates its tenth consecutive year with concerts, immersive sound presentations, audio-visual and recorded work, exhibitions and installations, featuring our most imaginative musicians, composers, sound designers and media artists in a sense-specific feast for the ears.

Join us for the Melbourne Festival Launch opening night and tenth anniversary celebration at Melbourne’s best audio-visual venue. Special guest line u:

Martin Kay and Nick van Cuylenburg (VIC)
Joel Stern (QLD)
DJ bags (VIC)

Vijay Thillaimuthu (VIC)

Presale tickets at www.greentix.com.au or at the door if not sold out.

CRAY vs CLEANINGLADY – A First time meeting of VICMOD Founder / Analogue Modular Synth Honcho – Ross Healy and local sound brutalist – Stephen Richards. Cray (Ross Healy) will be performing on an assortment of strange analogue noise machines including The Moisturiser VS cleaninglady (Stephen Richards) play saxophone , various wind instruments and empty mixer.

SECRET BIRDS (BRIS) – Brisbane’s psych/experimental collective Secret Birds will be doing a Krautrock set with a cameo from Aoi.The last remaining copies of the band’s debut release “Double Snake Hollow”, a 32minute cassette release will also be available for purchase at the shows. As described by Jakeb Smith of Rave Magazine, the tape consists of three “elongated pieces of music, each with sparse, lethargic rhythms and a focus on esoteric melodies drawn from chaotic oscillations.”

SPACE CACTUS – Experimental psych pop solo by Daniel Gordon.

BRUISE CONSTELLATION – Psych noise solo by Tom Caswell-Mead performing his 1st gig!

Deadline fast approaching July 13 2009

2009 SCREENGRAB Contest
Open Award :      New Media Art Prize (AUS$2000)
Tertiary Award :   Focal Press Tertiary Prize  (AUS$1000 Voucher)

Open Call For Entries <http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/idc/groups/public/documents/guide/jcuprd_0 47774.pdf>
Theme : INTERVENTION
Increasingly we live in a world which is marked by boundaries and difference.  Our actions are categorised and labelled for reference, sign posting and evaluation.

Intervention is the new catchcry of these troubled times and no one is immune whether it be remote indigenous communities, Wall St banks, tropical forests,
visual communication, economies of the state, small gatherings in shopping malls, subliminal advertising, ISPs, online discussion forums or pop cultural moments like Facebook and the Sopranos.

Screengrab’s inaugural exhibition and new media arts prize invites practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of Intervention.

All forms of screen based media are encouraged including multi-channel video, digital illustration, audio sculpture, photography, generative media, 2D & 3D anime.
_________________________
For submission guidelines see our info pack @ <http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/idc/groups/public/documents/guide/jcuprd_0 47774.pdf>
Download an application form @ <http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/JCUPRD_047936>
Deadline :  July 13 2009
_________________________

All submitted works will be considered for the exhibition SCREENGRAB |  INTERVENTION
Exhibition officially opens on Friday July 31,
Participants and award winners will be notified by Friday July 24.
__________________________

Screengrab is an initiative of the School of Creative Arts <http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/index.htm> , James Cook university, Townsville Australia.
Further enquiries can be forwarded to screengrab@jcu.edu.au

REGISTRATIONS FOR THE 25 FRINGE FURNITURE EXHIBITION OPEN

Fringe Furniture 2009 will radiate a lustrous shining light o f optimism as we celebrate 25 years of innovation in
Fringe  design.  The  25th  Anniversary  of  Fringe  Furniture  coincides  with  the  25th  Anniversary  of  another  leading
icon of cutting‐edge design – Apple Mac.
This  year’s  theme,  SILVER,  encourages  designers  to  explore  the  visual,  physical  and  symbolic  properties  of  this
bright metallic.
The  colour  SILVER  is  described  as  white  and  shining.  It  is  a  colour  that  is  impossible  to  represent  digitally  and
one that is often associated with the moon and the human so ul. Since ancient times the precious metal SILVER
has  been  highly  sought  after  and  has  been  used  for  everything  from  jewellery  and  coins  to  mirrors,  dentistry,
medicines  and  electronics.  From  silver  birch  timber,  to  the  silverpoint  drawing  techniques  used  by  Medieval
scribes, the theme SILVER is as far reaching as it is appea ling.
And of course, SILVER is customarily representative of the 25 th anniversary.

