29/5/11-Sunday Night Ongaku
Posted on | May 29, 2011 | No Comments
Whilst Melbourne gears up for the International Jazz Festival & Overground with visiting artist Sakoto Fuji (Sakoto Fulii Quartet), Sydney’s Bird’s Robe collective prepares for a musical onslaught by Japanese experimental musician Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins!).
To celebrate we’re dedicating an hour to Japanese sound art, improv, installation and beats…beginning with Japan’s equivelant to hip/hop beats turntablist DJ Shadow…..
….DJ Krush is a Japanese producer and DJ who recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of his solo career. He is well known for his atmospheric instrumental production which incorporates sound elements from nature and extensive use of jazz and soul samples. Tonight we will be bringing you a track was from his year 2000 mixtape release Code 4109.
After that we are returning to the original foundations of Japanese experimental music with experimental pioneers Group Ongaku (Music Group), a collective who explored musical improvisation between 1958 and 1962. They used to meet at various locations around Japan and improvise using found objects, tape machines, radios, and random instruments. Their creative process is akin to ‘automatic writing’ in the same sense that Jackson Pollock used ‘action painting’. If you’re looking for more information, you can read a great essay on them in the book Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art by Brandon LaBelle.
Japanese heavy rock Boris and noise god Merzbow have collaborated again for the 6th time this year with their new release ‘Klutter’ (2011). Their new record features just what you would expect-raw heavy rock, harsh noise in a krautrock atmosphere.
Ryoji Ikeda- Japan’s leading electronic composer, sound, installation and recording artist. Primarily uses computer and digital technologies, especially focussing on ‘microscopic’ methods for sound engineering and composition. Collaborations include choreographer William Forsythe/Frankfurt Ballett, contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, architect Toyo Ito and artist collective Dumb Type, amongst others. Ryoji Ikeda received the Golden Nica prize at Prix Ars Electronica 2001 in the Digital Music category – no easy feat!
Test Patterns (2008) is based around a cross-platform digital conversion software system that takes any format of data (sound, image etc) and transforms it into barcode patterns. These are then reformed as audio data, sculpted into composed structures by Ikeda.
So essentially he is standardising media components so that he can reinterpret them as a tools for composition.
Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician, active in free improvisation and Japanese onkyo.He uses a no-input mixing board as a live interactive musical instrument. Tonight we will be taking a listen to a track from his release-Egrets (2010).
Melbourne International Jazz Festival / SATOKO FUJI (Touring) and Natsuki Tamuri
Melbourne international Jazz festival kicks off on 4th June 2011. This year features a range of incredible local and international Jazz related artists including: Sun Ra Arkestra (USA), Faust (Ger) and fly me To The Moon (w Tex Perkins & Kimbra). Also features Overground- a multi stage festival of celebrated creative and improvisational artists. This years Overground features Japanese artists Sakoto Fuji- pianist who splits her time between NY and Japan and Tatsuya Yoshida of avant-rock duo Ruins. Collectively the acclaimed duo perform in the Satoko Fujii Quartet. http://www.melbournejazz.com
Lastly tonight we’ll leave you on rather sad note: – Gil Scott Heron-Revoloutionary poet, musician, spoken wordist, black rights activist and SNATM favourite sadly passed away on Friday, aged 62. Before his passing he released an incredible album called ‘I’m New Here’, We will celebrate his legacy by playing a track off the record- ’New York Is Killing Me’…
23/5/2011-Sunday Night Selections w/ guest host Peter Hollo
Posted on | May 22, 2011 | No Comments
Stitched Vision's Open Palms 4 track Cassette (2010)
Tonight on Sunday Night at the Movies we have a selection of tracks from artists Stitched Vision, Ian Andrews, Gameboydrice, and Company Fuck’s Scott Sinclair.
We will be starting the show with a track by Japanese machine noise act Defektro.
You can catch Defektro at the High Reflections Finale this Wednesday and Thursday from 8pm at The Red Rattler, Marrickville.
High Reflections presents two nights of celebration of the series at the Red Rattler. We have picked HR favourites, many of whom will join each other in first time groupings and we’ve added a few musicians who were yet to perform our events.
Two nights of sonically expansive sounds; from blissed out electronics to doom, from high intensity performance to textured drone.
