Teen Ax, Mitchell Brennan, Junk Sick, Nic Tammens, wife

CANTANKEROUS RECORDS

Hmm...

Hand Made Music Festival.
KIPL - 136 Roden Street, West Melbourne
Sat 20th Aug 8-12pm $15
►Vessel Project ►Toy Death ►cleaninglady ►The Earl of Lunchington ►Whizz Kidd vs. the Magic Organs ►Eric Demetriou

Workshops Sun 21st Aug

►Complete circuit bending >Nick Wishart 10-4:30pm $150
►Amplified sound sculpture >Rod Cooper 10-1pm and 2-5pm $100
►Massive reverb Drum >The Earl of Lunchington 11-1 and 2-4pm $45/$30

Places are limited, bookings essential. Full details and registration at http://handmademusic.me/workshops

Poletopra, Golden Fur, Ambarchi/Talia, Thembi Soddell, and more.

Samuel Dunscombe (Golden Fur, Chi Uro, Forth Impact) is moving to San Diego (UCSD), to undertake doctoral studies!

On Thursday 25th August, come celebrate his move (and help him raise some $$$ for course fees) at this fundraising/benefit gig...

Performing on the night will be:

Golden Fur feat. Cat Hope and Kim Tan
Poletopra (Anthony Pateras and Marco Fusinato)
Oren Ambarchi and Joe Talia
Thembi Soddell
Sam Dunscombe, Marco Fusinato, and Nic Tammens

With delicious sound in between acts by DJ Juarez.

Entry: $12 full, $8 concession

A special thanks to all those involved for donating their time to this cause.

live audio - visual convergences

Static Mansion & The Threave Cinematheque Present:

A night of live Audio-Visual convergences

with:
...
Campbell Walker (NZ) / Kim Pieters (NZ) - Moving Image

Radio Cegeste (NZ) / Chris Smith / Ian Wadley / Wife - Sound

Wednesday 22 / 06

$5

Campbell Walker is an underground filmmaker from Dunedin, New Zealand. He has made 4 features, including Uncomfortable Comfortable (1999), generally regarded as the first digital feature made and released in New Zealand. His work is often typified by a focus on acting and improvisation within a minimal framework, as well as by a focus on film as an expression of the movement of time through space. (http://www.listener.co.nz/commentary/campbell-walker/) For this screening he will be showing new films made in Melbourne.

Sally Ann McIntyre is a Dunedin based artist whose mini FM radio
station Radio Cegeste (http://radiocegeste.blogspot.com/) investigates transmission as a site-specific, live experimental medium, via ephemeral sound performances which engage the improvisational potential of the electromagnetic spectrum, using a mini FM transmitter, a flock of small radio receivers, field recordings, shortwave, violin, music box, crank gramophone and portable record players. Radio programmes for live narrowcast performance have recently been heard at the Lines of Flight festival (Port Chalmers), Fredstock (Wellington), Overground (Melbourne), and have been installed variously, including in the exhibition Postcards from Gowanus at Cabinet Magazine's Gallery in New York, and the Frequency Oz series at the Deep Wireless festival, Toronto.

Kim Pieters is perhaps better known in her roles as abstract painter
and experimental musician in such New Zealand underground groups as Flies inside the Sun, Dadamah, Rain and Sleep, but her
interdisciplinary collaborations have been heard and seen in
exhibitions New Zealand wide, and a gathering archive of audio visual works has emerged to growing acclaim, seeding initially from her involvements in the visual side of legendary Dunedin experimental music festival Lines of Flight, which she began with Peter Stapleton in 2002. With their tendency to leave the viewer/listener in temporal suspension, these films' visual scoring of sonic abstractions and dronescapes inverts a sensory hierarchy as much as it promotes embodied sensorial immediacy, and are at home equally in the white cube of the gallery installation and the black box of the cinematic space.

Ben Butcher INC Documentation

Some very nice documentation of INC Melbourne edition,

Courtesy of Ben Butcher via Long Exposure.

INC. FUR CHICK

INC. GAUNTLET

INC. DEAD BOOMERS

INC. SOCIAL CLIMBER

INC. FTRG

INC. LAUNDRY ROOM SQUELCHERS

INC. OCCULT BLOOD

Absolute Decimation Imminent...

Manfred Werder stück 1998, Christian Wolff Fits and Starts

April 29^th

8PM

$8/$10

Manfred Werder stück 1998

performed by Alex Garsden, Judith Hamann and Francis Plagne.

Arek Gulbenkoglu and Dale Gorfinkle duo.