Colombian Independence Day Party with DJ Chris Castillo, originally from Bogota and fast establishing a reputation as Melbourne’s master of contemporary Colombian club sounds.

Every first Thursday of the month, Horse Bazaar in 2009 is once again host to the hottest and most innovative sounds and visuals coming outta Latin America, putting you right in the heart of the scene – whether its digital cumbia from Buenos Aires or Afro-Peruvian electronica.

The popular parties at Horse Bazaar will continue with showcases, EP and album launches, digital exhibitions and quality guest DJs spinning exclusive remixes and mashups.

Crónica is delighted to present the “1001 Songs of eBay”,
“Forget the technology, it’s lustful entertainment, baby!”

“The Sound of eBay” is an UBERMORGEN.COM project with Stefan Nussbaumer, online at www.sound-of-ebay.com since July 2008. Using eBay user data, The Sound of eBay generates unique songs. By simply entering any eBay username and clicking “generate”, the robots sprawl out into the net to collect data, bringing it back to the SC3 Supercollider sound-generation engine. The complex software-machine starts generating a score-file which is then transformed into a unique song.

“The Sound of eBay” transforms a role-model of individual commodities market in an “ARTitude” of robotic configurations and strings, swapping personalized and compositional business dreams with sound designs from secure client accounting. Using the concept of creative destruction, this entertainment- aggregation is tuning in a mind-blowing cutup, pushing the contemporary lifestyles over the edge and combines it with transformable delays of post- realistic business-analysis.

http://www.cronicaelectronica.org/?p=043
unlimited & free download

Pressrelease
http://www.cronicaelectronica.org/pr/pr043~2009.pdf

DAVID SHEA – Solo audiovisual performance
ROBBIE AVENAIM – solo , mechanical devices, vibraphone, percussion
Robbie will also present 2 extreme short films from Korean director Kim Gok with music by Kim Sun:
o ”Suicidal Variations” 2007, 16 mm/DV, 15min
o ”Digression / Degression” 2009, 16mm, 19min

Dj’s GABI and DJ2 between the acts!

RMIT presents Media Militia, a screening night of third year media arts students’ work, created specifically for Horse Bazaar’s panoramic projection system. Come and experience experimental video and animation, as they light up the walls of the 24×3 panorama. All proceeds go towards the 2009 Media Arts Graduation Exhibition, to be held in November.

Tuesday 30th June

$8 entry on the door, $5 for students. Arrive at 7pm for a 8pm sharp start

ON YOUR MARKS!

Sport inspires strong passions. Throughout the history of Australian art a wide variety of social, psychological and cultural concerns have been tackled in the name of sport. Winners and losers, rules and penalties, fans and souvenirs, triumphs, scandals and nation-building are just some of many crossovers between art and sport, brought together in the Basil Sellers Art Prize.

Submissions for the Basil Sellers Art Prize close 24 July 2009

This prize is supported by Mr Basil Sellers AM, who wishes to encourage contemporary artists to engage with the many themes within sport and promote critical reflection on all forms of sport and sporting culture in Australia.

The $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize will be awarded in August 2010, in conjunction with an exhibition of finalists’ work at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne. Finalists will receive a $3,000 participation fee. A further prize of $5,000 will be awarded to one of the exhibiting finalists on the basis of votes in the People’s Choice Award.

This is the second biannual award in a ten-year cycle. Over the life of the Basil Sellers Art Prize, we hope to change perceptions of the relationship between sport and art.