8:00 – 11:00pm, $10 per night
At the Red Rattler, 6 Faversham Street. Marrickville
Wednesday May 25th
Emily Morandini: Homemade electronics, cable, alligator clips, copper, razor blade, sound.
Defektro: Hirofumi Uchino is the mastermind and father of hand built machines , which produce sampled, chewed up, harsh junk metal.
Jon Hunter + nonemusic: Sub-voidal nothingness meets psychdelia and science fiction.
Joel Stern + Pia van Gelder: Light producing audio, video opened out into wire, free noise cinema, and the farmyard
Knitted Abyss: Buzzy jams of melodic guitars, organ and vocals.
Thursday May 26th
Black Math: Black Math is a collection of devices for divining the musical potential of sacred and diabolical geometries.
Machine Death: New Wave Sludgecore
Cleptocleptics + Scissor Lock: ongoing bouts of noise battles taking place in dark rooms
Sean Baxter, Kusum, Peter Blamey: Extreme vocals, feedback, steel wool, skins; trouble.
Thembi Soddell: Dynamic extremes, disquieting sonic worlds.
High Reflections began as an irregular event with a home at Serial Space in early 2009. Since then we have produced 14 shows of diverse and eclectic experimentalism across a range of genres and practices in weirdness.
HR acknowledges the support of ArtsNSW and MusicNSW
We’ll see you there!
PLAYLIST
1/Destructive Reconstruction-Defetro 3:35
2/Live from Totally Autumn Sideshow at Serial Space (April 2011)-Stitched Vision 20:29
3/The Fringes of Experience-Ian Andrews 6:32
4/Wethintuse Salahbae-Scott Sinclair (aka Company Fuck) 24:29
5/Grimpen Mire (From the Selden Soundtrack, 2010)-Gameboydrice 6.42
1/5/11-Sunday Night Soundscapes feat. Tiny Stadiums Festival 2011
Posted on | May 1, 2011 | No Comments
Tonight on Sunday Night at the Movies we will be taking you on a sonic journey through urban soundscapes, and taking a look at Quarterbed’s Tiny Stadiums Festival 2011.
TINY STADIUMS FESTIVAL, ERSKINEVILLE, 2-15 May 2011
PRESENTED BY PACT centre for emerging artists
& FBi RADIO
CURATED BY QUARTERBRED
PACT centre for emerging artists presents the fourth annual Tiny Stadiums Festival in Erskineville, Sydney, curated by resident artist run initiative Quarterbred. Featuring two weeks of free and ticketed events, the public is invited to experience stirring contemporary art by some of Australia’s finest emerging artists, culminating in a free weekend of live art from 3-15 May.
Tiny Stadiums aims to lure the curious and delight those who intentionally (or unintentionally!) stumble upon it throughout the streets, shops, pubs and parks that make up Erskineville.
This year, Tiny Stadiums presents a selection of provocative and exciting project that consider art and its social relationship to public space. Activating traditional and non-traditional art spaces in and around the village of Erskineville, the chosen works span mediums including video, performance, live art, participation, installation and duration.
Last year, Tiny Stadiums was nominated for an FBi SMAC Award for best arts event in 2010.
Artists include: Applespiel, Beth Arnold, Lucas Ihlein, Dan Koop, Bennett Miller, Nat Randall, Amy Spiers and Lara Thoms.
Tonight we are lucky enough to be joined by artists Lucas Ihlein and Jamie Gray live in the studio-the creators of Tiny Stadium’s project WHAT LIES BENEATH. They will be chatting to us about what we can expect from their project and the festival in 2011.
LUCAS IHLEIN (NSW)
with the staff and students of Media Arts at the University of Wollongong
What lies beneath (small soundworks for the sleepy)
As industry is flushed out of the city, we can easily lose touch with what lies beneath our tidy lifestyles: the gritty reality of good old-fashioned NOISE. What lies beneath (small soundworks for the sleepy) gives local residents the chance to rise and shine to an alarm made up of noises from steel manufacturing and computer dismantling factories recorded and created by Wollongong artists.