Christian Wolff Fits and Starts

Performed by David Brown, Jared Davis, Alex Garsden, Judith Hamann, Yuko Kono, Francis Plagne and James Rushford.

Manfred Werder is a core member of the important and influential Wandelweisser Composers Group, alongside Michael Pisaro, Radu Malfatti and Antoine Beuger. Active since the early 1990s, their music has emerged as one of the most important currents of contemporary music to respond to the challenges posed by the works and writings of John Cage. Often focusing on the possibilities for compositional simplification to result in sonic complexity and the experiential potentials of highly reduced approaches to music, their work features heavily conceptual methods of composition, a focus on the threshold between sound and silence and an interest in extended durations. Werder’s stück 1998 is a 4000 page long piece for open instrumentation, the total duration of which is 533 hours and 20 minutes. The pages are performed successively by different groups throughout world, each page being performed publicly only once. Each page consists of a number of tones, each tone held for six seconds with an equal duration of silence after each tone. Werder views his work as involving an interaction between performance, context and the listener’s experience, and the radical simplification of the musical material stems from his belief that ‘the more balanced the meeting of all parts, the more challenging an event may emerge’.

The works of Christian Wolff have been influential on the Wandelweisser Group and he had occasionally collaborated with its members, making his 1971 Fits and Starts a fitting accompaniment to Werder’s work. Wolff’s works are distinctive in focusing on the interactions between the players, often making use of somewhat intuitive systems of cues in order to create interaction that could not be brought about through conventional notations. In Fits and Starts, the challenge for the players is to all independently follow a similar set of loose instructions without following the other players, resulting in a modest yet constantly shifting rhythmic complex.

Arek Gulbekoglu and Dale Gorfinkle perform delicate and thoughtful improvisations for snare drum and vibraphone, transforming their instruments with the use of everyday objects and unorthodox techniques into sources of richly textured white noise, semi-randomized rhythms and subtle percussive interjections. They recently released a CD, Vibraphone/Snare on Melbourne label Avantwhatever.

Documentation: No PA Percussion 02.04.11.

NO P.A Presents: Acoustic Percussion

Sabbatical Presents: Justice Yeldham

Globe-trotting glass eater Lucas Abela has made a career out of exploring the extreme side of sound. First it was with turntables attached to saw horses with sewing machine motors, briefly Freddy Krugger-styled record needle gloves, then it was a contact mic'd trampoline. For the last few years, under the guise of Justice Yeldham, it's been glass.

Starting each performance with a large sheet of glass, a contact mic and an array of effect pedals. Performances last as long as the glass can withstand the pressure of Mr Abela's face.

Sabbatical is proud to present this rare Justice Yeldham performance as Mr Abela stops over in Melbourne on his way to who knows where.

KIPL custodians and all-round excellent gents Wife will kick off proceedings, followed by the interminable noise assault of Fucked. Offering a welcome respite, Miles Brown & Shags Chamberlain will cleanse the aural palette with their theremin and synth explorations.

Finally, Justice Yeldham will perform on a couch. Seriously, that was his only rider request - a couch to perform on.

It's an early start for an early end. It is a Monday night after all.

Monday, 28 March 2011
7.30pm

Justice Yeldham
Miles Brown & Shags Chamberlain
Fucked
Wife

Seven dollars entry

Laundry Room Squelchers INC MIAMI 2011

Sabbatical Presents: The International Noise Conference

Since 2004 Rat Bastards INC festival in Miami has become an institution for the USA noise underground. It's no laptop / no droning / no money / no bullshit / 15 minute sets approach and levels of inclusion has set it apart from any normal noise festival to become the most invigorating 3 days on the USA festival calendar. In recent times Rat has been taking the concept on the road and this year Australia gets its first taste in Sydney on the 20th of May and Melbourne on the 21st.

Melbourne features: Dotåbåtå / Chaos Warrior / Cult of the Placenta Head / Reunion Sacred Ibis / Poison Sockets / FTRG / Undecisive God / Social Climber / Radical Creation / Aktion Unit / Juarez / The Multifunctional Gut Of Fish / Screwtape / Lloyd Honeybrook / Furchick / Oranj Punjabi / Gauntlet / Rod Cooper / Hex on the Beach / Sean Baxter / Incompetent Cervix / Marco Fusinato / Dead Boomers / Occult Blood / Wife / Heil Spirits / Ebola Disco / Nomex (NZ) / Leslie Keffer (USA) / Graham Moore (USA) / Laundry Room Squelchers (USA)

Sabbatical Presents: Aux Assembly

For one night only Sabbatical is proud to present the welcome return of Aux Assembly. It has been almost a year since the last performance by the duo - a pairing of Elise Bishop and Dimitra Bucolo - one of the first and most popular artists to be released on Sabbatical.