Clan Analogue presents Institute of Sound

Each month a guest presenter examines an aspect of electronic music performance and production, including live demonstrations and a Q&A session. This is followed by a live performance with an opportunity for members of the audience to take part in hands-on jamming. A projection system overseen by video artist Jonty Burton ensures that all audience members get a close-up look at the work of each month’s presenter throughout the session.

This month electronic music producer and live performer Anthony Pell (Apell) presents Live Electronic Music Performance.

You may be producing tracks in your home studio but how do you make the move to live performance of electronic music? This workshop will cover the tools and techniques used in live electronic music performance. Anthony will provide a background on how electronic instruments have been used to perform in the past through to the instruments and technologies used today, including MIDI controllers, laptops, soundcards and popular music performance software such as Ableton Live and virtual synths.

Entry to the workshop is free.

extended deadline:30 June 2009
——————————–
Cinematheque – streaming media project environments

http://cinema.nmartproject.net

Call for entries

\\
Flash & Thunder
Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations
//

Since the Internet became popular in the late 90′ies of 20th century, the software program “FLASH”, once developed and prepared for the commercial market by Macromedia, and now owned by Adobe, represents a vector based  developing environment which enables the creator to combine different media and develop vector based animations especially for the Internet. .swf  data file extension became a standard for animations online and offline, and Flash video and its .flv file format stands for “videostreaming” on the net.
As soon as the Internet started, artists captured it for artistic purposes, and the same is good for certain software used for the net, particularly Flash is predestined  for developing artistic creations due to its intuitive use. It became one of  the most popular software tools for the net, computer based animations and interactive applications like games. Flash based artworks entered media festivals, even festivals solely based on movies created in Flash are organised.

After Cinematheque – streaming media environments – explored in 2007  the capabilities of “Quicktime” as an artistic medium in the comprehensive show
\\Slowtime? Quicktime as an artistic medium// – its now the time to explore in 2009 the artistic potential of Flash in its own way in a big online show, as well.

//
Flash and Thunder
Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations
\\

Cinematheque
is looking for the best artistic Flash works created since 2000.

Please find the regulations and entry form on

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=408

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Cinematheque -
streaming media project environments

http://cinema.nmartproject.net

is a corporate part of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
http://www.nmartproject.net -
the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

______________________________________________
SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe
Info, archive and help:

http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre

Late Night Thursdays
@ ACMI

Synaesthesia is a program of free live performances exploring different forms of the moving image, including media art, newly interpreted live film scores and works that draw on sound and film archives, all live in Studio 1.
Thur 18 June
Qua with Isobel Knowles (live performance) + Paul Robertson (screening)

Applications are now open for Aphids’ new Hybrid Arts Residency at Radialsystem V, Berlin.

This is a unique and inspiring opportunity for an Australian young or emerging creative practitioner working in music and/or hybrid arts practice to undertake a residency at Radialsystem V in Berlin between the 22nd September and the 18th October, 2009.

QUICK RESPONSE – Applications due 5pm, Wednesday 3 June 2009 .

This is a unique and inspiring opportunity for an Australian young or emerging creative practitioner working in music and/ or hybrid arts practice to undertake a residency at Radialsystem V in Berlin.

Radialsystem V
Is a new creative space for the arts in Berlin. Formerly a turn of the century pumping station for the Berlin Wasserwerke (Berlin Water Services), Radialsystem V, situated in the urban centre of Berlin – currently functions as a cultural centre where new ideas `radiate’ out in all directions, attracting artists and the public from within as well as beyond the city limits of Berlin. Working with artists, ensembles, and other partners, Radial System V strives to develop genre spanning, innovative artistic formats, setting them into practice.