WHERE – In your own bedroom, each morning
GET INVOLVED - http://whatliesbeneath.org
Eraserhead is set in the heart of an industrial center rife with urban decay. Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) is a printer who is “on vacation” for the duration of the story. The film begins with the mysterious “Man in the Planet” (Jack Fince) manipulating large mechanical levers while looking out of his window. As he does so, a ghostly creature emerges from the mouth of Henry, floating in space. The creature eventually flies away amidst images of rock formations, a circular opening, and bubbling fluid. Tonight we will be sharing with you a 9 minute excerpt from David Lynch‘s 1977 surrealist masterpiece Eraserhead-Henry’s Dream sequence..
German post-industrial act EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN released Strategies against Architecture IV in 2010-a compilation album that featured a retrospective view of their works between 2002 – 2010. Tonight we will sharing with you a track from this release!
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL was a sound installation created for the IF Milton Keynes International Festival Artist in Residence 2010. Sound artist and composer Janek Shaefer created the installation and describes the process on his project site:
| “I was invited to make an installation on the theme of ‘cars’ in the city of roundabouts. Through thinking around and beyond this theme, I learned a lot about the implications of the way we live, and how our ravenous culture is feasting on our own planet. Pumping ourselves to a peak. I created a ‘ghost road’ of cars within a vacant supermarket as an informative portrait of that mind set, and how we can change it. The exhibition reveals how I became enlightened towards making a difference personally, and also waking up those around me to move to a more sustainable way of living and thinking. I am not perfect, but I am now awake.
Asleep at the wheel… is a metaphor for how we are culturally careering down the fast lane of life in charge of a lethal weapon with our head in a daydream and our foot to the floor with the expectation that the road goes on forever. The exhibition is a thought provoking and immersive sound installation for multiple car radios, that contemplates our future. Exhibited in a vast disused supermarket, three-lanes of cars dissect the darkened interior, as the multiple hazard lights illuminate the space, revealing the finite road of our consumer driven daydream. ‘More more more’ is no longer a desirable destination. You are invited to be a passenger in the back seats, as the in-car sound systems broadcast a collage of moving music and motivating sound-bites. On the return journey the Lay-by Library area encourages you to explore positive ways to improve our future together. Society’s pedal to the metal attitude to our world is not sustainable and is running out of road. We need to change gear, before we overtake ourselves . . . our windows of opportunity are slowly winding shut. Come and celebrate new beginnings.” |
Tonight we will be sharing with you a short excerpt from the installation. If you are curious to find out more, and download the entire installation for free, you can find out more information on their site http://www.audioh.com/projects/asleepatthewheel.html.
German based art director/sound designer/experimental composer Ralph Lichtensteiger released a new sound project last year-Musique Trouve (2010).
The project includes variety of sound collages/soundscapes strongly influenced by philosophers such as John Cage and Samuel Beckett. Tonight we will be playing a track from the four part section of the release entitled Sonorité Sans Mémoir IV. Access to their catalogue is here: http://www.onclicknyc.com/musiquetrouvecatalog.pdf.
2/MACHINEFABRIEK AND STEPHEN VITIELLO : Chocolate Sprinkles, Tape, Egg Cutter, Rice, Plastic Bag 9:02
3/LUCAS IHLEIN & JAMIE GRAY : Tiny Stadiums Soundworks 8.72
4/RALPH LITCHENSTEIGER : Fragment 8.46 (2007)
6/ERASERHEAD : Henry’s Dream Sequence 9.00 (1977)
5/JANEK SHAEFER : Asleep at the Wheel 7.00 (2010)
6/EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN : ‘Palast Der republik’ from ‘Strategies against Architecture IV 2.36 (2010 Mute Records)
Sunday Night at the Video Arcade
Posted on | April 24, 2011 | No Comments
Tonight we are paying tribute to Gerald Lawson-pioneering game producer who passed away a little earlier this month. We’ll pay our respects by hearing music from chip tuners and video game composers.
Tonight we will also be playing selections from Sydney electronic trio Seekae who are actually totally obssessed with computer game music, new game scores, gameboy demonstrations and more…
First up tonight we have a couple of tracks from the 8-bit construction Set (USA)-a computer vinyl concept project on which Commodore 64 and Atari game systems go head to head in a side A vs side B b battle.
