emma-davis
In the lead up to her debut record, Emma Davis releases ‘Machines’; a stunning track that combines Emma’s rich melodies and natural story‐telling with the humble sound of a Casiotone.
For the last year the London‐born Sydney songwriter has worked with acclaimed troubadour Brian Campeau (Angus and Julia Stone, Melanie Horsnell, Elana Stone, Cuthbert and the Nightwalkers) to piece together a record of her stories and give her sweet melodies and subtle turn of phrase the delicate treatment that they deserve. Over the year, musical friends have piled into Brian’s home-made studio in Newtown to lend their own voices to the stories that were once so personal. It is a record made up of the quiet moments shared between people; stories of awkward conversations, mistaken loves and unfathomable friendships, told with such honesty that you can’t help but see yourself in them.
Machines is a beautiful track which showcases Emma’s gorgeous folky voice, her subtle turn of phrase, and her sweet melodies – alongside the humble sound of the casiotone.
http://www.myspace.com/emmadavismusic
Birds Eye View Film Festival 2011 (London, UK)
Earlybird applications close: Friday October 1
Regular applications close: Friday November 5
www.birds-eye-view.co.uk
The 2011 Birds Eye View Film Festival is seeking short film submissions from women filmmakers from around the globe, to be part of an innovative and inspirational celebration of talent. Screenings will be held at leading London film venues, including the British Film Institute (Southbank) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
The Birds Eye View Film Festival 2011 will open with a special gala screening of short films on March 6. The rest of the festival will include retrospective screenings, live music, workshops and master-classes, feature and documentary screenings and Q&A’s with inspirational women in film.
For more information visit the website or email submissions@birds-eye-view.co.uk
nga-zine-fair
Saturday, October 30 · 11:00am – 4:00pm
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Parkes Place
Canberra, Australia
A zine fair of over 30 zinesters from around Australia at the nation’s capital, in conjunction with the NGA’s mighty launch of their street art exhibition, Space Invaders.
Organised by the Sticky Institute:
Sticky Institute are ardent defenders of zine culture based in Melbourne’s underground. We are home to the docucenter III C3100 copier, a typewriter pool, badge machines, long arm staplers, and an online mail order department. Go nuts.
Pash is the presenter of Very Necessary on PBS FM 106.7, a show about girls getting their groove on, in the musical sense. On 14th October, 2010 at The Order of Melbourne, Pash will be presenting a night of Melbourne’s best in female hip hop and electronic music.
Catch Multicultural women’s DJ collective Lady Fingers serving up a cross-cultural blend of beats, including bhangra, hip-hop, reggae, electronic, soul, funk, and more, plus local electro dance duo Girl Brigade, hip hop nusoul glitch beat team Syreneyiscreamy & Able, Hailey Cramer and global party stylings from Ms Butt.
There’ll also be provocative projections courtesy of VJ Inxile, and Pash will add further spice as she launches her highly anticipated debut album.
If you are passionate about women in music and love the sounds of community radio then you will find it very necessary to attend this special event. Funds raised will go to PBS, Melbourne’s number one supporter of underrepresented and diverse music.
7pm sharp. $7 entry.
The Order of Melbourne
2/ 401 swanston street
Melbourne, Australia
BLOODBATH
http://bumpp.net/
Saturday 9 Oct 6.30pm – doors open 5.30pm
Tickets through ticketek
BLOODBATH is a collaborative distributed artwork by Bump Projects in association with the Sydney Roller Derby League. BLOODBATH features five artists – Linda Dement, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Kate Richards, Francesca da Rimini and Sarah Waterson. At an all girl flat track roller derby game, sensors on the helmets of players feed data to the five artworks, generating digital elaborations of the moves and
collisions on track.
All girl flat track roller derby is a raucous, irreverent game that usually results in minor injuries. It runs in bouts of 30 minutes, each bout being made up of 2 minute ‘jams’ in which one member of each team, the ‘jammer’, attempts to pass the pack and so score points.
For Bloodbath, the packs also have a virtual life, from robust wireless sensors (wiimotes) installed on the heads of players, collision, speed and rotational information is sent to a server and from there, on to data driven artworks. The artists are making their artworks live on site, in real-time, and these are projected as the game is played out.
Bloodbath builds on investigations into our human tendency towards, and attraction to, violence – these trajectories creating technological elaborations of our delighted riveted engagement in battle and its dynamics of attack, revenge, defence, collapse, victory, deceit and subterfuge. The artists will be working with digital manifestations of speeding flesh and programmed digital activity. These works both follow and break the rules, embodying the generative repercussions of a fracas.
BLOODBATH
http://bumpp.net/
Artists: Linda Dement, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Kate Richards, Francesca da Rimini, Sarah Waterson
Producers: Linda Dement, Kate Richards
Original idea: Linda Dement
Technical development: Mr. Snow, House of Laudanum
Publicity: Deborah Turnbull, New Media Curation