Hybrid Arts Fest-Asia Pacific Weeks
The residency at Radialsystem V coincides with the Australia-Pacific Festival. RADIALSYSTEM V is an innovative cultural centre in an old pumping station on the river Spree that opened in 2006. In October 2009, as part of the Asia-Pacific Weeks, Radialsystem V will become a hub for contemporary arts, presenting hybrid arts from Australia, that freely cross the border of dance, music, film, performance and visual arts. Initiating diverse partnerships and links between Germany and Australia, the festival will include a long night of music, two artist-in-residence programmes, a family day, a short film night and an international conference about “New Spaces for the Arts”.

The Residency
The residency allows an artist engaged in cross-artform practice to take part in a critical mass of activity taking place in Radialsystem V. Artists are encouraged to propose a body of work in new music, sound, new media of cross artform practice which they would like to develop at Radialsystem V that explores the idea of industrial buildings converted into art spaces.

Dates
The full residency period takes place from the 22 September to the 18 October 2009. The successful applicant will need to be available for this period.

The deal
Radialsystem V will provide accommodation for the residency period, and tickets to festival events taking place at RadialsystemV
A communal living area can be used by the artist as working studio space.
A travel grant of $4000 + gst towards airfare and living expenses is provided by Aphids.
The selected resident will be required to present an artist talk or similar in negotiation with Radialsystem V.
The selected resident will be required to write a review and report of their residency at Radialsystem V.

What to send in
Applications by email only to residencies@aphids.net and should include:
1. Brief statement about why you want to undertake this residency and how it would further your artistic practice;
2. Brief biography (including your age), focusing on your work in music and/ or cross-artform practice.
3. Three examples of your work (written text, images, music and/or video, webpages made available only online or as an attachment to your email)

Eligibility
To be eligible, you must be:
• An Australian artist
• Working in music, sound, hybrid arts or cross-artform practice
• Young (under 30) or emerging (in the first 5 years of your professional artistic practice)
• Available to undertake the residency in Berlin for the period from 22 September – 18 October 2009

Assessment process
Applications will be assessed by a panel of representatives from Aphids, Radialsystem V and an independent arts expert. Applicants may be asked to come in for an interview as part of the assessment process. The successful applicant will be announced as soon as possible after the closing date.

Contact
For more information on the residency or to send your application, email: residencies@aphids.net
url: www.aphids.net

DJ Josh and Friends 9pm till late

Free Entry

Anonymeye, the nom de plume of Brisbane’s Andrew Tuttle, reconfigures country and folk musics within an abstract sonic framework, utilising electronic and acoustic instrumentation including acoustic guitar, signal processing, synthesisers, and effects units. Anonymeye straddles and blurs boundaries between improvisation and composition, experimentation and pop, acoustic and electronic, rural landscapes and urban landscapes.

Anonymeye’s new album The Disambiguation Of Anonymeye is out now through the sound&fury label. www.myspace.com/anonymeye

ii (pronounced “i i”) are a duo from Melbourne, Australia, who chart a course through guitar-based atmospherics, noise, instrumental pop and sound art. Comprising Alex Nosek (guitar, synthesiser, computer) and Jon Tjhia (guitar, synthesiser, computer, drum set), the group focuses equally on improvisation and premeditation, with an interest in breaking from
melodic and harmonic structure. ii are known for their densely layered live sets and recorded improvisations, as featured on their Landlakes album of 2008. www.myspace.com/iitunes

Automating is Sasha from Melbourne, Australia. Sasha’s work as Automating encompasses creative processes and instrumentation such as effect units, tape manipulation, field recordings and Guitar MIDI sampling.
www.myspace.com/automatingautomating

tunes before/between/after bands by Christina Tester.

Free Entry

http://www.myspace.com/orishamusicoz

ABRE OJOS’ ”ELEMENTS” DVD LAUNCH featuring performances by

• ABRE OJOS – the tracks Air and Spirit from the DVD will be played live on modular synth matched with live visuals.
• JK FULLER (Mum Smokes, Zond, etc) solo performance ”making sounds with various equipment”
• WITNESS GIRL audiovisual noise experiments
• dj sets by CAT GRRL in between the acts!

8:30pm start.
$10 (full) + $5 (conc)