The vinyl features samples, scratch tones and locked grooves for djs and game enthusiasts. It also contains data, the idea is that you dub the audio to cassette tape, follow load instructions on inside of record (Atari c64 or old skool computer w tape drive) to play game music versions on your console. Plays organ tunes to during this process to relax you.
Tracks have been dropped by Matthew Herbert, Mixmaster Mike, Bodenstandig 2000, Dj Godfather, and Luke Vibert in live dj sets.
Next up tonight we have a selection of music from the open world action adventure western video game Red Dead Redemption. It was released on Xbox 360 in one year ago in May. Most of the music on the soundtrack was composed by Bill Elm and Woody Jackosn from Friends of Dean Martinez with additional contributions from various musicians. Recorded at 130 beats per minute in A minor, most of the songs featured are constructed from stems in the game’s dynamic soundtrack.
Bioshock 2 is a first person shooter video game developed by 2K Marin for the Xbox 360 and Playstation consoles. The sequel and was released in February last year. The game is set in the fictional underwater dystopiaof Rapture, in a biopunk 1968, eight years after the events of BioShock. The protagonist and player-controlled character is a Big Daddy, a being that has had its organs and skin grafted into an atmospheric diving suit
Award winner Gary Shymann composed the stunning soundtrack for both Bioshock and it’s sequel with a 60 piece ensemble in Hollywood Studio Symphony. The soundtrack will be performed for the first time in it’s entirety by the Media Composition and Studio Ensemble full orchestra at California State University on May 9th 2011. Although to you might not be able to make the live experience, we will be taking you on an underwater dystopian journey by playing the entire 17 minutes of the Bioshock 2 score for you tonight.
Some musicians use their gameboys etc to make music – this is called chip music (not to be mistaken for computer game music). This has become popular with lots of online communities and even an international festival called BLIPFEST. In Aus we have a sml chip music community with artists such as DOT.ay in Brisbane and Ten Thousand Free men and their families in Sydney. Ten Thousand Free men and their families aka 10k caught up with us late last year. we’re going to revisit in on him tonight and hear more about chip music in Australia and hear a gameboy music demo.
Lastly tonight you will hear from a track by the Mikro Orchestra. The Mikro Orchestra is an experimental sound – visual project from Poland, who use hand-held game consoles as a music instrument. They collective create new sound spaces on the base of tones generated live from hand-held game consoles during a highly intensive performance consisting of massive explosion of visuals. In a world dominated by ever more advanced digital music technologies, the Mikro orchestra try to throw in a little bit of irony into the electronic music scene by playing music with low tech hardware and relatively simple software.
Tune in next week for Sunday Night at the……. (it’s a suprise!)
Tribute to Tony Barrell
Posted on | April 24, 2011 | No Comments
Two weeks ago Sunday Night at the Movies was hosted by guest programmer Shannon O’Neill who played you a short tribute to the late, great Tony Barrell, as well as a classic from the Double Jay era, Russell Guy’s ‘What’s Rangoon to You is Grafton to Me‘.
For those of you who missed the show, here’s the playlist!
1/Late Night TV-Spazmodics
2/Tribute to Tony Barrell-Russell Stapleton
3/Whats Rangoon to you is Graften to me-Russell Guy
4/Clockradio Power-Moby Death
Penguin Plays Rough- Book Launch
Posted on | April 17, 2011 | No Comments
Our literary loving friends from Penguin Plays Rough-a popular monthly night of live short fiction in Sydney’s inner west, that is adored for providing emerging local writers with a stage (aka big red chair) and an audience to test out new material on, are launching their very first book May!
The release is accompanied by an iPhone app (audio compilation) which features collaborations between sound artists and writers – including a contribution from one of Sunday Night at The Movies live Erotic Fan Fiction specials (hot)! To celebrate, tonight we will be playing selections from the PPR compilation and chatting to coordinator Pip Smith this weekend. We’ll also hear a live collaboration between accordionist Monica Brooks and writer Amanda Maxwell. Hear it on FBi first here, on Sunday Night at the Movies!
PPR are launching their first a book early next month. The project features a limited run of books, dust jackets and accompanying iPhone app which has paired musicians and sound artists with writers. We’ll be hearing some of those recordings on tonight’s show.