The show is the fortuitous result of Elise briefly returning to Australia coinciding with significant progress in Dimitra's recovery, which was ably assisted by contributions from the recent benefit show at the Corner. Seeing the group back in action is a truly exciting prospect.

The inviting surrounds and friendly folk of KIPL will play host to event that includes a range of local noise makers and one Kiwi guest.

Saturday, 5 March 2011
5pm

Aux Assembly
Dead Boomers
Full Fucking Moon (NZ)
DEAD
Mad Nanna

Seven dollars entry

NO P.A Presents: Makiko Yamamoto, Don’t Laugh Show

Hi It is time to have a fun night!
One night event, This coming Friday

Don’t Laugh Show

Date: Friday 4 th March 2011

Place: KIPL, 136 Roden St, West Me lbourne

Time: Door opens at 7:00 pm

Explanation of the show

“Target” (Three chosen performers, Samaan Fieck, Kishore Ryan

and Chris Dolman), which is physically and mentally quite hard. What they

have to do during the show is to watch various performers (I will call

performers Gagsters) and role of Target is NOT TO LAUGH. The Gagsters

will perform in front of Target and for them to make them laugh. If Target

laugh during the performance, they will get a punishment by team Punisher,

which will be a smack on the bottom each time they laugh. A punishment

will not create too much pain but it will be enough to say pain.

This show is a part of NO P A project by KIPL. The show will be

the appropriation of Japanese TV program Don’t Laugh 24 hours by Down

Town (Gakino tsukai ya arahende). Makiko Yamamoto who is practicing visual

artist based in Melbourne, is curating this show to experiment in the possibility

of use of gallery with visual and sounds artists to activate the space and

also challenging how much we can be unintelligent through the form of art.

29.01.11 Aditional documentation by Shea

NOMEX

Marco Fusinato

Default Jamerson

MV

More of Shea's work here:
http://www.grandpastudios.com/

Kipl presents: The Vessel Project, cleaninglady, Vijay Thillaimuthu and Marco Cher- Gibard.

As part of the 'No PA' series, Kipl presents:

The Vessel Project

The Vessel project is an initiative founded by Rod Cooper and Dale Chapman in 2009.
...
The Vessel took four years of planning and over a year to construct.

The Vessel project primarily focuses on instrument building, installation and live performance.

The sonic work of Rod Cooper spans more than 20 years.

Cooper’s interest in instrument building started while completing his sculpture degree in 1988. The many skills developed during the production of his unique instruments, enable him to produce complex metallic instruments.

Cooper performs regularly through out Australia and has toured overseas in the UK, New Zealand, America, Ireland, Indonesia and Japan.

Chapman builds the electronic components of the vessel. He constructs oscillators and delicately hacks existing devices that yield to the pressures of his soldering iron.

By combining many ideas into a singular complex interface, the Vessel has a large range of sounds, incorporating percussion, bowing mechanisms resonant springs and electronic noise.

Measuring in at over 3.5 meters in length, the hollow metallic construction of the Vessel creates a unique timbre. The large boat shaped sound chamber covered with strings and idiophones produces an acoustic resonance that is large in scale, a sound that Cooper himself equates to the vast spaces of the urban underground that he explores with fellow collaborator Dale Chapman. In 1990 Cooper and Chapman formed Klunk. Klunk’s Mantra was sub-terrestrial improvisation. It was during these urban underground explorations where they cut their teeth, developing a new approach to improvisation and performance, leaving behind a back catalogue of rare recordings.

Also Performing:

cleaninglady : Crazed saxaphonisms driven by pedal mania.

Vijay Thillaimuthu & Marco Cher- Gibard : Unpredictable sonic assassinations touched by the hooves of electrified mules.

136 Roden St West Melbourne Friday 11th Feb

Doors 7:30pm

$10 Entry.

Nomex 29.01.11

Marco Fusinato 29.01.11

Default Jamerson 29.01.11

MV 29.01.11

Sabbatical Presents: nomex (NZ)

Concrete Sound: 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.

Saturday, 29 January 2011

KIPL

136 Roden Street, West Melbourne

Nomex
Marco Fusinato
Default Jamerson
MV

Doors at 7.30pm. Seven dollars entry.