Pip Smith, curator, instigator of Penguin Plays Rough – also a writer herself, having poems and stories published in ‘HEAT’, ‘Meanjin’, ‘Voiceworks’, ‘Going Down Swinging’, ‘Island’ and ‘Pan Magazine’ will be chatting to us a bit tonight the background of Penguin Plays Rough and what they have in store for 2011. Pip will also be sharing with us some pieces from the audio competition.
Tonight we are also lucky enough to be joined by two special guests performing live in the studio – writer Amanda Maxwell author of Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like These (a collection of short stories) and Monica Brooks of West Head Project, Splinter Orchestra, Mayas/Altman/Brooks Trio.
And now onto some other music we will be featuring tonight….!
MoHa! (Norway) and Horacio Pollard (Uk/Ber) will hit Sydney next week for a couple of shows -
Sat 23/04 Dirty Shirlows, Marrickville Sonichemarea Fest, w Godswounds, Drillbit, Scissor Lock, Psychic Date
AND
Tues 26th, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Studio-Impermanent/171194392897024
@ 154 Victoria Rd Rozelle, Australia w Emily Mc Daniel, Mike Cooper
Clips for these artists will be on our program page on the new shiny looking FBi site!
Also, we are playing you a track by Scalps ‘You’re Only Young Forever Once‘ off the new RLS ’3′- third rls. Scalps is in actual fact Alps of NSW – solo project of Chris Hearn from Newcastle – we saw him play at Sound Series on Friday night, Hardware Gallery, Enmore!
And finally, we will leave you tonight with something by Godswounds – playing at Sonichimaera Fest – an amazing track called Rubberneck.
Don’t forget to tune in again next week, 9pm!
PLAYLIST
1/ In The Beginning – Language
2/ The Catacombs
3/ Extremeophile?? – Language
4/ Live Reading
5/Lodge A Sto Dialo
3/4/2011-A Collage of Words and Sounds
Posted on | April 3, 2011 | No Comments
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Tonight on Sunday Night at the Movies we will be showcasing a range of word selections handpicked from Sydney writer/poet and guest programmer Alana Hicks.
Before we do though we will first be hearing a radiophonic sound collage piece from 1994 by People Like Us.
Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) is a London based multimedia artist with an extensive range of records featuring collages of music and sound since 1992.
Bennett animates and recontextualizes found footage collages and provides her listeners with an equally witty and dark view of popular culture with a surrealistic edge.
People Like Us is performing at the Open Ears Festival in Canada.
Amongst the words selections chosen tonight, we are celebrating the 19th year anniversary since the release of Steven Jesse Bernstein‘s Prison.
The concept for the Bernstein album Prison was for Jesse to do a raw, live performance at the State Penitentiary Special Offenders unit in Washington in 1991, inspired by Johnny Cash’s Live at Folsom Prison. Sadly, the album was only partially complete before he died.
Bernstein is regarded as one of Seattle’s most famous voices, particularly due to his recordings with Sub Pop Records and his close relationship with William Burroughs. Bernstein’s substance abuse coupled with his declining mental health contributed to his provocative local celebrity, but ultimately resulted in his tragic suicide in October 1991.
New York documentary film maker Pete Sillen released a feature length documentary film portrait of Bernstein’s life in December last year entitled I Am Secretly an Important Man which we highly recommend you check out.
Lastly tonight we will playing a 30 minute live recording by Argentinian experimental guitarist and sound artist Alna Courtis. This piece was recorded at Serial Space in February 2011 and is a live soundtrack documenting the industrial revolution in his Native Argentina.
Below is a three part video we found of Alna Courtis creating some sound magic, outdoors..
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Tune into Sunday Night at the Movies every Sunday night between 9-10pm for your weekly experimental fix.
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1. People Like Us – Guide to Broadcasting 12:51
2. Charles Bukowski – The Death of an idiot (off poems and insults) – 2:40
3. Derrick Brown – Cupcake (off Black Urchin) 4:02
4. Buddy Wakefield- Healing Herman Hesse (off Run on Anything) 3:00
5. William S Burroughs – Kill The Badger! (off Dead City Radio) 3:00
6. Jarod Paul – ABC’s for Roger 3:19
7. Steven Jesse Bernstein – Face 12:35 (off Prison)
8. Greg Simonsen – The Jabberwocky 3:02
9. Gil Scott Heron – Your Soul and Mine (off I’M New Here – not WE’RE new here) 2:02
10.Sole – Part 7 of The Pyre 4:51
11. Anla Courtis – Live soundtrack – 30 mins- Recorded Feb 2011 at Serial Space
SOONERS 7″ LAUNCH WITH PEAR SHAPE, LUKE BACON/SONER SAHAN & FISHING DJS
Posted on | March 30, 2011 | No Comments
Sunday Night at the Movies featured experimental sound artist Luke Bacon is playing tonight at Good God Small Club. We highly recommend this one for all you noise fiends out there…
SET TIMES
DOORS 8.
LUKE BACON & SONER SAHAN – 8 30
PEAR SHAPE – 9 30
SOONERS – 10 30
FISHING DJS BEFORE INBETWEEN & AFTER
Pear Shape – http://www.triplejunearthed.com/PearShape
Luke Bacon – http://luke-bacon.com/
Fishing – http://www.myspace.com/fishinggg
Tickets $10 on the door.
Sydney’s Experimental Artists Special feat. James Domeyko & Kirin J Callinan LIVE
Posted on | March 27, 2011 | No Comments
This week on Sunday Night at the Movies we are bringing you some of the best that Sydney has to offer in song-based experimental music. Experimental electronic duo Domeyko/Gonzalez‘s highly anticipated new album “No Way Back” will not be released until May. However, this Sunday we are lucky enough to have James Domeyko himself joining us live in the studio to perform his latest solo project and give us an exclusive preview of the new record. To celebrate the launch of the new-look Kings Cross Hotel on April 8th, the enigmatic Kirin J Callinan will be chatting to us live from a restaurant in the Blue Mountains and sharing with us a couple of new tracks from his home recordings selection. Both James and Kirin will also be sharing their thoughts on Sydney’s current experimental scene.
First up tonight we have a new collaboration track from Sydney based experimental electro punk artist Simo Soo and USA touring buddy Laco$te.
Simo has played shows all over Australia as well as Spain and the USA with acts such as Justice Yielham, Alps, The Laurels, and Peaches‘ backing band Sweet Machine. He has also remixed artists such as Emergency! Emergency! and The Death Set.
You can catch Simo next at Sound Series @ Hardware Gallery, April 15th with Scalps.
James Domeyko is a sydney musician who has played in Djanimals, Arkestra and Domeyko/Gonzalez. His music has a mixture of influences but can be described as impressionistic with sounds inspired from minimalism, jazz and modern soundscape music. James has studied alto saxophone since 9, piano since 14, vocals since 15 and guitar since 17 all of which have provided different approaches to creating sounds or songs. Occasionally playing improvised gigs locally, sometimes under the anagram Moody Kee Jams, James doesn’t play many solo gigs but rather can be seen playing most frequently with friend and multi instrumentalist producer Jaie Gonzalez in Domeyko/Gonzalez. His most effort was a soundtrack to director Aimee Lee Curran’s short film Awake which recently won a Sydney International Film School scholarship.
Tonight we are lucky enough to be giving you a sneak preview of the highly anticipated new Domeyko/Gonzalez mini album No Way Back! The mini album will not be officially released until 19th May.
You can catch James playing at:
April 8 Kings Cross Hotel, Domeyko/Gonzalez DJ’s.
April 9 Surry Hills festival with Domeyko/Gonzalez
May 7, Domeyko/Gonzalez @ The Lansdowne with Dark Bells.
May 19, The Launch of exhibition No Way Back.
Sydney based artist Kirin J Callinan primarily plays guitar an sings but does so in a unique way- it’s hyper theatrical, a little like he’s channeling a cryogenically frozen Elvis through a shitload of delay pedals. We’ll be hearing some of his new music -including his collab with James Domeyko.
This is a review of Kirin J Callinan‘s latest solo 7″ release, lifted from the music website messandnoise.com – ‘She‘ is a slow burning desert love song, all tumble weed and condemned, rusted petrol stations, showcasing the whammy bar-happy electric stylings that have come to define him. He’s among the least reserved and most theatrical vocalists in Australia at the moment, but he’s a natural performer and he delivers with sincerity and conviction. This 7” is also available as a cassette, with a Go-Betweens cover on the flip-side of both formats, and if Robert Forster wasn’t so busy producing boring triple j indie rock bands he’d probably write an essay about this. Which I would too, if space and time permitted.”
Kirin recently released She , which is the title track on the limited edition 7″ single which was released via Siberia Records on November 12. last year.
This 7” is also available as a cassette, with a Go-Betweens cover on the flip-side of both formats,
Unfortunately Kirin was unable to join us in the studio tonight as he is working as a Maitr’ D at the Hazelbrook Bowling Club in the Blue Mountains, however we are lucky enough to be able to chat with him on the phone tonight…
Kirin’s upcoming Shows:
2nd o’ April – In Melbourne w/ Pets with Pets and Love Connection @ The Workers Club, Fitzroy.
8th o’ April – FBi Social @ the Kings X Hotel, w/ heaps n heaps.
9th o’ April – w/ Pets w/ Pets & Love Connection @ The Red Rattler, Marrickville.
We’ll leave you tonight with a collaboration piece which both James and Kirin recorded a couple of days ago. Simply entitled COLAB, the piece was written, set up, recordied and packed down in only 30mins in Kirin’s spare room.
Tune in next week for more experimental sounds! And don’t forget you can catch both James and Kirin on April 8th at the Kings Cross Hotel Launch Party! While you’re there check out the new FBI Venue: FBI SOCIAL as well! We promise you’ll love it.
Photos of Kirin J Callinan by Mclean Stephenson.
Playlist
1/ Ridin’ in Carz with Boyz-Simo Soo & Lacoste 3.30
2/ Shi Speaks & Prayer Books by James Domeyko 1.55 and 0.57
3/ James Domeyko Live Improvised Set 10
4/ Side B-Now Way Back by Domeyko/Gonzalez 6.15
5/Untitled experiments by Kirin J Callinan 4.56 and 4.52
6/Mary/America by Kirin J Callinan 5.40
7/ Colab by Domeyko/Callinan 7.05
Records: Experimental Sydney Part 2
Posted on | March 20, 2011 | No Comments
This week once again, Sunday Night at the Movies: Experimental Audio takes you into Sydney’s warehouses, bookshops and galleries for a series of live sound art performances, recorded over this city’s summer months 2010 / 2011.
Picture Credits: Mikey Hamer / Lucien Alperstein for Alyssa Critchley & Cyclic Defrost
Our featured project ‘Records: Experimental Sydney’ captures live recordings and impromptu performances from artists including Jon Hunter, Ambrose Chapel, Spartak, Jon Watts and Aemon Webb and Ben Byrne at Sydney’s Now Now Festival, Difficult Music Festival, High Reflections, Refraction and Celebrated Summer Festival.
You can head to Records: Experimental Sydney’s home here to preview the video performances of participating artists or below to preview performances from artists featured in each show.
New clips are added to the blog weekly.
On Sunday’s program we’ll hear live performances from:
Jon Hunter- Live at Difficult Music Festival, 05.01.2011
Jon Hunter @ Difficult Music Festival from Records: Experimental Sydney on Vimeo.
The Cross Art & Books, Kings Cross
Jon Hunter is an electronic artst / musician living in Sydney. He creates sound installations, composes and performs music for modified spring reverberation units, computer and guitar. Hunters’s works sits somewhere between psychedelia and science fiction. Sounding like organic field recordings but synthetically rendered, these tense environments teeter on the edge of collapse whilst the echoes of Hendrix and Haino fly past. He is a part of The Holy Soul, Guarde Compartmente (a duo with Monika Brooks & Delirium Tremens ( a duo with Peter Newman). He has performed with the likes of Damo Suzuki (Can), David Thomas (Pere Ubu), Yusuke Akai, Somaya Langley, TAD, Nick De Jong and Shoji Hano. He co-presents the weekly new/experimental music program ‘Song X’ on 2ser wirth Martin Ng & Peter Blamey and coruns a small label Magnetic Recording Council .
http://www.magneticrecordingcouncil.com/jonhunter/
Difficult Music Festival is a month-long series of challenging independent music performances from local and international sound artists, experimentalists and fringe performers. The annual festival is held across a number of venues including small-scale bookshops, ARI’s and warehouses as well as the occasional licensed venue. During it’s 31 day run in 2011 there was an average of 3 events per week. Each one was curated by an artist, group or other involved in Sydney’s experimental and independent music community.
Ambrose Chapel- Live at Refraction 27.11.2010
Ambrose Chapel @ Refraction from Records: Experimental Sydney on Vimeo.
Serial Space, Chippendale
Ambrose Chapel is a new music project by Ian Rogers (No Anchor). Forged in the sweltering spare rooms of Brisbane summers, Ambrose Chapel finds Rogers exploring new sounds, production techniques and modes of performance. The results are epic in design and structure, taking the ominous bass experiments of his doom metal band No Anchor and marrying them to someone else’s more sophisticated and tranquil palate.
Refraction performances feature student acts or groups alongside established artists.The aim is the development of student/artist relationships and the formation of mentorships, including the general operation of the performance.
Ben Byrne – Live at High Reflections 04.12.2010
Ben Byrne @ High Reflections from Records: Experimental Sydney on Vimeo.
Serial Space, Chippendale
Ben Byrne is an artist, musician, curator, researcher, tutor, producer and writer. He has performed extensively in Australia and overseas, both solo and in various groups, and has recently released Disposition on his own label Avantwhatever. His solo performances of visceral improvisation represent a conscious and thorough consideration of the laptop as instrument, focus on the relationship between the musician and his equipment as it plays out in any given space and ask the audience to chart their own path as the music constantly emerges from and disappears into a mess of signals, actions and noise.
http://www.avantwhatever.com/bb/
High Reflections (HR) was an ongoing series of adventurous and experimental music events, produced by Caleb Kelly and Alex White. High Reflections aimed to present artists from a range of backgrounds in a listening focused context. 04.12.2010 was the last event in the High Reflections series.
Jon Watts and Aemon Webb – Live at The NOW now Festival 26.01.2011
Jon Watts & Aemon Webb @ the NOW now Festival from Records: Experimental Sydney on Vimeo.
Serial Space, Chippendale
Jon Watts was born in Bulli, Wollongong in the early nighties. Since then he has built some sand castles, cut some hair, and played some music. He hopes to continune to do these things for some time.
http://soundcloud.com/jondouwewatts
Aemon Webb is a postmodern schizophrenic man. He makes glitch music via digital splicing and microwaved compact discs, plays arhythmic appear-like-I-have-no-sense-of-time drums, screams his lungs out for cosmic noise improv collective Nhomea, and performs subdued electronic soundscapes as a splinterer. Influences result from meeting Mr. Attali at the crossroads, who informed him to continue making decentralised music. Aemon currently and sleeplessly resides in roadwork-infested Chippendale, Sydney.
http://thenownow.net/archives/2010-festival/2010-festival-artists/
The NOW now is an annual festival of spontaneous, exploratory and experimental music. in 2011, it’s 10th year of festivities, The NOW now took place between the 21st and 28th January.
Geodesic Domes on Futuristic Landfill @ Difficult Music Festival from Records: Experimental Sydney on Vimeo.
Spartak - Live at Celebrated Summer 21.11.2010
Image Credits: Spartak
Dirty Shirlows, Marrickville
Spartak are a Canberra based improv duo consisting of Shoeb Ahmad (guitar, electronics) and Evan Dorrian (drums, percussion). They are heavily influenced by Post Punk and Experimental music.
Celebrated Summer was a DIY film project and festival, organised by Ten zen Men in association with Dirty Shirlows. The lineup was immense and included a local, national and international independent network artists across two stages.
You can watch the film project contributions here.
All audio and video from Records: Experimental Sydney was captured by Jon Hunter. The project was produced and curated by Brooke Olsen.
Records: Experimental Sydney – Documenting Sydney’s sound art and experimental music communities, October 2010- April 2011.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia council, it’s arts funding and advisory body.
PLAYLIST
1/Spartak, live at Celebrated Summer 20.11.2010 (Shirlows)
2/Ambrose Chapel, Live at Refraction 27.11.2010 (Serial Space)
3/Jon Hunter, Live at Difficult Music Festival 05.01.2011(Cross Art & Books)
4/Jon Watts & Aemon Webb, Live at The NOW Now 26.01.2011 (Serial Space)
5/Ben Byrne, Live at High Reflections 04.12.2010